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An environmentalist who argued that a section of the proposed road from Randalstown to Castledawson would threaten protected species, and therefore breach EU legislation, has had his appeal dismissed in the Court of Appeal in Belfast. Delivering the judgment of the Court, Lord Chief Justice Declan M

Judges have called for judicial salaries to be restored to their pre-recession levels as soon as possible as some judges are "struggling" on their current pay, the Irish Examiner reports. George Birmingham, president of the Association of Judges of Ireland, set out the judges' case in a letter sent

The Government is considering a second referendum on new parliamentary inquiry powers which leading legal figures had helped to defeat just six years ago, The Irish Times reports. A memorandum to be presented to Cabinet today proposes to re-run the 2011 referendum on empowering Oireachtas committees

Hugh Cummins Commercial law firm Philip Lee has announced the appointment of Hugh Cummins as a partner.

Michael Monahan The president of the Sligo and County Solicitors Bar Association has called for the appointment of at least one dedicated family law judge for western Ireland.

Paul Tweed Belfast lawyer Paul Tweed has issued libel proceedings in Dublin against Facebook and Twitter on behalf of exiled Palestinian politician Mohammed Dahlan, The Irish News reports.

Northern Ireland solicitors who qualified in 1967 met for a 50th anniversary reunion in Belfast Reform Club.

Foreign Minister Simon Coveney Irish citizen Ibrahim Halawa, held in a Cairo jail pending his formal release, will be returned to Ireland within days, Foreign Minister Simon Coveney has said.

Men are still being forced to pay more than women for car insurance, despite the introduction of an EU directive five years ago prohibiting price discrimination by gender. The EU gender directive attempted to eliminate the practice that saw women favoured with discounted premiums. So commonplace was

The Policing Authority has said the appointment of the next Garda Commissioner may take up to six months, The Irish Times reports. The process of finding a successor to former commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan, who unexpectedly retired this month, remains at an early stage.

Fake lawyers bearing drug-soaked letters have been taking advantage of legal mail privileges in a prison to smuggle narcotics to addicted inmates. A report on HMP Wealstun, in West Yorkshire, found letters are being sprayed with new psychoactive substances including Spice.

A man who complained that his human rights were breached by members of the police service when attempting to recruit him as an informer, has lost his appeal to bring judicial review proceedings because an alternative remedy was open to him in the form of the Tribunal established under section 65 of

Judges in the High Court are taking longer to render their judgments, with some being delayed for several years, according to new figures. The majority of reserved judgements are issued within three months but data obtained by The Irish Times shows that some judges are taking more than a year to iss

A district judge has described as “woefully inadequate” the sentences he is able to impose for domestic violence cases which involve acts including choking. At Londonderry Magistrates Court, Judge Barney McElholm severely criticised laws dating from 1861 as he was sentencing a 27-year-ol

Pictured (l-r): David Browne, partner at BDM Boylan Solicitors & Business Advisory, Georgina O’Halloran and John Boylan, managing partner