Music star Shakira is facing prosecution in Spain for allegedly avoiding €14.5 million in taxes between 2012 and 2014. The singer - made famous in Europe by her record-breaking hit "Hips Don't Lie" - allegedly used 14 shell companies to hide income while a Spanish resident.
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A 21-year-old man who had 33 previous convictions when he was sentenced to three years imprisonment for two burglaries has had his sentence increased after the Director of Public Prosecutions argued that the sentences should be reviewed on grounds of undue leniency. Finding that the overall sentence
The Law Society of Ireland has issued a harsh condemnation of "the violent actions of vigilantes" following reports of an attack on private security guards in Co Roscommon. Up to 50 men allegedly arrived at a recently repossessed house in Falsk on Sunday morning and attacked private security guards
Dublin-based Philip Lee has hosted a drinks reception in London to mark the official opening of the law firm's first office in the UK.
Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan will today set out the Government's four-year implementation plan for the recommendations of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland. Mr Flanagan will launch the Policing Service for the Future plan alongside Garda Commissioner Drew Harris in Kevin Stree
Northern Ireland solicitor Norville Connolly has taken up a new post in Afghanistan as deputy executive director of an anti-corruption NGO. Mr Connolly, a dual-qualified solicitor who has practised north and south of the Irish border since the 1970s, has taken up the leading role with Integrity Watc
Lawyers have argued before the Court of Appeal that the constitutional right not to testify against one's spouse should extend beyond society's 1992 definition of the "nuclear family". The case concerns a Circuit Court ruling on whether two women could be compelled to give evidence against their par
An expert on concealed pregnancies has called for the re-examination of a law criminalising women who secretly give birth to babies who don't survive, The Times reports. Dr Sylvia Murphy Tighe, a lecturer at University of Limerick's Department of Nursery and Midwifery, said the Law Reform Commission
Poland has reinstated the 27 Supreme Court judges who were forced to retire under controversial judicial reforms opposed by the European Commission. Legislation reversing the change in the judicial retirement age was signed into law by President Andrzej Duda yesterday after the European Court of Jus
The House of Lords is set to overhaul its disciplinary processes next year to better support complainants in the wake of sexual harassment allegations against Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC, The Times reports. The 82-year-old peer and former barrister resigned from the Lords last week ahead of a vote
In November 1908, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and Margaret Cousins, along with their husbands Francis and James, founded the Irish Women’s Franchise League (IWFL). The primary aim of the IWFL was for women to be afforded the right to vote on the same terms as men, and a particular aim was to guar
Furious parents branded a Christmas grotto Santa Claus a "disgrace" after he ripped off his beard and swore at children. According to reports, the angry St Nick lost his temper after the fire alarm was triggered by a children's rave in the same building.
Rugby players Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding, who were acquitted on counts of rape earlier this year, have had their applications for costs of their defence dismissed in Belfast Crown Court. Emphasising that the myriad of conclusions were for the jury to reach rather than the prosecution, Her Honou
The Law Society of Ireland and The Bar of Ireland persuaded the Personal Injuries Commission (PIC) not to pursue the option of legislation capping personal injuries pay-outs, The Times reports. According to documents released to the newspaper under Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation, PIC chair
The Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) has called on the incoming director-general of the Irish Prison Service (IPS) to maintain "the momentum for prison reform". Caron McCaffrey was last week appointed the next IPS director-general, making her the first woman to lead the prison service.