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A man who avoided imprisonment for growing cannabis while studying law at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) has cast doubt on An Garda Síochána's approach to drug valuations. Cian Ó Concubhair, now a stipendiary lecturer in law at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, told T

The right to a civil partnership will be extended to different-sex couples in England and Wales, Prime Minister Theresa May has announced. In June, the Supreme Court said the existing law on civil partnerships was incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.

A new start-up has announced plans to launch a cannabis-based treatment for anxious and depressed pets. Weedentity will take advantage of recently relaxed Italian laws to sell a new cannabis oil product aimed at cats and dogs.

AIB have been granted an Isaac Wunder Order, restraining a man from acting as a “McKenzie Friend”. Providing the relief sought by AIB, Mr Justice Robert Haughton granted, inter alia, a permanent injunction restraining the man ‘from advising, participating in, assisting or

It is crucial that alternative arrangements are made with Britain for the extradition of criminals ahead of Brexit, the Director of Public Prosecutions has said. Claire Loftus said that the problem was particularly acute given the shared border with the North and the pursuit of prosecutions against

Proposals for disciplinary hearings against judges to be kept secret have been described as “probably untenable” by the Chief Justice. The Government's Judicial Council Bill would see inquiries take place for the first time to look at complaints against judges which fail to satisfy the l

Some criminal cases are taking more than two years to be dealt with by courts in Northern Ireland, according to new figures. The average time to process a criminal case in 2017/18 was 162 days while there is an 802-day wait to take summons cases through the Crown Court, up 3.4 per cent on last year,

Disabled people are to be invited to work on a committee to monitor Ireland's implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission will issue invitations to serve on the committee.

A cap on lawyers' fees should be considered, the Chief Justice has said. In an interview with the Irish Independent, Chief Justice Frank Clarke said that the cost of going to court was a barrier to justice and that some people were caught in a "poverty trap" in that they were unable to fund litigati

A tip-line is being launched by the Garda Anti-Corruption Unit to deal with bribery and corruption allegations after fewer complaints than expected were received following its creation last year, The Irish Times reports. Members of the public can leave messages on the line which will then be evaluat

Andy Wightman and others asked the Court of Session to make a judgment that Article 50 can be revoked unilaterally and unconditionally by the UK Parliament. The Court of Session has now agreed to refer this question to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), the only court that can decide this matter a

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Edinburgh-headquartered Tesco Bank £16,400,000 for “failing to exercise due skill, care and diligence in protecting its personal current account holders against a cyber attack” following the major assault on its sy

A magistrate who provided a character reference for a defendant in a criminal case in which he was involved has been reprimanded. Zahur Akhtar, of the Black Country Bench, is among seven magistrates and judges to be disciplined or face disqualification in the past month, The Times reports.

A group of people who thought they had survived the Great Tribulation, a period of suffering that Evangelical Christians believe precedes the Second Coming, and who kidnapped their neighbours in order to protect them from demons, were found naked in an SUV they had crashed into a ditch as they attem

A man who was 17-years-old when he was shot in the face while attending a civil rights march in Derry on 30 January 1972 has been awarded £193,000 in compensation. The man was one of 28 innocent people who were shot by soldiers on Bloody Sunday, 13 of whom were killed or mortally wounded and a