Book Review: János Fiala-Butoria, Implementing the Right to Decide under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Supporting the Legal Capacity of All Persons with Disabilities (Bloomsbury, 2025, 167 pp, hardback / ebook, £81.00 / £64.80) I should start this review with a confession. I asked to be provided with this book for review out of a slight sense of duty, so as to keep myself abreast of the literature in this area. 

Following the Supreme Court’s Karshan decision and new Revenue guidelines published on 11 September 2025, employers who misclassified employees as…

The organisation at the hearing was very apologetic towards the complainant.

The largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide says that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

There has been a significant decline in the use of restrictive practices - such as seclusion and physical restraint - across Irish mental health services in the past seven years.

Alleged misclassification of media workers by RTÉ is a major legacy issue

Overcrowding, violence — and a mentally-ill female prisoner who 'had not had access to a shower for four days' — among issues raised by the Council of Europe Committee on the Prevention of Torture

It's been a busy few weeks in the AI and copyright beat, and while I've been following all of the developments closely, I haven't had the time to react to everything in the blog. However, with two first decisions handed down in the US, and one in the UK expected soon, it is a perfect time to start looking at the subject from a long-term perspective.

The X owner thinks that artificial general intelligence is ‘smarter than the smartest human’. But it’s not as clever as he thinks it is

The role of copyright rules in the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to dominate legal discussions in 2025. With new case law, legislative initiatives, and regulatory developments u...

Overall, the centre was found to be 60% compliant in 2024, down from 67% in 2023, 71% in 2022, and 74% in both 2021 and 2020.

In all the debate about the Mental Health Act, it is troubling that the discussion has been among doctors and commentators — and not those directly impacted, write Jennifer Hough and Liam MacGabhann

The Irish Medical Organisation is expected to criticise criteria for involuntary admission, timing of patients’ psychosocial assessment, and care plan regulations

Live stream of public Oireachtas committee meeting in committee room 2

Spivak v Ukraine [2025] ECHR 136 is a very helpful and important reminder of the increasing focus that Strasbourg is placing upon non-consensual psychiatric admission and treatment.  It is particul…

On 8 June 2025 the Australian Broadcasting Company published an interesting in-depth article by investigative reporter Geraden Cann on the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) without consent in …

The Mental Health Commission is consulting people who use the services, family members, carers and people working in the sector

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Introduction Judgment was delivered by Hyland J on the 17th February 2025 in a Court of Appeal case, concerning an appeal from a High Court decision relating to an Article 40.4 inquiry into the lawful...

A UK court has made a decision defining genders which has put it at odds with a less noticed, more important, decision from the CJEU. This is the Gist.