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The UK government has accepted a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) proposal for a review of press standards in Northern Ireland. The review was dubbed a "Leveson for Northern Ireland" by DUP MP Ian Paisley, but it will not take the form of a statutory inquiry, according to Culture Secretary Matt Hanco

The High Court has directed that legislative changes must be made in order to address a “lacuna” in the Medical Practitioners Act 2007, which meant that the Medical Council of Ireland was unable to intervene in the Health Service Executive regularly appointing consultants who were not registered

Solicitor and banker Basil Geoghegan has been appointed chairman designate of DAA, the operator of Dublin Airport and Cork Airport. Mr Geoghegan (pictured) is a qualified solicitor, having worked with Slaughter and May in London. He holds an LLB from Trinity College Dublin and an LLM from the Europe

A new draft paper on legacy matters which has been circulated by the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) does not include controversial proposals for a statute of limitations for prosecuting ex-soldiers. The UK government suggested last year that it would include such a measure in the consultation documen

A property developer from County Down has become the first person to be convicted for failing to comply with the Contractual Disclosure Facility (CDF) in Northern Ireland. Bartley Murphy, 53, stole more than £422,000 in tax after failing to declare that he built and sold 16 houses in the Racecourse

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) has welcomed Government legislative proposals to protect children from discrimination in admission to schools. The Commission recommended in 2015 and 2016 that the Equal Status Act be amended to give practical effect to the existing right of chi

The UK Supreme Court is hearing the case of an Irish man who was wrongly convicted of attempted rape and is seeking compensation. Victor Nealon, from Dublin, was wrongly convicted in January 1997 and imprisoned until his release in December 2013, when new DNA evidence made his conviction unsafe.

The ambitious reform programme set out by HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) in 2016 is behind schedule and may be unachievable, the National Audit Office (NAO) has warned. In a new report published today, the NAO said the service - which completed the first stage of reforms in September - f

The average house price in Northern Ireland has rose by 6.6 per cent in the past year, according to new research by Ulster University. The university's latest quarterly house price index, produced in partnership with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive and Progressive Building Society, found that

The spring edition of the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly contains new articles on human rights, disability, rape, pornography and state secrecy. The research journal is published four times a year by Queen's University Belfast School of Law.

A leaked Ministry of Justice (MoJ) report has revealed judges' concerns that legal aid cuts are leading to an increase in defendants without legal representation, BuzzFeed News reports. The website has obtained a full 36-page report based on 2015 research into the impact on the criminal justice syst

Irish technology firms raised €332 million in the first quarter of 2018, according to an Irish Venture Capital Association (IVCA) survey published in association with William Fry. The figure represents a 34 per cent increase on the same period last year, when €246.7 million was raised.

A man who was involuntarily detained in a psychiatric unit for 16 months, despite his consultant psychiatrist expressing the view that he had recovered sufficiently to be discharged after 6 months, has been granted a declaration that the section of the Mental Health Act 2001 used to authorise his co

A judge has said it is unfair that fraud cases are coming before the courts four years after they were committed. Judge Patrick Quinn made his comments when sentencing a man who stole €4,300 in 2014 from a small financial services firm that employed him.

The Department of Justice has confirmed that new legislation will be necessary to break a deadlock on prisoner transfer applications caused by a Supreme Court ruling in 2016. Transfer applications to Ireland from prisoners abroad have been on hold since the Supreme Court upheld the High Court's 2014