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Estate agents are expecting Northern Ireland house prices to continue to rise even if they are less optimistic about prices across the rest of the UK. A new report by RICS and Ulster Bank states: "Looking further ahead, Northern Ireland surveyors are also positive about the prospects for house price

Northern Ireland debt judgments and small claims have soared in total value on last year, the Belfast Telegraph reports. There were 2,186 judgments worth £5.9 million in Q3 2017, a 25 per cent increase in volume and 85 per cent increase in total value compared to Q3 2016, according to the Registry

Emily Logan Almost one in eight people in Ireland have experienced discrimination over the past two years, a new human rights report has found.

Facebook is inviting users to submit their private pictures as part of a new pilot programme to tackle "revenge porn", The Guardian reports. The social media giant is trying to build up a database of image "hashes" - a digital fingerprint that will allow it to identify when a private photo is being

HOMS Solicitors has presented a certificate of achievement to Transition Year students who took part in its 2017 student programme.

The overwhelming majority of Northern Ireland Prison Service staff are Protestant, according to new figures from the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency. Of its 1,230 staff, 957 (77 per cent) identified themselves as Protestants and just 166 (13 per cent) identified themselves as Catholi

A man who argued that he was the true owner of premises his father had mortgaged, and over which the bank had appointed a receiver, has lost his application to the High Court for possession. Finding that the plaintiff had perjured himself in claiming that he had paid his father for an ownership inte

The Government has nominated four people for appointment as judges on the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and High Court. Ms Justice Mary Finlay Geoghegan has been nominated for appointment to the Supreme Court, leaving the Court of Appeal which she joined in 2014.

Pictured (l-r): Richard Neville and Paudie Burke O'Flynn Exhams Solicitors has announced the appointment of Paudie Burke as the firm's director of operations and finance.

Mr Justice Seamus Treacy has been sworn in as a judge of Northern Ireland's Court of Appeal. He is the third of three new judges whose appointments were approved in February.

Germany's Federal Constitutional Court has ruled that the country's first law dealing with intersex people is inadequate. Under the Civil Status Act 2013, which was hailed as a landmark piece of legislation, sex can be left blank on a birth certificate if a child is not clearly identified as male or

Maria McDonald The Victims' Rights Alliance (VRA) has called on the Government to establish an Ombudsman for Victims of Crime following the signing into law of the Victims of Crime Act 2017.

A same-sex couple in the UK has called for changes to Irish citizenship laws to recognise an egg donor as a child's mother. Katie Gallagher and Holly Groombridge have been in contact with Fine Gael TD Kate O'Connell after finding their son, Griffith, is not eligible for an Irish passport because Ms

A bill to significantly enhance the powers of the Policing Authority may pass despite the Government's opposition, The Irish Times reports. Jim O'Callaghan, Fianna Fáil's justice spokesperson, has tabled legislation to give the Authority power to sack gardaí and be informed of all Garda Commission

The Government has paid €30,000 in compensation to a woman who was subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment because of Ireland's abortion laws. The UN Human Rights Committee ruled in June in regards to Siobhán Whelan, who was denied access to abortion services in Ireland following a di