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Pictured (l-r): Steven Gilliland and Emma Smyth Belfast firm MKB Law has announced the appointment of two new trainee solicitors, Steven Gilliland and Emma Smyth.

Alan Sheeley Pinsent Masons has warned that police budgets risk being swallowed up by law firms unless work given to them to seize fraudsters' assets is done either on a “no win no fee” basis or according to competitive tendering.

Fran Duffy A law student who has been selected to play netball for Ireland in the Nations Cup next month is appealing for sponsorship to cover her travel and training costs.

In Letterkenny Criminal Court, the Master of a sea fishing vessel was found guilty on three counts of breaching EU regulations, and was fined €105,000. In dismissing the appeal, the Court of Appeal rejected the Master’s challenge to the three counts found against him, stating that the trial judg

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