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A record-breaking cache of weapons seized by Spanish police and believed to be linked to terrorism were just movie props, it has emerged. Police believed they had successfully traced the weapons used in a 2014 attack on a Jewish museum in Belgium to an antiques store in Bilbao, where they found arou

New members have been appointed to the Probation Board for Northern Ireland (PBNI) for a three-year term. Max Murray CBE, who previously spent 37 years working for the Northern Ireland Prison Service and consults for the Council of Europe on criminal justice and prison reform in the Western Balkans,

A number of Ireland's largest law firms have said they are dropping wealthy Russian clients in light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine – with some urging their colleagues to "go beyond sanctions".

Catherine Kirwan has entered the Irish bestsellers list with her latest book Cruel Misdeeds telling the tale of a lawyer’s murder in her adopted home town of Cork and the subsequent investigations by legal sleuth Finn Fitzpatrick. The book is a second hit for Catherine following on from the Da

Based on the real-life theft of a Goya portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London in 1961, The Duke is that rarest of movies – a gentle comedy that packs a punch, in this case a powerful defence of the right to trial by jury. Jim Broadbent as Kempton Bunton, the ecc

A politician has received a surprise birthday cake while in the dock. Julius Malema, leader of South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters party, was in court in the city of East London charged with firing an automatic rifle in 2018.

The Bar of Northern Ireland celebrated the achievements of female QCs with a photographic exhibition and lecture as part of the Legal History Project lecture series marking the centenary of the bar and judiciary yesterday. The event marked one hundred years since the first women entered the professi

The Law Society of Northern Ireland has unreservedly condemned the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and calls for an immediate cessation of hostilities and the withdrawal of Russian forces from the territory of Ukraine. In a statement issued yesterday, the society’s president, Brigid Napier, said

A barrister is raising money for Ukraine as she makes a return to the country after having spent 25 years in Northern Ireland.

The High Court has granted an interlocutory injunction restraining a fund from selling a mortgagor’s lands while he was still in possession. The sale was advertised three weeks prior to an online auction and where the plaintiff complained that it was never previously suggested that the lands w

France’s Court of Cassation has upheld a ban on advocates wearing religious symbols with their robes in courtrooms. In June 2019, the Lille Bar Council told its members they would not be permitted to wear “decorations or signs” displaying “religious, philosophical, community

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Bachelet leads calls for ceasefire in Ukraine during urgent debate at UN rights council

Human rights campaigners have called for the release of lawyer Mohammad Najafi, who has been imprisoned in Iran since 2018 on multiple convictions for his defence of basic civil and political liberties. Lawyers for Lawyers, an independent and non-political Netherlands-based foundation and the Center

A newly promoted judge has paid tribute to the local profession before she takes up her new role. Judge Catherine Staines presided over her final sitting of Tullamore District Court on Monday, the Offaly Express reports.

Retired Kilkenny solicitor, Paul Smithwick OBE, has passed away, Kilkenny People reports. Mr Smithwick, who was from a prominent brewing family, was awarded an Order of the British Empire in 2016 for his service to British-Irish relations.