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Swingeing cuts to legal aid have had a devastating effect on parts of Wales, with some towns having no law centres or legal aid lawyers, The Guardian reports. Before the introduction of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (Laspo) in 2013, legal aid would have accounted for 40 p

A law student who lied that she was a "sex slave" for a senior government lawyer could be jailed after she was convicted of stalking yesterday. Sana Musharraf, 33, a Muslim, said she was afraid she would be killed by Islamists if they learned she lost her virginity to Jason Whiston, 52, deputy direc

An amateur footballer who attacked a referee for giving him two yellow cards has been jailed for six months. The player had already been made subject to a ten-year ban on playing football.

A woman who suffered a blow to the head when she collapsed in the en-suite of her hospital room, has been awarded €63,112 in damages after the High Court found the post-operative care she was given was negligent. Mr Justice Robert Barr rejected the first part of the woman’s claim, in whic

A judge has said he will take a hard line against professional street beggars who fly to Northern Ireland every six weeks on begging shifts. Judge Barney McElholm made his pledge at Derry Magistrates' Court upon sentencing a 30-year-old mother of seven from Bucharest to two months' imprisonment

Law professors at Trinity College Dublin have differed over the question of whether a university newspaper was justified in covertly recording an alleged initiation ceremony to a student society, Independent.ie reports. The University Times said it acted in the public interest and cited the High Cou

Sexual offences rose by 10 per cent last year, new figures show. Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan said the increase came at a time of "significant public focus on sexual assault” with the #MeToo movement.

Joanne Finn looks at the latest fine imposed on search giant Google and how such decisions are affecting market regulation. Google has been levied with yet another antitrust fine (of €1.49 billion) following a European Commission investigation into its advertising business Google AdSense &ndash

Property prices in Dublin city have decreased by an average of €7,500 in the first three months of the year as mortgage finance rules bite, the REA Average House Price Index has found. The price of a three-bed semi-detached house in Dublin city has fallen by -1.7 per cent since the end of

The Cabinet is to finalise the wording of the divorce referendum, to be held in May. Voters will be asked to amend article 41.3.2 of the Constitution to remove the minimum living apart period for spouses seeking a divorce, and replace article 41.3.3 with a provision allowing the Oireachtas to legisl

Lawyers have been reprimanded for using a transgender client's birth name when advising them on a discrimination claim. A leaked document from the Legal Ombudsman shows that a law firm was forced to compensate the client after it used her birth name in correspondence that provided advice on the clai

The UK is in significant violation of the provisions of a European employment charter as a result of offering an inadequate minimum wage and failing to provide workers with legal guarantees to ensure they are remunerated for overtime. A report on the European Social Charter by the European Committee

An army rifleman was reprimanded after going on a killing spree – in a virtual battlefield. In the computer game which soldiers are required to train on, he shot dead a comrade and destroyed vehicles in order to kill others.

The mother of a 28-year-old man who died in a police cell at Lisburn PSNI station has lost an appeal against the decision to dismiss her application for judicial review. In her application, the woman claimed that the reinstatement and redeployment of the PSNI officer who was the custody sergeant on

Arthur Cox has announced the appointment of Orla O'Connor as its next chairperson, marking the first time that a woman has held the law firm's top post.