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More prisoners in England and Wales will have the opportunity to access employment and training following an expansion of the release on temporary license (ROTL) scheme. Offenders in open and women's prisons will now be eligible for paid work as soon as they have passed a "tough" risk assessment.

A judge in Utah has been suspended without pay for six months after he made critical comments about President Donald Trump in court and on social media, CNN reports. According to the ruling of the Utah Supreme Court, Judge Michael Kwan's Facebook posts were "laden with blunt, and sometimes indelicat

A man was arrested after allegedly giving a fake name to police while wearing a lanyard with his real name around his neck. According to police, Markel Towner, 26, said his name was "Deangelo Towns" even though a lanyard around his neck clearly read "Markel Towner".

The Supreme Court has dismissed a "rare and exceptional" application from the Minister of Agriculture to review a judgment relating to negligent misstatement by government officials. The Minister submitted that, in upholding the High Court’s finding of liability for economic loss and an award

Dublin-based Crowley Millar Solicitors has announced the launch of a regional office in Limerick under the leadership of partner Tommy Dalton. Mr Dalton has over 35 years' experience in all sectors of practice and specialises in the areas of banking and commercial/corporate law.

HOMS Solicitors has announced the appointment of Marguerite Seymour as an associate solicitor in the firm's litigation department. Ms Seymour joins the Limerick-based firm from William Fry, where she advised a wide variety of clients on contentious litigation matters with a particular focus upon bre

Dublin firm Noel Smyth & Partners has unveiled its new branding under the name HBMO Solicitors.

Legislation to reduce the period of time couples must live apart before divorcing will be brought forward following a resounding vote for reform in the divorce referendum. The Government's proposal to amend Articles 41.3.2 and 41.3.3 of the Constitution to allow the Oireachtas to legislate on the ma

A High Court test case which would have significantly clarified the law around debt-for-equity personal insolvency arrangements has been struck out on a technicality. The case was brought by Start Mortgages against a personal insolvency arrangement approved in Trim Circuit Court, which saw a man's m

Barristers heard from cervical cancer patient Vicky Phelan and rape survivor Leona O'Callaghan at a landmark conference on the experience of plaintiffs and victims in pursuit of access to justice through the legal system in Ireland. The Bar of Ireland's chairman's conference, "Laws & Effect", to

Barristers Ferga McGloughlin and Angela Collins discuss the impact of the divorce referendum on Irish family law in the first episode of the Irish Women Lawyers Association (IWLA) podcast. The two family law experts are the inaugural guests on the IWLA Podcast, hosted by professional podcast produce

Simon Byrne, former chief constable of Cheshire Police, has been selected to take over as head of the PSNI following the retirement of incumbent chief constable George Hamilton at the end of June 2019. Mr Byrne's appointment has been unanimously ratified by the Northern Ireland Policing Board and ap

Preliminary death sentences have been handed to more than 2,400 people in Egypt, including 11 children, during President Abdelfattah el-Sisi’s first five years as president, a Reprieve report has revealed. Mass Injustice: Statistical Findings on the Death Penalty in Egypt examines Egypt’

The owner of a replica of Noah's Ark has sued its insurer for refusing to cover water damage – caused by a flood. Ark Encounter, the owner of the 510-foot long replica of the biblical vessel in Northern Kentucky, said that the heavy rains of 2017 and 2018 caused about $1 million in damages to

A hospital has lost an appeal against the finding that the two-year limitation period for issuing personal injury proceedings began when the plaintiff received a doctor’s medical report based on hospital records – not when he was informed in the weeks after his surgery that he had contra