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Almost €1.3 million was paid into the poor box in Irish courts last year, a year-on-year decline of roughly 40 per cent. The total collected sum of €1,291,397 in 2015 has since been distributed to 724 charities, agencies and individuals, according to the Courts Service of Ireland.

Ireland's Registrar General Kieran Feely, who manages the State's marriage registration system, has raised concerns about the number of so-called sham marriages. Mr Feely highlighted figures showing only 53 per cent of proposed marriages involving a non-Irish EU partner and a non-EU citizen proceede

Dozens of wanted men evaded arrest between 2011-15 by crossing the Irish border, according to new data published by The Detail. Figures obtained by the investigative news website from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) reveal that 47 police chases ended at the border over the period, with

Darragh Mackin The Northern Ireland Prison Service has been challenged over its decision to refuse to let a man convicted of the murder of PSNI officer Stephen Carroll receive a booklet from the campaign to free him.

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon Birmingham firm Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) will close at the end of August after being told it will receive no more legal aid funding.

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