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A monkey in a pink tutu has been apprehended by police in the USA. The fashionable spider monkey was staying at a home in Jefferson County, Missouri when it "managed to open a door and get outside", police said.

People who lack the right to vote should be excluded from calculations to determine how many TDs should be elected by each Dáil constituency, a legal academic has proposed. An upcoming article co-authored by Seth Barrett Tillman, an associate professor at Maynooth University School of Law and

Arthur Cox has appointed eight new partners across the firm. The new partners are Simon Breen in competition and regulated markets, Maeve Crockett in construction and engineering, Stephanie Hanrahan and Christopher O'Reilly in asset management and investment funds, Brendan Kennedy in capital markets

The UK government is to appeal a Northern Ireland court ruling which concluded that there is "no viable alternative" to holding a public inquiry into the 1997 murder of GAA official Sean Brown. Mr Brown was chairman of Bellaghy Wolfe Tones GAA Club and was locking the gates to its training grou

An elderly English barrister has said he has no intention of downing his wig and gown any time soon. Noel Philo, so named as he was born on Christmas, turned 90 last month.

Changes have been made to the scheduling of court business in Dublin Circuit Family Law Court. The case progression list for Thursday 16 January 2025 in Court 35 has been rescheduled to Wednesday 15 January 2025.

Prisoners have a right to conjugal visits that cannot be refused on the basis of inadequate facilities, Italy's top court has ruled. The Supreme Court of Cassation last month ruled in favour of an anonymous 34-year-old prisoner who was denied private time with his wife on the basis that the structur

Barrister and legal academic Diarmuid Rossa Phelan SC has been found not guilty of murder. The 56-year-old, an associate professor of law at Trinity College Dublin, was accused of murdering 35-year-old Keith Conlon on 24 February 2022.

Criminal barristers in Northern Ireland have begun a month-long boycott of legally aided Crown Court cases in an escalation of their campaign for fee increases. The Criminal Bar Association (CBA) announced the boycott last month following disappointment over the Department of Justice's response

A motorist who tried to apprehend a suspected drunk driver on New Year's Eve was found to have been drink-driving himself. The 50-year-old attempted to prevent another motorist from leaving a lay-by in Qualicum Beach, a small town on Canada's Vancouver Island, CTV News reports.

New EU rules aimed at improving gender balance on corporate boards have come into force. The Gender Balance on Corporate Boards Directive, which has not yet been transposed into Irish law, sets a target for EU large listed companies of 40 per cent of the "under-represented sex" among their non-execu

Court sittings have been cancelled or delayed as a result of the cold weather and snow causing havoc across the State. The Courts Service announced yesterday evening that Carlow and Kilkenny courthouses will not open today.

A newly-released document reveals that Northern Ireland's lord chief justice for most of the 1970s and 1980s was described to the Irish government as a sectarian antisemite. Mr Justice Robert Lowry, later Baron Lowry, "dislikes Jews as much as he dislikes Catholics", an official in the Department of

Solicitor Aisling Quilter has been appointed as coroner for Kerry. Ms Quilter's appointment completes the amalgamation of the Kerry North and West coronial districts with the Kerry East and South coronial districts.

An Bord Pleanála is continuing to grapple with a large backlog of planning cases, with over 1,600 cases on hand at the end of November 2024. The backlog — attributed to the shortage of board members in 2022 — has been reduced, with the number of cases on hand down by 37 per cent f