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Over €1.5 million was paid into the poor box in Irish courts last year, a 19 per cent increase on the previous year, The Irish Times reports. Hundreds of charities benefited from the €1,553,609 collected in the District Courts in 2016, according to the Courts Service of Ireland.

Lady Hale Deputy President of the UK Supreme Court, Lady Hale, has stressed the importance of diversity in the judiciary in a lecture to the Constitutional Law Summer School in Belfast.

Professor Carl Baudenbacher A top EU judge has laid out a plan that would see the UK retaining access to the single market without being answerable to the Court of Justice after Brexit.

A statue of US Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney, who wrote the landmark pro-slavery Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling in 1857, has been removed from the grounds of Maryland's state legislature. The 19th Century court ruling held that "a negro, whose ancestors were imported into this country, and sol

A man who sought a declaration that his marriage in London was valid under the law of Northern Ireland has had his application refused by Mr Justice O’Hara, sitting in the High Court in Belfast. Finding that the recognition of his marriage as a civil partnership in Northern Ireland was not a viola

Mrs Justice Susan Denham Ireland's most senior judges criticised the Government's reform of judicial appointments in a previously-unreleased letter sent to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in June, The Irish Times reports.

A suspended Carlow solicitor has been found in contempt of High Court orders restraining her from acting as or holding herself out as a solicitor. Imelda Leahy, formerly practising as Imelda Leahy & Company Solicitors in County Carlow, was suspended by orders of the President of the High Court d

Couples who failed to challenge Northern Ireland's ban on same-sex marriage in the High Court have discussed taking their cases forward. Solicitor advocate Ciarán Moynagh of McLernon Moynagh Solicitors acts on behalf of an anonymous couple who sought to challenge the laws under which same-sex marri

Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney The Government will seek to have Ibrahim Halawa returned to Ireland regardless of the outcome of his trial, Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney has said.

Pictured (l-r): Brian Speers, vice chair of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association & Kgalalelo Monthe, chair of the Law Society of Botswana The chair of Northern Ireland's Dispute Resolution Service (DRS) has returned from a trip to Botswana.

Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire has been criticised for not backing interim compensation payments to survivors of child abuse.

A former criminal law lecturer and sex offender will be released because of a misinterpretation of the law by the State, The Irish Times reports. The High Court has ordered the release of Juilan Mysercough, 57, due to a flaw in the legality of his detention.

A man who sought to restrain the enforcement of a deportation order made against him, pending the outcome of an application to revoke the order based on him being the father of an EU citizen child, has had his case struck out of the Court of Appeal for want of jurisdiction. Delivering the judgment o

Guy Lougher The head of Brexit advisory at Pinsent Masons said government proposals for a future customs relationship with the EU include interesting suggestions for handling the Irish border.

Joe Charles Delays in Ireland's probate system are causing financial hardship for families of the deceased, Royal London Ireland has claimed.