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Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales has criticised the UK government over delays in protecting the UK’s £25.7 billion a year legal industry ahead of Brexit.

A group representing sex workers in Ireland has asked for an urgent meeting with Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan following a spate of knife attacks on sex workers. The Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) says it believes Ireland's new sex purchase laws have contributed to at least ten knife attack

In response to a certified question for appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Supreme Court has held that it is not a correct principle of sentencing to treat as mitigation the fact that an accused person who is convicted following a trial did not give false evidence. Delivering the una

Ken Murphy The Law Society of Ireland has expressed concerns that protections outlined in the Government’s Domestic Violence Bill are inadequate, inflexible and fail to address UN recommendations on legal aid contributions in domestic violence cases.

Andrea McIlroy-Rose A presence in Dublin is "particularly important" to Pinsent Masons in the wake of Brexit, the head of the firm's Belfast office has said.

Senator John O'Mahony The Department of Justice is continuing to prepare a draft bill to transfer the administration of criminal legal aid to the Legal Aid Board.

A man who made threats to a member of staff at the office of Partners at Law Solicitors in Dún Laoghaire has been jailed for two and a half years. Staff at the office told gardaí Joseph McKeon, 41, was saying “crazy stuff” and threatened one woman that he would “break her jaw and blow her he

The vast majority of public sector workers believing whistleblowing is supported in their organisations, according to a survey by William Fry.

A lawyer for a construction company director, wanted in the UK over his role in a £5 million (about €5.8 million) tax fraud, has argued that Brexit leaves his client in a “legal limbo”. Thomas Joseph O'Connor, 49, was sentenced in his absence to four-and-a-half years in prison for defrauding

Saudi Arabia has made a multimillion dollar effort to export Wahhabism across the Islamic world and the West, including the UK, where it has funded mosques and Islamic educational institutions which in turn host Islamist extremist preachers and facilitate the distribution of extremist literature, ac

Arran Dowling-Hussey Barrister Arran Dowling-Hussey was named Ireland's lawyer of the year at Finance Monthly's 2017 Global Awards.

Proposed Fourth Floor break out space with glazed rooflight Redevelopment plans for the Inner Temple will meet the "needs and demands of training for barristers" the Inn has said.

Two women who were forced to work in Magdalen laundries have been granted an order of certiorari, quashing the refusal of the Minister for Justice and Equality to admit them to a government compensation scheme. Mr Justice Michael White refused to grant relief on the basis that the decision was unrea

Barristers in the trial of former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick were paid record fees, The Irish Times reports. Senior counsel for the prosecution and defence were paid €3,000 a day, over three times the standard rate of €858 a day for senior counsel in Circuit Court trials.

Keystone Law has announced two significant senior hires to its Belfast office, just four months after the UK firm expanded into Northern Ireland through its merger with McMahon McKay.