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Mr Justice Frank Clarke The Chief Justice of Ireland, Mr Justice Frank Clarke, has spoke of his hope that proposals for reform of the Irish courts could go before the Government before the next budget.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has an "open mind" on the structure of the new Judicial Appointments Commission so long as it has a lay chair and a lay majority, The Irish Times reports.

Three lawyers have been appointed to the Board of the Charities Regulatory Authority. The appointment of Máire McMahon, Niamh Cahill and Ercus Stewart SC have brought the Board to gender balance for the first time.

Deirdre Malone The Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) has voiced concern about the extent to which solitary confinement is being used to deal with drugs-related violence at Mountjoy Prison.

A man who assaulted a solicitor in an unprovoked one-punch attack, causing catastrophic brain injuries, has been jailed for six-and-a-half years. Kevin Geraghty, 38, spent a year-and-a-half in hospital, had to learn how to walk again and has not been able to work since the assault, Dublin Circuit Cr

Legislation establishing an Assisted Human Reproduction Regulatory Authority to oversee fertility clinics and treatments will go before the Dáil within months, the Irish Independent reports. Dr Tony Holohan, chief medical officer in the Department of Health, yesterday outlined the general scheme of

Lisa Hart Shepherd Male clients are half as likely to nominate a woman lawyer for a global database of top lawyers, according to new analysis.

Organisms obtained by mutagenesis are, in principle, exempted from the obligations in the Genetically Modified Organisms Directive, according to Advocate General Bobek. Member states are free to adopt measures regulating such organisms provided they respect overarching principles of EU law.

FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty Civil society is under threat in many parts of the EU, according to a new report by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA).

Sarah Burrows Belfast-based Cleaver Fulton Rankin Solicitors (CFR) has become an associate member of Social Enterprise NI, the representative body for social enterprises and social entrepreneurs.

Pictured (l-r): Trevor Lockhart, CBI Chair; Angela McGowan, CBI director; Paul Drechsler, CBI President; and Gareth Planck, Partner, Eversheds Sutherland Eversheds Sutherland hosted a private dinner in Belfast for leading members of the CBI, including president Paul Drechsler.

The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has been granted an order lifting the automatic suspension of the execution of a contract for interpretation services with a third party, which was imposed by European Regulations as a result of a challenge by an unsuccessful tenderer for the public con

The European Court of Human Rights is launching a series of five new factsheets. The factsheets concern case law on the themes of access to the Internet and the freedom to receive and impart information; deprivation of citizenship; legal professional privilege; and accompanied and unaccompanied migr

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan The Government made a conscious decision not to "narrowly" interpret the Supreme Court ruling on asylum seekers' right to work, Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has said.

Séamus Woulfe Attorney General Séamus Woulfe has been asked to advise the Government on the legal risks of not replacing the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution if voters decide to repeal it in the forthcoming referendum, The Times reports.