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The Probation Board for Northern Ireland has officially opened a new office in Omagh, based in the Sperrin Centre alongside justice partner organisations such as the Youth Justice Agency. Probation supervises a number of people on community sentences within the Omagh area to guide their rehabilitati

Health authorities in Norway have been told to respect medical professionals' right to conscientious objection after the country's Supreme Court found in favour of a doctor who refused to administer a procedure that could have resulted in an abortion. In a judgment published yesterday, the court fou

Poland has pushed ahead with the appointment of 27 judges to its Supreme Court bench in spite of pressure from the international legal community and the EU, which believes its judicial reforms are illegal. A spokesperson for President Andrzej Duda said the government was "implementing another stage

An Israeli court has ordered two New Zealand activists to pay more than €10,700 in damages after they persuaded pop singer Lorde to cancel a concert in Tel Aviv. However, legal experts have said the likelihood of the Jerusalem Magistrates' Court judgment being enforced in New Zealand is slim.

The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) was established in 1967, and one of its main goals was to achieve 'one man, one vote' in Northern Ireland. The plural voting system, which gave business owners and university degree holders an extra vote, had been abolished in the rest of the UK

A mafia hitman testified against his former colleagues is suing a TV network over a drama which revealed his past to his teenage daughter. Pasquale di Filippo spent ten years in jail after admitting to four murders, but helped convict other mafia bosses and was granted a new identity on his release.

A man whose surrender is sought by the United Kingdom on foot of a European Arrest Warrant has not shown that there is a substantial risk to his rights in view of Brexit. Stating that the Court of Justice of the European Union had already answered ‘almost identical’ questions of European

Beauchamps has announced the appointment of six new partners, bringing the Dublin-based firm's total partner count to 32. The new partners are Richard Stowe, Jacinta Niland, Anne Doyle, Patrick Nyhan, David Gunn and Malachy Kearney.

Mr Justice Michael Twomey has accepted an invitation to act as judge-in-residence of the Hibernian Law Journal, succeeding Mr Justice Max Barrett. Mr Justice Twomey, who prior to his appointment to the High Court in 2016 practised as a solicitor, will serve in the role for two years.

The Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) has welcomed "significant improvements" in care at Oberstown Children Detention Campus, particularly in the areas of healthcare, fire safety and single separation. According to the latest Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) inspection report, the numbe

The Equality Commission for Northern Ireland has voiced concern that yesterday's UK Supreme Court judgment may "raise uncertainty about the application of equality law in the commercial sphere". The commission had supported a man, Gareth Lee, in taking action against Ashers Baking Company for refusi

Arbitration Ireland has announced the appointment of Rose Fisher as its first executive director. Ms Fisher brings over 17 years of experience working for The Bar of Ireland, where she most recently worked as events and administration manager.

The criminal bar is "ready" if the promises the UK government made to it this year over revised fee rates for Crown Court work are not honoured, the head of their body has said. Carmelite Chambers' Chris Henley QC, 51, the new chairman of the 4,000-member Criminal Bar Association (CBA), to

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has been asked for an advisory opinion clarifying the obligations of authorities in France, where surrogacy is illegal, to transcribe the foreign birth certificate of a child born through surrogacy. France's Court of Cassation, the highest court of appeal f