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A major new campaign to overhaul Ireland's defamation laws has been launched to coincide with World Press Freedom Day 2019. NewsBrands Ireland, the representative body for major Irish news publishers, claims the Irish laws are among the most restrictive in Europe and the English-speaking world.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has said he is concerned by the preliminary findings of the Inspector of Prisons on allegations of covert surveillance in Irish prisons. Patricia Gilheaney was asked by Mr Flanagan last November to examine allegations that private conversations between solicitors an

A solicitor who refused to return a mother and daughter's passports because of a dispute over €1,500 has been told she must hand them over. Mr Justice Peter Kelly, president of the High Court, said it was "disproportionate and wholly unreasonable" to withhold the documents over such a "miniscul

Representatives of three Northern Ireland NGOs will travel to Geneva next week to address a key UN committee on the UK's compliance with international treaty obligations on preventing torture. Solicitor Gemma McKeown will represent the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ), while Andr&eac

Mr Justice Ian Huddleston addressed senior judges, lawyers and stakeholders at the launch of a new journal which aims to provide a new source of information for practitioners dealing in all aspects of elder law and capacity.

The Northern Ireland Prison Service (NIPS) has announced a review of access to books within Northern Ireland prisons following a public controversy. Dr Marisa McGlinchey criticised the service after it emerged that prisoners were not allowed copies of her recently-published book, Unfinished Business

A High Court judge has surrendered for extradition a man who absconded to Ireland after spending 31 years in prison for a murder he committed when he was a child. Roy Norman Kenyon came to Ireland in 2003 while serving his sentence for the murder of Margaret Potts, an elderly shopkeeper, whom he bea

Irish solicitors Donna Ager and Mary O'Neill are among the members of the Maples Group global asset finance team which won recognition at a New York awards ceremony yesterday. Ms Ager, a partner based in London who leads the Irish asset finance team, and Ms Mary, a partner in Dublin, are among seven

Almost 50 staff members at Holmes O'Malley Sexton Solicitors are preparing to take part in the Regeneron Great Limerick Run this Sunday.

A powerful sketch by Nelson Mandela, The Cell Door, Robben Island, has been sold at Bonhams' modern and contemporary African art sale, in New York for $112,575. The wax pastel crayon work, which the South African revolutionary and president created in 2002, was one of the few that the statesman kept

Court closures across England and Wales are "putting justice in danger", the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx) has warned. The professional body for legal executives said the HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) was putting "the cart before the horse" by going ahead with court closu

A judge in Virginia has ruled that the Confederate statues in Charlottesville are war memorials protected by law and that they cannot be removed. Judge Richard Moore made the decision in a case against city council members who voted two years ago to take down a statue of Confederate General Robert E

A burglar who was stabbed to death by a pensioner was lawfully killed, a coroner has ruled. Henry Vincent was stabbed to death as he burgled the home of Richard Osborn-Brooks, 78, in southeast London last April.

Director Joe Berlinger's new Ted Bundy biopic arrives in cinemas and on Sky Cinema today amid a storm of controversy over its casting of former teen heart-throb Zac Efron as the notorious murderer, rapist and necrophile who killed at least 30 women in the 1970s. The film, described by Berlinger as a

Our sister publication, Scottish Legal News, recalls a scandalous divorce case from just across the water. Donald Findlay QC has narrated an audiobook on the divorce case of the Duchess of Argyll – Allan Nicol’s Three Strand Pearl Necklace.