Ahed Tamimi Amnesty International has called on Israeli authorities to release 16-year-old Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi, who will appear in court today over an altercation with Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank last month.
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Jim Duffy Jim Duffy, a barrister at 1 Crown Office Row, will be running the London Marathon in aid of the London Legal Support Trust (LLST) this April.
More than twice as many fines were issued for breach of greyhound welfare legislation last year than the year before, the Irish Examiner reports. A total of 43 fines worth €10,750 were issued under the Welfare of Greyhounds Act 2011 in 2017, compared to 20 fines in 2016, the Irish Greyhound Board
A man who had his custodial sentence reduced from ten-months to six-months, with a further four-months suspended for a period of five years, has lost his appeal against his sentence in the High Court. Finding that the Circuit Court judge did not err in his judgment, Mr Justice Max Barrett refused al
Julian Yarr Partners at A&L Goodbody have elected Julian Yarr to serve a third term as managing partner.
David Brangam Dublin-based LK Shields has announced the promotion of David Brangam to partner in the firm's corporate and commercial department.
Standing: JP Comerford, JP McDowell (MP) Sitting: Karen O’Brien, James Roddy, Honor Hargaden Four newly-qualified solicitors have joined the McDowell Purcell team in Dublin after completing their training.
Pamela Irvine Mackenzie & Dorman Solicitors has welcomed solicitor Pamela Irvine to the practice.
The Supreme Court will hear an appeal over the meaning of the word "unborn" in the Constitution as early as next month. The State requested a hearing as early as possible to avoid hearings taking place during campaigning for the referendum on repealing the Eighth Amendment.
Tributes have been paid to to Hugh Sheridan, the retiring State Solicitor for County Sligo, the Sligo Champion reports. Mr Sheridan qualified as a solicitor in 1982 and was appointed State Solicitor in 1998 to succeed Tom Tighe.
Jeremy Wright QC The UK's Attorney General, Jeremy Wright QC, is to appear personally in the Court of Appeal to argue that a woman convicted of promoting so-called Islamic State (IS) should be imprisoned.
Sinn Féin and the SDLP have urged the return of 50:50 recruitment to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), The Irish Times reports. Figures show that just 31 per cent of the 7,700 applicants for 300 new officer posts are Catholic.
A trainee solicitor has pleaded guilty to seriously assaulting his girlfriend during a drunken argument, the Derry Journal reports. Kevin McDaid, 31, admitted a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm on 2 December 2017, but denied an additional charge of causing damage to a police car.
A solicitor accused of bringing cocaine into Mountjoy Prison for an inmate is facing an additional charge for unlawful possession of cocaine, the Irish Independent reports. Dublin solicitor Aonghus McCarthy, 32, was originally charged in November on one charge of conveying a controlled drug into Mou
A businessman whose premises were searched by the Gardaí on foot of a search warrant in 2014, has had his appeal dismissed in the Court of Appeal. The man had been refused an order for discovery of the relevant information in the High Court as he was not entitled to such, and the Court of Appeal up