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The High Court has found that the Minister for Social Protection erred in law and breached fair procedures, natural and constitutional justice, by failing to properly consider all of the evidence furnished by the applicant that her child was a “qualified child” under the Social Welfare Consolida

Martin Hanna, APIL's executive committee member for Northern Ireland The UK-wide Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has criticised Northern Ireland's Department of Justice (DoJ) over proposals to abolish legal aid as a method of funding legal cases for money damages.

Photo by Rob Sinclair, CC BY-SA 2.0 Former Irish solicitor Michael Lynn will be extradited to Ireland to face allegations of mortgage fraud following a ruling by the Supreme Federal Court in Brazil.

The High Court in Dublin has delivered a landmark ruling on the scope of access to environmental information. Delivering a judgment in the case of Stephen Minch -v- Commissioner for Environmental Information & Anor, Ms Justice Marie Baker said the Commissioner for Environmental Information had a

Claire Edgar Claire Edgar, partner at Belfast firm Francis Hanna & Co Solicitors, addressed the Belfast Domestic Violence Partnership conference this month.

Dr Louise Crowley of the School of Law Students in the College of Business and Law at University College Cork (UCC) will be recognised at its Work Placements Award ceremony later today.

Jo DeMars The Dublin-based wing of a new online dispute resolution service will be officially launched today in a bid to provide dispute resolution services across the EU.

Edward Spencer, associate at Taylor Wessing In a potentially landmark ruling, the English High Court has given judicial approval to the use of predictive coding in disclosure for High Court cases.

The UK Supreme Court has ruled a company’s VAT repayments, made after it overpaid VAT, are liable to corporation tax. The appellant, Shop Direct Group (SDG), is a company in the Littlewoods corporate group (the Group).

A campaigner against the drugs trade has called for the establishment of a "mini" Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) focussed on seizing the assets of drug dealers. Sue Collins, founder of Addiction Response Crumlin (ARC), issued the call at the launch of new research into intimidation by drug dealers, Th

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) will expand its Cyber Crime Unit in order to better tackle the growing threat of cybercrime. Nine officers will be transferred to the unit, boosting its manpower by 50 per cent, the Belfast Telegraph reports.

. The claim of battery was dismissed, with the Judge citing McMahon & Binchy ‘Law of Torts’ under the heading ‘Consent to Medical Procedures’ and Walsh v. Family Planning Services 1 I.R. 496, which found that failure to advise was not an assault, but a possible breach of duty of care.

The Courts Service of Ireland will start to more routinely pass on information to gardaí about people who fail to report for jury service. According to information released to the Irish Daily Mail through a Freedom of Information request, a total of 7,359 people failed to report for jury service af

Alastair Ross MLA Draft new rules for the remuneration of criminal barristers and solicitors in the Crown Court were outlined by the Department of Justice yesterday.

Caoimhe Haughey Lawyers for a woman who was at the centre of a high-profile abortion controversy last year have requested a copy of the Health Service Executive (HSE)'s draft legal review into the case.