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Gerry Liston, solicitor and legal officer for Sadaka (The Ireland Palestine Alliance) and the Global Legal Action Network, writes on the legality of the Occupied Territories Bill ahead of its return to the Seanad tomorrow. On July 12th, the Irish flag flew outside the City Hall in Ramallah, Palestin

A new report into conditions at Maghaberry Prison has found "significant progress" three years after the facility was found to be unsafe and unstable. Findings of the latest inspection were published today by Brendan McGuigan, Chief Inspector of Criminal Justice in Northern Ireland, and Peter Clarke

Lord Sumption has warned that a functioning justice system is "not discretionary" but is "fundamental to the existence of the state and to our existence as a civil society", and described the public's scepticism towards the presumption of innocence as a "travesty". The UK Supreme Court justice, who

The Employment Law Association of Ireland (ELAI) welcomed senior judges and lawyers to its annual dinner in the Westbury Hotel, sponsored by Lewis Silkin.

Twenty years after the establishment of a full-time European Court of Human Rights guaranteeing a right of individual petition to over 800 million Europeans, the President of the court Guido Raimondi hailed the establishment of the court in 1998 as a landmark in the development of international hum

Russia violated the article 11, 13 and 14 rights of seven LGBT activists by refusing them permission to hold LGBT rallies, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found. Handing down its judgment in Alekseyev and Others v. Russia, the court said the case was no different from the case of Alek

The ByrneWallace staff choir, "Legally Sound", were among performers who took to the stage of the National Concert Hall in Dublin to raise cash for charity.

Lawyers in William Fry's asset management and investment funds team have presented a €750 cheque to the Dublin Simon Community following their annual charity Bake Off.

A man who laughed and swore at police who couldn't find drugs on him was later found to be hiding a bag of cocaine in his penis. James Mason, 21, told officers "f**k off, you're not searching me" and then, after a search, "ha ha, told you I had f**k all on us, you mugs".

A woman who had her application for criminal injury compensation refused due to the "same household rule" has succeeded in the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal. Dismissing the cross-appeal brought by the Department of Justice, the Court said that there was "no justifiable, rational or lawful ground

Mullingar Courthouse has reopened after a €14 million redevelopment, the final piece in a €140 million project to deliver seven modern regional courts.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has brought into effect new legislation aimed at tackling money laundering, completing Ireland's transposition of the EU's Fourth AML Directive. The minister signed two statutory instruments commencing the provisions of the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Ter

The impact of Brexit on migrants living and seeking residence in Northern Ireland was one of the themes of a Belfast conference hosted by the Immigration Practitioners' Group in the Law Society of Northern Ireland.

Mr Justice Anthony Collins, one of two Irish judges on the EU General Court, has welcomed the "good news" that EU rules designed to protect the rule of law "are working".

Irish businesses are optimistic about GPDR compliance six months on from its introduction in May 2018, according to a new report from McCann FitzGerald and Mazars. As many as 88 per cent of Irish businesses say they are confident that they have correctly interpreted their GDPR obligations, while 84