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Lawyers acting for Paddy Jackson, yesterday acquitted after a nine-week rape trial, have invited senior justice officials to discuss proposals to clamp down on social media commentary during trials. In a statement issued after the trial, solicitor Joe McVeigh of Belfast-based KRW Law said "vile comm

Winning student team Bronwyn Hogan, Darragh McDonagh, Orla Moriarty and Stephen Pearson A team of four third-level students have triumphed in McCann FitzGerald's Legal Apps Hackathon, the first-ever legal hackathon to use AI technology, with their white collar crime reporting app.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan A convicted murderer who was executed in 1882 is set to be posthumously pardoned on the recommendation of the Government.

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has resumed the publication of crime statistics under a new category of "under reservation". The CSO suspended the publication of crime figures last summer after data quality issues were identified in relation to gardaí figures on which the CSO relies.

An international research organisation has published a new report exploring whether plans to build a new dedicated immigration detention facility in Ireland will result in more people being detained. The Global Detention Project is based in Geneva and reports on the human rights of detained migrants

A team of second-year students representing the respondents in a medical negligence-themed moot triumphed in last night's grand final.

A viola player whose hearing was seriously damaged at a rehearsal of Die Walküre in 2012 has won a landmark High Court case against the Royal Opera House. On September 1, 2012, Chris Goldscheider suffered irreversible damage to his hearing after noise levels exceeded 130 decibels, equivalent to a j

Maya Foa, director of Reprieve Acting on recommendations from UK-trained torture investigators, Bahrain’s Attorney General has requested that the country’s highest court reconsider the death sentences handed to two men convicted on the basis of forced confessions obtained through torture.

National University of Ireland Galway has successfully appealed a High Court order which placed an injunction on an investigation into bullying complaints made by a member of staff. One of the respondents to the complaint alleged objective bias on the part of the independent investigator appointed b

Dr Diarmuid Griffin Life prisoners in Ireland are serving longer periods of time behind bars than in previous decades due to Ireland's unreformed parole process, new research has found.

The nine-week trial of Ireland and Ulster rugby players Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding on rape charges has ended in acquittal. The verdict was reached unanimously by a jury of eight men and three women this afternoon.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan Gardaí computer systems will begin logging the purchase of sexual services as a separate incident category this week, a year after the commencement of Ireland's sex buyer ban.

Alice Whittaker Alice Whittaker, energy and climate partner at Philip Lee Solicitors, is set to address investors and businesspeople at a one-day conference on energy finance in Cork.

The abolition of Scotland’s centuries-old blasphemy law has become a policy of the governing Scottish National Party after the party passed a resolution that the law would never be used to prosecute anyone. Blasphemy is outlawed under the Confession of Faith Ratification Act 1690 and was last used

A former Catalan government minister is set to be extradited from Scotland to Spain if an arrest warrant is approved by the Scottish courts. Clara Ponsatí, now head of the school of economics and finance at the University of St Andrews, has been charged with rebellion and misuse of public funds in