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Sexual offending experts have called on gardaí to investigate reported abuse and threats aimed at a rape victim in court yesterday. Two men were yesterday jailed for seven years for raping a woman who blacked out after drinking at a house party in Co Leitrim in 2017.

Work to establish a dedicated Mental Health Court in Northern Ireland is set to move forward later this year. The Department of Justice has confirmed that a project board for the proposed problem-solving court has been established and plans will be developed in conjunction with other stakeholders in

The Law Society of Ireland welcomed 42 Transition Year students from schools around the country as part of a week-long activity-based programme.

A retired solicitor has avoided contempt proceedings after belatedly complying with a court order to make a €25,000 payment. Joe Buckley, from Co Wicklow, was ordered to make the payment following a finding that he overcharged a former client, businessman Denis Doyle, by €736,000.

Staff at Comyn Kelleher Tobin recently facilitated a training course on courtroom skills to members of University Hospital Kerry.

Belfast-based Cleaver Fulton Rankin has been awarded Investors in People's standard accreditation in recognition of its commitment to good people management. Investors in People is an international standard for people management, defining what is required to effectively lead, support and manage peop

A polygamist with three wives and ten children has told a court that he helped to defraud the US government of nearly $470 million (€434m). The huge sum obtained through a clean energy subsidy scam was allegedly spent on real estate in the US and Turkey and expensive cars including a $1.7 milli

A man who argued that he was unfairly dismissed from his employment after making a “protected disclosure” has lost an appeal against the Labour Court’s finding that, in stating that his work was causing him pain, his communication was an expression of grievance and not a protected

Insurance and risk specialist BLM has announced the appointment of Seamus White and Audrey McGinley as partners in Dublin. The UK-headquartered firm now employs 50 people in Dublin, its only office in the EU following Brexit.

Access to justice "not only makes for better law, but for better democracy", Mr Justice John MacMenamin told law students from across Europe at a conference in Dublin. The Supreme Court judge delivered the Brian Lenihan Memorial Address at the 12th Annual Law Student Colloqium at Trinity College Dub

The controversial reference to women’s “life within the home” in the Irish constitution should be scrapped, the Citizens' Assembly has said. The body, made up of chairperson Dr Catherine Day and 99 citizens randomly selected to be broadly representative of the Irish electorate, met

A new UN investigation into Ireland's treatment of a woman who was abused in Magdalene laundries for nearly two decades has wide-ranging implications, a human rights expert has warned. The UN Committee Against Torture (UNCAT) has launched an investigation into the State's treatment of 70-year-old El

A damages action brought by a lawyer and academic over serious injuries he sustained following a car crash in Co Tipperary over a decade ago has been resolved. The action was brought by barrister Diarmuid Rossa Phelan SC, who also teaches law at Trinity College Dublin, arising out of injuries he sus

A landmark ruling that a couple’s Islamic marriage falls within the scope of English marriage law but is void has been overturned by the Court of Appeal. In a judgment which could affect thousands of Muslims in England and Wales, the court has said that the "nikah" ceremony was an invalid cere

A judge in Manhattan has ruled that a summons can be served by email to British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, a former associate of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Lawyers for Annie Farmer, who alleges that she was trafficked and sexually abused by Maxwell and Epstein, said they have tried to