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A judge in the High Court in Belfast has mounted a strong defence of the rule of law as he criticised an alleged vigilante who terrorised a woman who he accused of being a paedophile. Sir Richard McLaughlin said the courts were the only place for the law to be administered, The Irish News reports.

A student from Belfast is seeking permission from the High Court in Dublin to challenge the State’s failure to allow citizens living in Northern Ireland to vote in the abortion referendum. The matter came before Mr Justice Charles Meenan in the judicial review list this week, who adjourned the ap

David Gauke David Gauke, the first solicitor to hold the post of Lord Chancellor, has called on more solicitors to consider a career as a judge, The Brief reports.

Neasa Quigley Carson McDowell has acted as lead legal advisers to the shareholders of Lowe Rental in relation to "one of the largest ever private equity deals in Northern Ireland".

Dentons, the world's largest law firm, has announced combinations with seven other law firms. It will combine with Hamilton, Harrison & Mathews in Kenya; Mardemootoo Solicitors and Balgobin Chambers in Mauritius; Dinner Martin in the Cayman Islands and Delany Law in the Eastern Caribbean, Hanafi

The law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers leak is to close down. Mossack Fonseca, 11.5 million of whose files were leaked during the investigation into offshore finances, will close its remaining offices by the end of this month, according to a statement obtained by the the International Conso

Facebook has been blocked from using British citizens’ WhatsApp data outwith the app itself. The tech giant announced in 2016 that it planned to use data from the chat app to show more relevant adverts and provide better friend suggestions to users within Facebook.

Russian authorities are systematically violating the rights of political activists through arbitrary arrests and detentions in a fierce crackdown ahead of the presidential elections on Sunday, Amnesty International said today. Using a law on public assemblies, authorities have deliberately targeted

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan The third annual report of the Independent Oversight Authority for the Garda Fixed Charge Processing System (FCPS) Cancellation Policy has been published.

A man who lodged a cheque to Danske Bank, which was dishonoured after he obtained a draft of €63,000 from the account in which he had lodged it, has lost an appeal against an order permitting the planitiff to amend their statement of claim to include an affidavit supporting damages for unjust enri

A man has been cleared of murdering another man he found in his home by stabbing in the first murder case defended under the Criminal Law (Defence and the Dwelling) Act 2011. Martin Keenan, 20, had pleaded not guilty to murdering 33-year-old Wesley Mooney at St Joseph's Park halting site on 5 June 2

Brexit risks breaching the Good Friday Agreement without the urgent implementation of "safeguarding measures", according to the human rights commissions in both jurisdictions. The joint committee of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) and the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commissi

Pictured (l-r): Maureen Lennon, international fundraising director at The Hope Foundation; Law Society of Ireland President Michael Quinlan; and Pat Doyle, CEO of the Peter McVerry Trust This year's Calcutta Run legal fundraiser has set a fundraising target of €300,000 to bring its 20-year total t

https://vimeo.com/259323801 William Fry has launched a new initiative to explain the upcoming EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the Irish language.

Doctors in England and Wales face prosecution for manslaughter where they have made "momentary errors", the Medical Protection Society (MPS) has claimed in calling for a change in the law. The society, which helps doctors with ethical and legal problems that arise from their clinical practice, criti