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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

The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) has been given responsibility for enforcing the EU Data Governance Act (DGA) in Ireland. The DGA aims to increase trust in data sharing by establishing a harmonised framework for data sharing and setting out certain basic requirements for wha

The Law Society of Northern Ireland is now formally represented within the Law Society of Ireland for the first time in its century-long history. Since 1921, five seats have been reserved on the Council of the Law Society of Ireland for representatives from its northern counterpart — but have

Thieves in England stole around 20,000 litres of Guinness as pubs and shops struggled with a pre-Christmas shortage of Ireland's most famous export. A truck carrying 400 kegs, each filled with 50 litres of the stout, was stolen from a depot in Northamptonshire in mid-December, according to The Guard

Barrister Kenneth Fogarty SC passed away late last year after a brief illness. Mr Fogarty called to the Bar in 1988 and to the Inner Bar in 2001, practising mainly in the criminal courts in Dublin.

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Partners at London law firms are managing to double or triple their pay by moving firms amid intense competition caused by unprecedented investment by US firms, according to a new report. Legal recruitment consultancy Edwards Gibson said there were 546 partner hires in London in 2024, up from 510 in

Legislation providing for harsher sentences for crimes motivated by hatred has come into effect. The commencement of the Criminal Justice (Hate Offences) Act 2024 from 31 December 2024 marks the first time in the history of the State that hate-aggravated offences will be treated differently.