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The Law Society of England and Wales has succeeded in overturning cuts to legal aid payments for document-heavy Crown Court cases. In a strongly-worded judgment, Lord Justice Leggatt and Mrs Justice Carr DBE quashed changes to the Litigators Graduated Fee Scheme (LGFS) introduced in December 2017.

A man called the police after a kangaroo crashed through his living room window in the middle of the night and upended his home. Instead of being arrested for breaking and entering, the young kangaroo was bundled away by animal rescuers and taken to a nearby shelter.

A man whose wife committed suicide the day after she was discharged from hospital for a previous suicide attempt, has been awarded €263,220.81 in the High Court. Finding that the woman had not been afforded an appropriate standard of medical care at University College Hospital Galway, Mr Justic

The Government has published draft legislation to overhaul the law on coroners and provide for mandatory inquests in the case of maternal death. Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan said the "very important" Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018 would amend the Coroners Act 1962 to clarify, strengthen and mod

The High Court sat in a Dublin nursing home yesterday in a legal first, The Irish Times reports. Mr Justice Peter Kelly, president of the High Court, agreed to the unusual sitting to hear testimony from a man at the centre of a capacity dispute.

Maynooth University Law Department has announced the appointment of Dr Ollie Bartlett from the University of Liverpool, who is taking up a lectureship in law. Dr Bartlett joined Liverpool as a law lecturer in 2015 and later became deputy director of the Law and Non-Communicable Diseases Unit there.

The new head of the UK armed forces has said he will not allow British soldiers to be "chased by people who are making vexatious claims" related to their conduct in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. General Sir Nick Carter, who was appointed Chief of Defence Staff in March, told journalists in L

Five lawyers are among the Irish team competing in the Hockey Women's World Cup semi-final for the first time ever after their 3-1 victory over India yesterday.

The heads of the Law Societies of England and Wales; Scotland; and Northern Ireland are pictured above in a photo celebrating the first time in which the presidents of the UK's three solicitor bodies are women. (via @LawSocPresident)

The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (Gsoc) has said it has "serious concerns" about the investigation into the 1996 killing of French woman Sophie Toscan du Plantier, but that there is no evidence of high-level corruption by gardaí. The garda watchdog has published its Infor

French lawmakers have approved a new law creating offences around street harassment and child rape. MPs voted in favour of the law on Wednesday night with 92 in favour and none against, though left-wing lawmakers abstained because they felt the law did not go far enough.

A specialist court pilot for handling financial disputes in divorces will be expanded across England and Wales after its initial success, The Brief reports. Sir James Mundy, the most senior family judge in England and Wales, announced that the pilot would be tested in nine more regions after promisi

A judge ordered that a man in court's mouth be duct-taped after he interrupted proceedings a dozen times. Judge John Russo, in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, warned Franklyn Williams, 32, to be quiet at least 12 times over the course of 30 minutes.

A man who pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of a man in Coalisland in October 2015, and to Grievous Bodily Harm with intent on another man, has been sentenced to eleven years' imprisonment with an extended licence period of four years. Ms Justice McBride, sitting in Dungannon Crown Court, heard tha