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Luke Skywalker has been arrested for possession of cannabis following a traffic stop. Officers in Garden Ridge in the US state of Texas pulled over the 19-year-old because his car lacked a front license plate.

A man who was found guilty on charges of rape and indecent assault in 2016, for offences which occurred in the 1970s, has lost an appeal against his conviction. By a 3:2 majority, the Supreme Court concluded that, in light of the strength of the prosecution case and an assessment of potentially miss

Four appointments to the Court of Appeal, High Court, Circuit Court and District Court benches have been agreed by the Government at its final meeting of the year. Mr Justice David Binchy, who was appointed to the High Court in 2014, has been nominated for elevation to the Court of Appeal to fill th

The Bar Council of Ireland has rejected claims that it has "unilaterally" dropped a long-standing undertaking to limit the number of senior counsel involved in personal injury cases. David Mack, head of legal services at the State Claims Agency (SCA), told the Oireachtas justice committee that the B

An Garda Síochána is "under strain" in areas including accommodation, training capacity, bringing in skilled resources, and introducing new ICT systems, the Garda Commissioner has said. Writing in the foreword to the force's annual report for 2018, Commissioner Drew Harris said the str

Legal academics Professor Rory O'Connell and Dr Catherine O'Rourke have been appointed to the Peer Review College (PRC) of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Members of the PRC are involved in reviewing proposals received to the AHRC's various funding schemes and programmes.

A husband and wife have become the first people in Ireland to be convicted of female genital mutilation (FGM). The couple both pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to one court of carrying out an act of FGM on their daughter, then one year old, at an address in Dublin in September 201

Belfast man Brian Keenan, who spent four-and-a-half years as a hostage in Beirut, addressed inmates at Magilligan Prison during a creative writing awards ceremony. Mr Keenan was captured by the Islamic Jihad Organisation over 33 years ago on 11 April 1986 and spent nearly five years in a concrete ce

The latest episode of BBC Radio 4's Women's Hour features women from the legal profession discussing life in the law on the centenary of women being able to enter the profession. Cherie Booth QC, Dana Denis-Smith, founder of the First 100 Years, Abi Silver, a former associate at a city law firm and

Staff at A&L Goodbody have donated over 134 shoeboxes of goods to a Dublin homelessness charity's Christmas appeal.

A bus driver who was sent home after turning up to work in a kilt did not suffer anti-Scottish discrimination, a court has ruled. Bosses at Grand River Transit in Ontario, Canada sent Tracy Macdonnell home after he came to work on a casual Friday in a kilt in tribute to his heritage.

A company established for the purpose of running a Direct Provision centre has lost an appeal against an order to provide security for costs in its action against a hotel owner in Wexford. Finding that the company had failed to establish that the hotel owner refusing to execute the lease prevented t

Major reforms to insurance contracts aimed at making them fairer for consumers have been approved by the Oireachtas. The Consumer Insurance Contracts Bill 2017, introduced as a private member's bill by Sinn Féin finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty TD, is now expected to be signed into law by

Personal data transfers from the European Union to third countries under the standard contractual clauses established by the European Commission are valid, according to an Advocate General of the European Court of Justice. Advocate General Henrik Saugmandsgaard Øe gave his view on issues rais

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has ruled by majority that a secret MI5 policy allowing security service agents to commit serious crimes on UK soil is lawful. In the first-ever dissenting opinions published in the tribunal's 20-year history, two judges set out their disagreement with the 3-2