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The widow of solicitor Pat Finucane (pictured) is set to ask the UK Supreme Court for leave to appeal her failed legal bid to overturn the UK government's refusal to hold an inquiry into his 1989 murder. Solicitor Peter Madden will lodge an application directly with the UK Supreme Court next week on

The creation of online courts will result in more unrepresented defendants and defeat the principle of open justice, according to a legal think tank. Transform Justice has today published a report warning that the Mnistry of Justice’s £1 billion court reform programme for England and Wales makes

A telephone subscriber’s consent to the publication of his data also covers its use in another member state, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled. The highly harmonised regulatory framework makes it possible to ensure throughout the EU the same respect for requirements relating to

Amnesty International has welcomed the support of the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland for its call for an inquiry into Mother and Baby Homes in Northern Ireland. Eamon Martin, Archbishop of Armagh and the Primate of All Ireland, said many in the church and society were “ashamed” and that

A defaulting shareholder of the Blackrock Clinic has been ordered to pay another shareholding company almost €9 million in respect of the defaulted loans which the company purchased after the collapse of Anglo Irish Bank. In the leading judgment of the three-judge Court of Appeal, Ms Justice Finla

Richard Grogan A leading employment solicitor has called for the decisions of Adjudication Officers to be more easily accessible online.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Ireland's new DNA database contains 10,988 individual person samples, Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has revealed.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Victims of violent crime have been paid €27.81 million through the criminal injuries compensation scheme in the past five years.

The High Court has dismissed a challenge brought by a man with alleged links to Islamic terrorism against the state's bid to deport him. The man, aged in his 50s and living in Ireland for several years, had claimed he is at serious risk of ill treatment and torture if deported to his native country.

Read Montague Brain imaging could determine whether a criminal has acted in a state of knowledge about a crime or in a state of recklessness, researchers have said.

An internal rule of an undertaking which prohibits the visible wearing of any political, philosophical or religious sign does not constitute direct discrimination, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled. However, in the absence of such a rule, the willingness of an employer to take acc

Kevin Winters Survivors and relatives of the victims of the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings have applied in the High Court in Belfast for further information from British authorities about the attacks.

Belfast's iconic Crumlin Road Courthouse will become home to a new luxury hotel in a £25 million project announced today. The Signature Living Group confirmed its plans for the building at the MIPIM property convention in Cannes, Frances.

A solicitor who was found guilty of misconduct on numerous grounds by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal of the Law Society of Ireland has been struck off the Roll of Solicitors. The man implored the Court to uphold the recommendation of the tribunal directing that he be allowed to continue to pra

Newly-admitted solicitors have been welcomed to the profession by the president of the Law Society, Ian Huddleston.