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Badge of the Royal Irish Constabulary On the 29th of June 1871, Royal Irish Constabulary inspector Thomas Hartley Montgomery robbed the Northern Banking Company in Newtownstewart, County Tyrone and murdered cashier William Glass.

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

Police found themselves in pursuit of a different kind of suspect recently – a goat. Officers in Oakland in the US state of Maine posted on Facebook that they had responded to a call of a goat chasing after a woman down a street, WMTW8 reports.

A man who entered into an agreement with his parents in 1996 wherein he purchased a house for them through a tenant scheme, has lost his application to strike out proceedings brought against him by his sister.  The man’s sister is seeking to set aside the conveyance of the house to him in

Gardaí would be allowed to give evidence at legacy inquests in Northern Ireland under proposed laws. The Cabinet is acting on proposals to provide a “concrete assurance” that the Government is committed to “full implementation of the legacy mechanisms” detailed in the

New legislation to let people access medical cannabis on a limited basis over the next five years has been signed into law by Health Minister Simon Harris. Mr Harris said the programme would permit “compassionate access to cannabis for medical reasons” in situations in which more convent

The law firm Arthur Cox has chosen Geoff Moore, a senior partner in the firm’s corporate department, as its next managing partner. Mr Moore will lead the firm for the next four years. He will take office on 1 November, succeeding Brian O’Gorman who will return to full-time practice as a

William Fry has announced the addition of corporate partner, Paul White to its San Francisco office. Mr White has significant experience advising on a wide range of transactional corporate matters for public and private companies, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventu

The Central Bank of Ireland has fined J.P. Morgan Administration Services (Ireland) Limited (JPMAS) €1.6 million in respect of regulatory breaches relating to the outsourcing of fund administration activities. The firm admitted to three breaches of the Outsourcing Requirements and one breach of

There was a fall in re-offending rates of eight percentage points between 2008 and 2012, a new report shows. Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan welcomed the publication of the CSO Probation Service Recidivism Report for 2011 and 2012. The report shows re-offending by those sentenced to probation

Northern Ireland has seen the largest increase in business insolvencies in the UK since the Brexit vote, a new report has found. The study by credit check specialist Creditsafe, reveals that the number of firms that have gone bust since the referendum has risen by 115.3 per cent on an annual basis.

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