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The Law Society of Ireland was honoured to welcome Judge Craig D. Hannah of the Opioid Intervention Court to Blackhall Place for the annual Human Rights Lecture on 12 June.

UK government talks on how to deal with problems of evidence disclosure have excluded victims of miscarriages of justice, according to a campaigner. Liam Allan was on bail for two years after he was wrongly charged with rape and sexual assault, The Times reports.

On BBC Radio 4's Law in Action this week, Joshua Rozenberg looks at the topic of rape myths and juries. Do jurors believe in rape myths? A coalition campaigning to end violence against women said a third of people questioned in an opinion poll thought that sex without consent was

A woman who was refused refugee status and declared ineligible for subsidiary protection has lost an application for judicial review of an International Protection Appeals Tribunal decision. Finding that the risk of prosecution for “irregular exit” from Algeria did not amo

Politicians have criticised the Government for signing off on salary increases for the country's top judges. Opposition TDs said the increases come at a time when members of the Defence Forces are being denied pay rises, along with thousands of hospital support staff.

In excess of €5.6m was returned to the Exchequer as a result of Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) actions in 2018, which also included the seizure of cryptocurrency Ethereum – a worldwide first – according to a new report. Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan laid CAB's 2018 Annual Report b

As part of that smear campaign, Mr Rattle claims that both he and several investors with his firm have received messages, correspondence and packages containing false allegations about him and August Equity. Aodhan O Faolain, Ireland International News Agency Ltd.

Olivia O'Kane explains why journalists must be able to protect the identities of their sources In recent years, through confidential sources journalists have exposed many scandals such as the MPs expenses, the phone hacking, financial and banking impropriety, mistreatment of elderly or vulnerable pa

The Victims of Crime Act 2017 transposes Directive 2012/29EU into Irish law and defines a victim as “a natural person who suffered harm including physical, mental or emotional harm or economic loss which was directly caused by an offence”. Denise Kirwan, a partner in child and family law

University College Dublin legal academics Dr Eoin Carolan and Dr TJ McIntyre have been promoted to the posts of full professor and associate professor respectively. Eoin Carolan is founding Director of the Centre for Constitutional Studies at UCD. He is a graduate and former Scholar of Trinity Colle

A new law will require food businesses to include full ingredients labelling on pre-packaged foods following the death of teenager Natasha Ednan-Laperouse in 2016. Natasha died after she had an allergic reaction to a baguette from Pret A Manger.

Pictured yesterday at the Law Society of Ireland is Sinead Fitzgerald, partner in child and family law at Comyn Kelleher Tobin.

A healthy man died after he was held in a court cell on one of the hottest days of the year, an inquest jury has heard. In June 2017, Rafal Sochacki, 43, was held for almost five hours in Westminster Magistrates' Court, which had faulty air conditioning, the BBC reports.

Frequent fliers are being told to include their air miles in their wills. People who travel often can amass points worth tens of thousands of pounds that become void upon death due to airlines' terms and conditions.