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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

Eimear Coughlan, solicitor at O'Flynn Exhams Solicitors in Cork, explores recent case law on leases and lender consent. It is settled law that a failure to obtain the bank’s consent to the creation of a lease over mortgaged property renders the lease voidable. A question which recently arose b

A new initiative to drive partnership working between legal professionals in the UK and Nigeria has been announced by Prime Minister Theresa May. The initiative is the latest stage of the Ministry of Justice’s ‘Legal Services are GREAT’ campaign, which aims to promote the UK&r

An anonymous litigant-in-person has been ordered to identify himself to avoid his proceedings against Google in the High Court in London being struck out, the Law Society Gazette reports. The claimant, known only as ABC, has managed to conceal his identity from court staff, the defendant and the jud

Iranian authorities have been condemned over their cruel treatment of jailed British charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has suffered panic attacks in prison and collapsed this week. Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been experiencing the attacks since she was forced to return to Tehran’

The Mediators' Institute of Ireland (MII) held a moment of silence for the speaking clock at the meeting of their Council this week.

The Northern Ireland Prison Service has announced the death in custody of a 22-year-old prisoner at Maghaberry Prison. The prisoner died yesterday morning, Thursday 30 August. His next of kin have been informed.

Criminal conversation gave a man a right of action for damages against anyone who had sexual relations with his wife, and the consent of the wife did not affect his entitlement to sue. It was not necessary that adultery resulted in separation, however if the couple was already separated the man was

Two men who allegedly went on a bin-stealing spree have been caught by police. Kenneth Brooks, 50, and Nicola Weydeveld, 19, were spotted by a security guard with a suspicious number of rubbish bins.

The requirement that a claimant of widowed parent’s allowance must have been married to or have been the civil partner of the deceased unjustifiably discriminates against the survivor and/or the children on the basis of their marital or birth status, justices in the Supreme Court have ruled. T

Martin Hanna, of Francis Hanna & Co Solicitors reflects on the firm founded by his grandfather in light of its victory today at the UK Supreme Court. Today is another historic day in the long history of Francis Hanna & Company Solicitors. Earlier today, the Supreme Court handed down its

A teacher whose application for judicial review was dismissed in limine in the High Court, has had his case remitted to the High Court for a fresh determination. Finding that the High Court judge was incorrect to hold that the matter was moot due to the expiration of the sanction imposed, the Court

Gardaí are looking into several cases in which cybercriminals impersonated solicitors in order to dupe companies and individuals out of substantial sums, the Irish Independent reports. This has happened as many as six times in the past year, according to the head of the Garda National Economi

A Belfast boys' home should be included in official efforts to deal with the legacy of the past, lawyers have said. KRW Law argued that Kincora should be dealt with as part of the NIO's consultation on dealing with the past, which comes to a close next month, the Belfast News Letter reports.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has held by a majority that the Hungarian Supreme Court did not breach a man's right to a free trial by refusing to refer a question to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for a preliminary ruling. However, the ECtHR found that applicant G&aac