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Customs and excise officers seized a record amount of cannabis from the Irish postal service in the last five years, The Irish Times reports. There were 640 seizures at postal sorting centres in 2015, compared with 286 seizures in 2014 and only 60 seizures in 2011.

The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal by County Louth Vocational Education Committee regarding proceedings before the Equality Tribunal concerning an allegation of discrimination on grounds of gender and sexual orientation made by a retired teacher against his former employer, County Louth Vocation

A prominent victims rights campaigner has lodged the first legal challenge in Northern Ireland against the UK's decision to leave the European Union. Raymond McCord, whose son was killed by loyalist paramilitaries in 1997, has lodged an application for judicial review at the High Court in Belfast.

Personal injury firm Rogers Solicitors recently celebrated its first birthday with a promise of further expansion later this year.

A law firm instructed by a number of prisoners at HMP Maghaberry has called for an independent investigation into violent disturbances earlier this week. Belfast firm KRW Law, which is instructed by a number of a number of sentenced and remand prisoners detained in the Roe House segregated wing, iss

Trade union GMB is celebrating a landmark legal victory over German-owned, low-cost supermarket Lidl. The Central Arbitration Committee (CAC), the independent tribunal with statutory powers over trade union recognition, dismissed Lidl’s attempts to block warehouse operatives employed at the compan

Mason Hayes & Curran Dublin firm Mason Hayes & Curran acted for Irish renewable energy company Gaelectric on the project financing Ballybay and Foyle wind farms, by AIB plc, for a total of €38 million.

Joshua Browder The creator of a chatbot that successfully challenged 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York has now written a program to provide the homeless with legal aid.

Senator Jerry Hill A legislative committee in California has approved plans to strengthen disclosure requirements for building contractors following the Berkeley balcony collapse.

In the High Court, Mr Justice David Keane has allowed two property companies and their controlling director, to succeed in an interlocutory application for a Mareva injunction – thereby restraining a former employee from "removing from Ireland, disposing of, dealing with or diminishing the value o

The number of prosecutions disposed at Crown Court in Northern Ireland in 2015 fell by a massive 36.4 per cent because of the Department of Justice's legal aid dispute with barristers, new figures show. After an upward trend between 2011-14, the number of prosecutions fell 36.4 per cent from 2,063 i

Twenty-three barristers - 20 men and three women - have been approved for admission to the inner bar, The Irish Times reports. It is the last time that an advisory committee of the Chief Justice, the President of the High Court, the Attorney General and the chairperson of the Bar Council will make r

A High Court judge has criticised "enormous" legal fees and called for a "general reassessment of the appropriateness of the scale of legal fees that seem so regularly to be charged for legal representation". He made the remarks in a case where a woman in her 70s failed to pay legal fees of €176,4

Prime Minister Theresa May Plans to replace the UK's Human Rights Act with a “British Bill of Rights” could be scrapped or changed following the Brexit vote.

Ross Little Commercial and insurance law firm DWF has announced the appointment of corporate partner Ross Little (pictured) as the new executive partner of its Dublin office.