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The estate of singer Prince has issued a statement requesting that US President Donald Trump stop using the song Purple Rain at rallies. At recent events, including one in Mississippi, the playlist has featured the track, word of which reached the late artist's estate.

A man who was refused payment of his legal fees under the Legal Aid Custody Issues Scheme has been granted an Order of certiorari, quashing the decision of the Legal Aid Board. Finding that the decision was ultra vires the scheme and ultra vires the Board’s powers under the scheme, Ms Justice

The director general of the Workplace Relations Committee (WRC) has been appointed deputy secretary for justice and equality in the Department of Justice. Oonagh Buckley, a qualified barrister who has headed up the WRC since 2016, will play a key role in the restructuring of the Department.

The Law Reform Commission has announced the appointment of Ms Justice Mary Laffoy as its president. The retired Supreme Court judge succeeds Mr Justice John Quirke in the role following his retirement.

A private members' bill to provide rape and sexual assault complainants with independent legal advice and representation was not opposed by the Government at its second stage in the Dáil last night. A spokesperson for Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan said he would consider his position on th

The latest edition of the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly shines a special spotlight on the European Union after Brexit. The special issue, Vol 69 No 3, resulted from the "Brexit - 15 Months On" conference hosted at Queen's University Belfast last September.

Belfast lawyer Paul Tweed has secured an apology for Ryanair from the Irish Examiner over reports about the airline's safety record. The High Court in Dublin heard that the newspaper was retracting the articles it published in May 2015 and would make a donation to Ryanair's chosen charity, the Jack

Numerous criminal barristers are going broke as a result of the shrinking legal aid budget, The Times reports. The Bar Council, which represents more than 15,000 barristers, has told the UK government that the profession is “at a pivotal point”.

Legal publisher Clarus Press has offered free books on Irish constitutional law to all candidates in the presidential election. The legal publisher sent a tweet to the six candidates, offering them free copies of Constitutional Law in Ireland and 75 Years of the Constitution in Ireland.

Northern Ireland's Department of Justice has launched a new campaign aiming to raise awareness of paramilitary-style attacks and their impact on victims, families and wider society. Four videos broadcast on TV last night and now available on YouTube tell the story of a paramilitary-style shooting fr

Austria's Supreme Court has ruled that a Turkish man, who is anonymous, gave up his right to Austrian nationality when he registered to vote in Turkey, setting a precedent for 20,000 naturalised Turks to be deprived of Austrian citizenship. The right-wing Freedom Party, which is in control of the in

Students have been given a list of offensive costumes they have been told not to wear for Halloween, including cowboy outfits. Also in the list of proscribed dress, issued by Kent University's student union, are the clothes of priests, nuns, Nazis, Crusaders, ISIS bombers, Native Americans, Israeli

The mother of Patrick Pearse Jordan, who was 22 years old when he was fatally shot by a member the RUC in Belfast in 1992, has lost an appeal against the refusal to grant leave to apply for judicial review of the latest inquest into his death. Dismissing all six grounds for judicial review which wer

Carson McDowell has announced the expansion of its litigation practice with the merger of defence insurance litigation specialists Francis J Irvine Solicitors into the business. Two lawyers specialising in defence insurance litigation, Aidan Murray and Christopher Walls, have joined Carson McDowell