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The High Court has granted an injunction against the DPP restraining the prosecution of a man of a drug-driving charge due to a breach of fair procedures. The court held that the wrong charge had been preferred by the DPP and that the DPP had made representations to the District Court that the charg

Dillon Eustace has announced the appointment of Conor Kiernan as a partner in its banking and capital markets team. Mr Kiernan, previously a senior associate, joined Dillon Eustace in 2018, having spent nine years with another prominent Irish law firm.

Kevin Healy, solicitor at Comyn Kelleher Tobin, provides an overview of coming changes to the practice and procedure of civil litigation in the High Court. A variety of reforms to the practice and procedure of civil litigation in the Superior Courts is due to commence on 13 November 2021 through the

Solicitor Catherine Pierse has been appointed by ministers as Ireland's next director of public prosecutions. Ms Pierse, currently head of the prosecution support services division in the DPP's office, will succeed Claire Loftus following the completion of her term of office at the end of next week.

Officers abusing their position for sexual purposes is now the single largest form of police corruption in England and Wales, a watchdog has said. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said the number of people facing disciplinary proceedings for APSP has "risen sharply" in the past three

Proposals to reform the Probation Board for Northern Ireland (PBNI) will go out to consultation "in the coming weeks", justice minister Naomi Long has said. Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland (CJINI) last year recommended that the Department of Justice should review the founding legislatio

Private security personnel will receive training on how to recognise and tackle human trafficking under plans being developed by the Private Security Authority (PSA). The PSA last year developed new training requirements for those in the door supervisor, security guarding and event security sectors,

Another man has successfully appealed his convictions for trying to help Gerry Adams escape from prison in the 1970s. Martin O'Rawe, 70, brought an appeal following last year's landmark UK Supreme Court ruling which found that Mr Adams was detained unlawfully and therefore had not broken the law by

Barristers and legal academics from both sides of the Irish border are among the finalists at the Inspirational Women in Law Awards 2021. Mary-Rachel McCabe and Emma McIlveen, both barristers from Northern Ireland, have been named as finalists in the Under-35 Lawyer of the Year category.

A woman is suing Kellogg's for $5 million, alleging the company's strawberry Pop-Tarts contain very little strawberry. Filed earlier this month in the Southern District of New York, the suit is the latest in a series of class actions against Kellogg Sales.

The BBC has profiled lawyer Manjula Pradeep who was born in Western India to a Dalit family, a community on the lowest rung of the caste ladder. Growing up she experienced severe discrimination and indignity because of her background. She was also the victim of sexual abuse yet excelled at school an

A man has pleaded not guilty to a charge of publishing a photograph of Judge Mark Hamill sitting in court. The case came before Judge Hamill in Newtownards Magistrates Court yesterday, who agreed to transfer the case to Downpatrick "for obvious reasons".

The High Court granted an order of certiorari to quash planning permission for a petrol station in Belfast, ordering the applicant to pay one third of the legal costs on top of the £325,000 building costs incurred to date. The court was not swayed by the arguments of the notice party, who "has

Disabled voters can lawfully be required to enter polling places through a back entrance, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. In a "disappointing" ruling yesterday, the court said polling places and election procedures in Europe need to be accessible for disabled people, but access

Philip Alston, the John Norton Pomeroy professor of law at NYU School of Law, argues that gender diversity on the International Court of Justice must be taken more seriously. In Is There a Special Practice?, Antonios Tzanakopoulos has written a very learned post seeking to dispel the notion that the