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A human rights barrister who had been jailed for abusing Air India cabin crew after she was refused alcohol is believed to have killed herself days after being released from prison. Belfast-born Simone Burns, 50, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in April after racially abusing and spitting

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Via The Bar of Ireland: Full house here in The Gaffney Room for the launch of the new Probate Bar Association of Ireland. Pictured (L-R) are Probate Bar Association of Ireland members Catherine Duggan BL, Vinog Faughnan SC, Anne Marie Maher BL, and Karl Dowling BL.

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From our sister publication, Scottish Legal News, comes the tale of Helen Duncan, the wartime 'witch'. In 1941 at a seancé in Portsmouth, the spirit of a sailor was said to have appeared to announce the sinking of HMS Barham.

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A round-up of human rights stories from around the world.

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A woman who fell beside a "wet floor" sign at a casino has been awarded $3 million in compensation. Lynda Sadowski walked towards a collapsed sign at a Jack Casino and tripped over it, her attorney Matt Nakajima said.

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There have been mistakes in calculating the sentences to be served by almost three per cent of prisoners, the Irish Independent reports. The Irish Prison Service (IPS) commissioned a Sentence Calculation Review Programme, which has revealed the mistakes in the period of detention of 46 inmates.

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A judge will decide on Monday whether a newspaper editor is responsible for a front page story during the Ana Kriegel murder trial that led to his newspaper being barred from reporting the court proceedings. Associated News (Ireland) Ltd, owners of the Daily Mail newspaper, accepted its responsibili

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The long standing test concerning the legal possession of land has been challenged in the landmark case of Thorpe v Frank [2019] EWCA Civ 150, writes Stuart Nevin, associate, A&L Goodbody. The Court of Appeal found that repaving a forecourt was enough to obtain possession in a claim for ‘a

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