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The UK Supreme Court has confirmed it will rule on a landmark challenge to Northern Ireland's abortion laws next Thursday 7 June. The Northern Ireland Human Rights ...

A man who claimed Romania allowed the United States Central Intelligence Agency to transport him to a detention site under its secret extraordinary rendition programme and subject ...

A youth has been sentenced to five years in prison for his role in an 11-hour-long “rampage” at a Oberstown Children's Detention Campus during which a roof ...

Brendan McGuigan A new report on the resettlement of offenders has called on the Northern Ireland Prison Service and Probation Board Northern Ireland (PBNI) to build on ...

St Patrick’s Archdiocesan Trust have been granted an order for possession of a seven-and-a-half-acre field in Newry which was being used by a woman to keep ponies. ...

The Children's Rights Alliance (CRA) has called for new adoption legislation to be expedited to help people whose adopted parents were unlawfully registered as their birth parents. ...

The Government has approved the appointment of retired Circuit Court Judge Barry Hickson to head up a proposed Commission of Investigation into the handling of child sexual ...

Workers posted temporarily to another EU country must get equal pay for equal work in the same place under new rules agreed by the European Parliament yesterday. ...

The University of Dundee, a favourite choice of Northern Ireland law students, has been ranked third for law in this year’s Guardian University guide. Northern Ireland's Lord ...

The Home Office has increased the fees to renounce British citizenship after a surge in people adopting the citizenship of other EU countries, The Independent reports. Ministers ...

The "professional ethos and culture" of law firms discourages men from taking parental leave, leading to gender inequality in the legal profession, an international study has found. ...