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Brendan McGuigan A new report on the resettlement of offenders has called on the Northern Ireland Prison Service and Probation Board Northern Ireland (PBNI) to build on their current collaborative approach.

St Patrick’s Archdiocesan Trust have been granted an order for possession of a seven-and-a-half-acre field in Newry which was being used by a woman to keep ponies. The woman, who has been a tenant in a house adjacent to the field since 2004, claimed that she and her husband were entitled to advers

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan The Government has approved the drafting of legislation to provide further protections for homeowners facing possession orders.

The Children's Rights Alliance (CRA) has called for new adoption legislation to be expedited to help people whose adopted parents were unlawfully registered as their birth parents. Children's Minister Dr Katherine Zappone yesterday announced that Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, will make contact

The Government has approved the appointment of retired Circuit Court Judge Barry Hickson to head up a proposed Commission of Investigation into the handling of child sexual abuse allegations. The proposed commission will investigate the response to complaints or allegations of child sexual abuse mad

Workers posted temporarily to another EU country must get equal pay for equal work in the same place under new rules agreed by the European Parliament yesterday. The revised rules, approved 456-147 with 49 abstentions, aim to ensure better protection for posted workers and fair competition for compa

Lord Reed Lord Reed has been appointed Deputy President of the UK Supreme Court.

The University of Dundee, a favourite choice of Northern Ireland law students, has been ranked third for law in this year’s Guardian University guide. Northern Ireland's Lord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan praised the Scottish university in 2016 for producing a strong cohort of Northern Ireland l

The Home Office has increased the fees to renounce British citizenship after a surge in people adopting the citizenship of other EU countries, The Independent reports. Ministers have been accused of “cashing in on Brexit” and giving Britons on the continent a "last kick out the door" after it wa

The "professional ethos and culture" of law firms discourages men from taking parental leave, leading to gender inequality in the legal profession, an international study has found. Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland and TÉLUQ University in Québec examined male lawyers' motives behin

The bosses of firms which make nuisance calls could face fines of up to £500,000 under UK government proposals to hold them personally liable. A consultation on the plans is being launched, though the idea was first proposed in 2016 and was meant to be in place last year.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan Ireland will return to the polls in October for a referendum on removing the Constitution's references to a woman's place being in the home, the Sunday Business Post reports.

Staff in the Belfast office of Arthur Cox have raised over £3,500 for Cancer Focus Northern Ireland as part of the Big Shops’ Showdown, a one-day charity shop takeover challenge.

A man who was arrested by immigration officers in 2011 has been awarded €7,500 in compensatory damages for the tort of false imprisonment and for injury caused as a result. Stating that it had been established that the man was unlawfully deprived of his liberty and was falsely imprisoned, Ms Justi

Cork's new €35 million courthouse was officially opened by Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan and the Chief Justice of Ireland, Mr Justice Frank Clarke, at a ceremony yesterday.