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The Supreme Court has, by a 3:2 majority, held that the adoption of two children by their aunt in their birth country may be recognisable in Ireland ...

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan will seek Cabinet permission this autumn for the setting up of an implementation group to carry forward a strategy ...

Families of women who die during childbirth will receive legal aid under Government plans for mandatory inquests into maternal deaths. Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan will bring a ...

Mr Justice Michael Peart The latest volume of the Hibernian Law Journal will be launched by Mr Justice Michael Peart at a special ceremony at the Law ...

A detective convicted of harassing a State solicitor by sending her abusive letters and emails is still receiving full pay in prison, the Sunday Independent reports. Eve ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) will assume jurisdiction over the crime of aggression from tomorrow, the twentieth anniversary of the ICC's founding Rome Statute. The fourth "core" ...

Police and prosecutors disclosed evidence in less than 60 per cent of a sample of hundreds of criminal cases, according to a new report. The Times reports ...

Telling migrants to "go away" is racist, Italy's highest court has ruled. The Court of Cassation ruled on Thursday that telling non-EU foreigners to get out of ...

A man who was convicted of rape and indecent assault of a girl in the 1970s has had his convictions quashed in the Court of Appeal following ...

Pictured (l-r): Cormac O'Regan and Mairead Ni Laoire Cork firm JRAP O'Meara Solicitors has announced the appointment of two new partners to its commercial property and litigation ...

Just under half of recommendations made during pre-legislative scrutiny are taken on board by ministers, according to a new Oireachtas report. The Library & Research Service (L&RS) ...

A contractor in Longford has been fined €250 following a successful prosecution for breaching the Private Security Services Act. Seamus Flynn, trading as Flynn Electrical & Security ...

A play based on the story of a runaway slave and the road to abolition of the practice in Britain has featured on BBC Radio 4. May ...