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All practising solicitors in England and Wales may have to pay up to £400 in order to cover the costs to clients following the collapse of a City law firm. Axiom Ince was closed down by regulators last month and police are investigating allegations of a £64 million fraud.

Possessing drugs for personal use should cease to be a criminal offence in Ireland, the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use has recommended. The sixth and final meeting of the Citizens' Assembly on Sunday voted on and agreed 36 recommendations that will produce a new Irish model of legislation, policy a

Housing problems made up more than four in 10 cases dealt with by Community Law & Mediation (CLM) last year as the Irish housing and cost-of-living crises intensified. The independent community law centre and charity, located in Dublin and Limerick, assisted nearly 5,000 people last year through

An Irish criminologist's book on "pain, resistance and purpose" behind bars has won a major prize in the United States. Prison Life: Pain, Resistance and Purpose by Professor Ian O'Donnell of UCD Sutherland School of Law is the 2023 winner of the Outstanding Book Award, the top literature prize give

Residents of Russian villages with embarrassing names that mean the likes of slut, boozy and farty are to be granted a reprieve. New legislation proposed in Russia's State Duma would allow local authorities to unilaterally change the names of settlements that are "degrading to the dignity of residen

Dublin lawyer Julian Michael was part of a Dentons team advising on the UK and Ireland's successful bid to host the UEFA Euro 2028 competition. The Euros will be the largest major sporting event ever jointly staged by the UK and Ireland after the joint bid was approved by UEFA in Switzerland earlier

A wide-ranging consultation to inform the development of proposals for comprehensive reform of the Coroner Service in Ireland has been launched. The public consultation will run until 19 January 2024, after which proposals on a renewed coroner system, including a proposed plan as to how this will be

A first-of-its-kind judicial review aimed at forcing Northern Ireland's Department of Infrastructure to resume carrying out exhaust emissions tests on diesel cars has been delayed until January. The case brought by Friends of the Earth NI with support from The PILS Project was expected to return to

A national open disclosure framework for the health and social sector has been launched, applying beyond the HSE to all private health and social care providers as well as health regulators and educational bodies. The new framework was launched by health minister Stephen Donnelly at the National Pat

The imprisonment of a 45-year-old woman in England who admitted to causing her own abortion during the lockdowns was “unlikely” to be just, senior judges have said. Carla Foster was given a 28-month prison term after obtaining tablets when she was between 32 and 34 weeks pregnant.

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Egypt official tells Europe to take in 1m Gazans if ‘you care about human rights so much’

A court worker has been arrested after trying to approach Donald Trump in a show of support during his civil fraud trial in New York. The woman, who has not been named, has been suspended from her job as well as being charged with contempt of court and disrupting a court proceeding, CNN reports.

Human rights lawyer Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC has been selected to receive a Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad. Ms Gallagher, who began her legal career in Dublin and now practises with Doughty Street Chambers in London, is among 13 people who will receive the award from P

There is a "plausible and credible case" that Israel is attempting to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, a respected US-based legal advocacy organisation has said. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), founded in 1966 to provide legal support for the civil rights movement, published

Ireland's prison population is higher now than it was when a landmark report called for it to be reduced by a third within a decade, penal rights campaigners have highlighted. The all-party Oireachtas group on penal reform yesterday marked the 10-year anniversary of the penal reform report published