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Declan McGeown Staff at the Youth Justice Agency have raised a magnificent £23,000 for Action Cancer, their chosen charity for 2017.

Prisoners at Hydebank Wood College have given back over the festive period by selling Christmas crafts in aid of Victim Support NI. Table centrepieces, ceramics and wooden gifts, jams and chutneys, handmade by prisoners at Hydebank Wood College have been sold for a total of £531.

A man who was caught drink driving has had his appeal to the Supreme Court dismissed. In a unanimous judgment from the Court concerning the statutory interpretation of the Road Traffic Act 2010, Ms Justice O’Malley held that while the document relied upon to prove the breath alcohol level should h

Hundreds of struck-out drink driving cases could have gone ahead following a Supreme Court ruling on breath alcohol tests, The Irish Times reports. In a unanimous judgment delivered yesterday, the Supreme Court held that written statements relied on to show a person's breath alcohol level could be a

The Law Society of Ireland has failed in an appeal to avoid paying the new vacant site levy on undeveloped land near its headquarters in Dublin. An Bord Pleanála said the undeveloped site at 32-40 Benburb Street is suitable for housing.

Rhys Jones Johnsons Solicitors has successfully defended jewellery business Argento in an Employment Tribunal case involving a former employee who claimed he was fired for whistleblowing.

The Supreme Court will hear an appeal by the State over a High Court ruling that the Constitution confers significant rights upon the "unborn child" beyond the right to life, The Irish Times reports. It concerns findings made by Mr Justice Richard Humphreys in 2016 as he granted leave to a Nigerian

The High Court in Belfast has ruled that search warrants issued to enter and search the homes and workplace of four former KMPG partners as part of a tax evasion investigation were unlawful. Eamonn Donaghy, Jon D'Arcy, Paul Hollway and Arthur O'Brien applied for a judicial review with regard to the

The staff association for PSNI officers has said the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland (PONI) has "serious questions to answer" over a collapsed criminal case against two officers. A judge in Newry Crown Court "stayed" the case against the officers, who were alleged to have perverted the course

The High Court in Belfast has ruled in favour of retired police officers who challenged the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland (PONI) over a report which found that collusion was an element in the 1994 Loughinisland massacre. The report was unlawful and procedurally unfair, Mr Justice McCloskey s

Pictured (l-r): HOMS staff Orla McCarthy, Emma Brewer and Bernadette Conway with the children's Christmas presents Staff at HOMS Solicitors have contributed a collection of children's Christmas presents to charity Novas in Limerick.

A record number of ethnic minority lawyers in England and Wales will be promoted to the ranks of Queen's Counsel today, The Brief reports. A total of 18 ethnic minority barristers will be promoted to QC following 33 applications, an increase of two on the 16 successful barristers of 37 applicants in

Matt Hancock Broadband providers are to face a legal requirement to provide homes and businesses with faster broadband speed by 2020, the UK government has announced.

Pictured: Members of the Bar's charity committee with Kieran Hughes, fundraising and marketing manager from The Welcome Organisation Members of The Bar of Northern Ireland's charity committee raised over £10,000 for the Bar's charity of the year, The Welcome Organisation, at the Big Belfast Sleepou

in the attack and her account that she sought to restrain Hughes. Further, the trial judge was correct to admit this evidence and the other applications were refused.