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A prison officer who sustained a herniated disc in his back in the course of restraining and lifting a prisoner in January 2013, has had his claim dismissed on the grounds that it was statute barred. Granting the State defendants an application to dismiss the claim which was issued by way of plenary

Concerns surrounding the appointment of Garda commissioner Drew Harris have been dismissed by Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan. Mr Flanagan made assurances that the former PSNI deputy chief constable had been vetted, amid criticisms that state security services had been unable to properly do so.

A late disclosure by the Ministry of Defence to an inquest into the Ballymurphy massacre has prompted anger from the families of those killed, the Belfast Telegraph reports. Pádraig Ó Muirigh, solicitor for the families, said that the last minute discovery of a database with details of

New oversight procedures for national security should be introduced following the appointment of former PSNI officer Drew Harris as Garda commissioner, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has said. Mr Harris will be responsible for sensitive matters as well as routine policing and his appoi

A prisoner from Co Down who died in custody has been named as 22-year-old Daniel McConville. Mr McConville, of Mobrief Walk in Lurgan, was due to appear at Craigavon Magistrates Court by video-link on Friday morning, the Belfast Telegraph reports.

The murder of a young woman in 1971 and the men wrongly convicted of killing her is the subject of a new documentary on TG4, the Sunday Independent reports. Close friends Martin Conmey and Dick Donnelly experienced an "unthinkable set of circumstances" when 19-year-old Una Lynskey was killed and Mar

Scottish forensics expert Professor Dame Sue Black has called for the creation of a national database of sex offenders' penises to help tackle sexual crimes. Professor Black said that suspects can be identified by their penises alone and that it is the practice among many to upload such ph

Hundreds of staff in prisons have been caught smuggling drugs, phones and weapons into jails, the Observer reports. A freedom of information request made by the newspaper found that 341 staff across England and Wales had been dismissed, excluded or even convicted or cautioned by police in the past s

An annual gathering of Catholic lawyers has become the subject of a row because of the church's handling of child abuse, The Times reports. Leading figures from Scotland's legal profession gather annually at St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh for the Red Mass, which ushers in the new legal year.

A man has filed an $800,000 lawsuit against a construction firm which he claims fired him after he refused to attend weekly Bible study meetings. Ryan Coleman from Oregon was hired as a painter at Albany-based Dahled Up Construction in October 2017 and discovered on the job that he was required to a

A woman who was employed as a cleaning supervisor at a hospital in Limerick has had her claim for personal injuries remitted to the High Court for a determination on causation and damages, after the Court of Appeal found that her employer was negligent in failing to provide a safe place of work. All

Hundreds of barristers have taken advantage of a debt collection service launched by The Bar of Ireland in 2014, the Irish Independent reports. A company called LawServ was engaged by the regulatory body in October 2014 to help barristers chase solicitor firms for unpaid fees.

The Chief Justice of Ireland, Mr Justice Frank Clarke, and the High Court's designated arbitration judge, Mr Justice David Barniville, are set to launch the New York chapter of Arbitration Ireland next month. The event, designed to highlight the attractiveness of Ireland as a seat for arbitration an

A student who won a gold medal for badminton at the Irish Special Olympics has won compensation after he was refused funding for the final year of a catering skills programme. Adam Smyth, from Lisburn, who has a learning disability, received £2,000 compensation in a settlement made by the Depa

Dozens of prisoners were forced to sleep on the floor in Cloverhill Prison between April and June 2018, Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has confirmed. Mr Flanagan said the prison, as the primary remand prison for the Leinster area, "has recently been affected more significantly in terms of the inc