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Pictured (l-r): Solicitors Róisín Lawler, Eamon Lyons, Grace Toher, Maria Hayes and Darragh Killeen Dublin firm LK Shields has congratulated five of its lawyers on their recent admission to the roll of solicitors.

The UK government has rebuffed calls from barristers to consider reform of non-jury trials in Northern Ireland, the Belfast Telegraph reports. Under the Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Act 2007, the Director of Public Prosecutions can issue a certificate that any trial on indictment should b

James Bridgeman Irish barrister James Bridgeman SC has been elected global president of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb).

Leo Varadkar The Department of Justice is facing reform to separate policing and security into two internal wings, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has announced.

Patrick Corrigan Amnesty International has expressed "deep concern" over revelations that the UK government has lost historic documents that may include crucial evidence of human rights violations during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Sir Brendan Barber Employment tribunal claims increased sharply in the months following the UK Supreme Court's ruling that the fees were unlawful, it has emerged.

Less than 15 per cent of people convicted in the District Court of possessing child pornography receive a prison sentence, according to figures released to and published by The Irish Times. Figures released under a Freedom of Information request show that just 26 of 174 cases (15 per cent) finalised

Mr Justice George Birmingham The Association of Judges of Ireland (AJI) called last year for the establishment of an independent body to govern judges' pay, terms and conditions, the Irish Independent reports.

Carole Howard An Alliance Party councillor has been appointed High Sheriff of Belfast for 2018, marking the first time the ceremonial post has been held by someone other than a unionist since 2000.

Drones have been flown into Scottish prisons 22 times in the past two years, figures obtained under a Freedom of Information request show. On five of those occasions, the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were found to contain drugs and mobile phones upon interception, The Scotsman reports.

Tech giant Apple is facing criminal prosecution in France over allegations that its phones, by slowing down as they get older, fall foul of France's "planned obsolescence" laws. In 2015, France became the first country in the world to introduce legislation criminalising "planned obsolescence" - wher

Photo credit: By Tomisti - work by uploader, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Supreme Court of Finland has begun publishing part of its precedents as summaries in English.

Germany's Federal Constitutional Court has upheld a court ruling that a 96-year-old man is fit to serve a four-year jail sentence for his role in the murder of 300,000 people at Auschwitz. Oskar Gröning, known as the "Bookkeeper of Auschwitz", was an accountant at the death camp, where he sorted an

An application challenging the legality of the Regulations made to change the way in which tariffs would be calculated under the RHI Scheme has been dismissed in the High Court. Justice Colton concluded that the balance which the Regulations strike between the public and private interests is a fair

Mr Justice Brian Cregan The judge leading the inquiry into the sale of Siteserv has called for lawyers' pay to be doubled to €1,500 per day, The Irish Times reports.