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Jail terms of under six months are set to be banned in England and Wales under long-term plans announced by Justice Secretary David Gauke. In a landmark ...

New guidelines to be released this week will recognise racial discrimination against people on the basis of their hairstyle, the New York Times reports. The change in ...

A Northern Ireland man has been jailed for stealing a diamond ring – by swallowing it. Ian Campbell, 54, was sentenced to more than eight years' imprisonment for ...

Damages for mental distress in a case brought by the statutory dependants of a woman who died as a result of alleged negligence must be paid only ...

A revised edition of the Green Book, which sets out judicial guidelines on damages in personal injury cases in Northern Ireland, will take effect next week. The ...

The Supreme Court is set to sit in Galway for the first time next month. The court will sit in NUI Galway on 4-6 March, the first ...

A cross-party group of MPs is calling on the UK Government to extend new domestic abuse legislation to Northern Ireland. Stella Creasy, Labour MP for Walthamstow, told ...

The London Irish Lawyers Association (LILA) has announced a new mentoring programme to allow experienced Irish solicitors and barristers working in London to provide careers advice to ...

John Stalker, the police officer who led a landmark investigation into "shoot-to-kill" allegations in Northern Ireland, has passed away at the age of 79. As Deputy Chief ...

Toni Fitzgerald-Gunn, associate partner at Worthingtons Solicitors in Belfast, writes on the recent equal pay case involving supermarket Asda. Long before the Equal Pay (NI) Act 1970 ...

A full obituary of solicitor Moya Quinlan, the first woman to be elected president of the Law Society of Ireland, has been published by The Irish Times. ...

Young offenders helped deliver two kid goats at Hydebank Wood College as part of the facility's animal therapy initiative. The Saanen-crossed pygmy kids were delivered by two ...

Unions have criticised the involvement of private companies in the justice sector following the collapse of three community rehabilitation companies (CRCs). Working Links, a private provider of probation ...

A couple whose bonsai trees were stolen – including a prized specimen worth more than $127,000 – took to social media to give the thieves instructions on ...