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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

A man arrested in Ireland on foot of two European Arrest Warrants has successfully objected to his surrender to the UK, due to the risk of him being subjected to inhumane and degrading treatment in Maghaberry Prison. Directing the Minister for Justice and Equality to seek further information regardi

Deirdre Malone Following a ruling that four young men in Oberstown experienced a breach of their rights, penal reform campaigners have called for the introduction of a legal framework governing the holding of children in single separation.

Willie Penrose A bill to allow class action lawsuits in Irish law will be introduced to the Dáil this week.

Ireland faces a fine from the European Commission for failing to implement the EU's fourth anti-money laundering directive by the June 2017 deadline. The Commission is investigating 17 countries which did not put Directive 2015/849 into force by 26 June 2017, The Irish Times reports.

William Cross Cleaver Fulton Rankin director William Cross has retired from the Belfast firm after 33 years.

The European Court of Human Rights will hear a landmark case on surveillance today as part of a challenge to the lawfulness of the UK’s surveillance laws and its intelligence agencies’ mass surveillance practices. The case, described by campaigners as a “watershed moment for people’s privacy

Mark Toland Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has named Mark Toland as the new Chief Inspector of the Garda Síochána Inspectorate.

Pictured (l-r): Jude Copeland, Ciarán Moynagh, Jill Minne, Monye Anyadike-Danes QC and Conor McCormick Members of the legal profession celebrated sexual diversity at a special event for LGBT students hosted by Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF).