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Commissioner Lorna McGregor A greater effort is needed to protect Britain’s position as a global leader in human rights as the development of a new British Bill of Rights, a rise in hate crime in recent years and changes to social security provide an uncertain future for society’s most vulnerabl

A Europe-wide body for judges has suspended the membership of Turkey’s judiciary owing to evidence that it is no longer independent of the country’s executive and legislature. It is a condition of membership of the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary (ENCJ), and for the status of obse

The Court of Appeal has dismissed a claim brought by a woman who fell down the stairs of a double decker operated by Dublin Bus. Delivering the finding of the three-judge Court, Mr Justice Michael Peart found that the woman was “the author of her own misfortune” by letting go of the handrail bef

Jolyon Maugham QC A tax barrister has raised over £70,000 to challenge the Brexit process in the Irish courts.

Decisions about the free movement of EU workers in Northern Ireland should be devolved to the Northern Ireland Executive, according to an influential House of Lords committee. The Lords EU committee has published a report calling for the UK and Irish governments to negotiate a draft bilateral agreem

Gavin Woods Gavin Woods, partner at Arthur Cox, has been elected as president of Arbitration Ireland at the association's AGM.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has welcomed a new European anti-terrorism directive at a meeting with EU justice and home affairs ministers in Brussels.

Ryanair will argue in an English court that claims for compensation over flight delays can only be made against Ryanair in the Irish courts. In April, lawyers for the Dublin-based firm will tell Liverpool County Court that its terms and conditions clearly state disputes must be settled in the Irish

The Law Society of Northern Ireland welcomed Judge Elizabeth McCaffrey and CCBE representative Michael Robinson at an event hosted to mark European Lawyers Day 2016. Judge McCaffrey was appointed as a county court judge in Northern Ireland in September.

Pictured (l-r): Máirtín Ó Muilleoir and Paul Givan Northern Ireland's Communities Minister Paul Givan has launched a consultation on the legislative changes needed to ensure housing associations remain as independent social enterprises.

Pictured (l-r): Krishnan Guru-Murthy with A&L Goodbody's Paul White and Eithne FitzGerald, and Giovanni Amodeo of Mergermarket A&L Goodbody has been named Ireland M&A Legal Advisor of the Year at the Mergermarket European M&A Awards in London.

The key to Oscar Wilde's jail cell is set to be auctioned off in London tomorrow. The key is believed to have been used to unlock the Reading gaol cell occupied by Wilde between 1895-1897 following his conviction for sodomy and gross indecency.

The Court of Appeal has quashed the eleven-year sentence given to a man convicted of raping a young woman in her bedroom Cork, and resentenced the man to eight years’ imprisonment with the final three years suspended upon conditions. Delivering the judgment of the three-judge Court, Mr Justice Edw

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald met EU justice ministers in Brussels yesterday to discuss issues including online hate speech, e-evidence and encryption.

Cork solicitor Frank Buttimer remains Ireland's top-earning free criminal legal aid solicitor, the Department of Justice has confirmed. Mr Buttimer earned €548,449 in 2015, down from €709,668 in 2014. He was the only legal aid solicitor to earn more than half a million euros.