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An outgoing senior judge has said the UK government would be wrong to abolish prison sentences of less than six months. Sir Brian Leveson, the most senior criminal judge in England and Wales, retired from the bench on Friday.

The US Supreme Court has quashed the conviction of a black Mississippi man in his sixth trial for a quadruple murder in 1996 after finding a prosecutor blocked potential black jurors, Reuters reports. In a 7-2 ruling written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the court found that the prosecutor's actions w

LEAP, the leading provider of legal practice management software, is proud to have won the award for ‘Service Provider to the Legal Profession’ at the Irish Law Awards held recently in Dublin.John Espley, CEO LEAP UK & Ireland, said: “Receiving the award is the culmination of

A man who stole a human skull and kept it for more than a year has been jailed for four months. Lucas Dawe, 20, found the skull exposed within a mausoleum-style tomb in an Anglican cemetery.

A man who was dismissed via email and met by Gardai when he returned to work the following day has been awarded €21,050 in compensation for unfair dismissal and technical breaches of employment legislation. Finding that the man’s dismissal was procedurally fatally flawed, Adjudicatio

Ireland is set to become the first EU country to ban plastic microbeads in household and industrial cleaners under legislation introduced to the Dáil. Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy said that EU member states had already introduced restrictions on the sale of cosmetic products containing micr

The Law Society of Northern Ireland has announced the appointment of its new Chief Executive, David Lavery CB. Mr Lavery comes to the Society with a strong record of service in the justice system, where he is currently Deputy Permanent Secretary and Director of Access to Justice in the Department of

A former barrister who stole €235,000 from a businessman by pretending he had bought him a warehouse in Co Kildare will be sentenced in November at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, the Irish Examiner reports. Patrick Russell, 56, pleaded guilty to the theft of €215,000 from Paul O’Conn

A Supreme Court judge has warned that a dearth of judges and other resources mean there is a risk the courts will be unable to administer justice, The Irish Times reports. Ms Justice Mary Finlay Geoghegan spoke at an event at the Supreme Court in response to tributes marking her retirement in a few

Cleaver Fulton Rankin associate Solicitor Maria McNally has completed her training with the Institute of Professional Legal Studies (IPLS) to become a qualified mediator. The IPLS Mediation Course provides training in Civil and Commercial Mediation. As advocates of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Ms

After increasingly positive noises around a potential trade deal between the USA and China (even the exchange of “beautiful letters” between presidents), recent weeks have seen both sides double down, levying increased tariffs in what many are now describing as a renewed trade war, write

Tina English and Lee O'Donovan look at a recent opinion from the European Court on the scope of 'takedown orders' imposed on host providers. Advocate General Szpunar (the “AG”) of the Court of Justice (“CJEU”) has stated in a noteworthy opinion that the E-Commerce Directive (

Via JJ Rice Solicitors: Congratulations to our team who ran in @GrantThorntonNI 5k at @BELFASTCITY_AIR last night!

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today fined Bank of Scotland (BOS) £45,500,000 for failures to disclose information about its suspicions that fraud may have occurred at the Reading-based impaired assets (IAR) team of Halifax Bank of Scotland. The FCA found that BOS failed to be open

Pakistan is to establish more than 1,000 courts devoted to tackling violence against women, the country's most senior judge has announced. Chief justice Asif Saeed Khosa said the special courts would let victims speak out without fear of retaliation, The Guardian reports.