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David Craig A Northern Ireland teacher represented by Johnsons Solicitors has won a preliminary stage in a landmark libel action against Facebook.

A new English-speaking commercial court is to be established in Brussels, the Belgian government has announced. The Brussels International Business Court (BIBC) would hear pleadings and deliver judgments in English, with judges coming from the county’s appeal court.

An employment solicitor at Belfast-based MKB Law was named a finalist in the UK-wide Inspirational Women in Law Awards.

A detective who was found guilty of harassing a State solicitor by sending her abusive letters and emails is facing an “inevitable” custodial sentence, a judge has said. In Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on Friday, Judge Melanie Greally ordered that Eve Doherty, 50, be placed into custody next Mo

The UK government is planning to scrap in part the ban on prisoner voting, 12 years after a judgment from the European Court of Human Rights ruled it was unlawful. Those serving sentences of less than a year will be allowed to go home to vote according to plans circulated to ministers by Justice Sec

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is to apologise to gay and bisexual men convicted of sexual offences which have now been abolished. Ms Sturgeon (pictured) will make a statement on 7 November when new legislation automatically pardoning those affected and removing the offences from their cr

The Bank of Ireland has been granted judgment of €970,000 outstanding for a mortgage loan granted to a couple in 2006. In a heavily critical judgment, Mr Justice Noonan emphasised that there was no tort of reckless lending, and found that the couple had no bona fide defence.

Mr Justice Seán Ryan, president of the Court of Appeal, has warned that the relatively new court is "coming to the point of being overwhelmed" by cases, The Irish Times reports. However, he also said he was "confident, despite the many other demands on State resources, the Government will put effec

Stuart Gilhooly The president of the Law Society of Ireland has said the country's legal profession is "in a boom - or close to a boom anyway".

Evan O'Dwyer Permanent TSB has settled with a victim of the tracker mortgage scandal in what appears to be the first successful case, The Irish Times reports.

The Bar of Ireland yesterday presented its annual Human Rights Award to Catherine Corless, the amateur historian who played a pivotal role in exposing the mass grave at a Mother and Baby home in Tuam.

http://twitter.com/LawSocIreland/status/923845424859017216 Ballots in the elections for the Council of the Law Society of Ireland are being counted under the supervision of its scrutineers.

Over a dozen solicitors and barristers have completed the Institute of Professional Legal Studies' (IPLS) mediation training course.

A personal assistant who stole from her barrister bosses for over a decade has been jailed for four years, the Irish Independent reports. Siobhán Maguire, 47, stole €1,187,616 from barristers Michael Delaney and Jeremy Maher over a 14-year period while working as their shared secretary and person