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An American lawyer collapsed and died while delivering closing arguments in a murder trial, according to US media reports. Jean Darby, 64, is suspected by doctors to have fallen victim to a brain aneurysm or a stroke while defending a man accused of murder in Alabama's Lauderdale County Court.

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Professor Imelda Maher UCD Sutherland School of Law has announced a new FET entry route into all of its eleven law degree programmes from the 2018/19 academic year.

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Pictured (l-r): Professor Valéria Silva Galdino Cardin, Dr Kathryn O’Sullivan and Professor Luiz Geraldo do Carmo Gomes A law lecturer from Limerick recently participated in an international congress in Brazil alongside colleagues from Catalonia and Portugal.

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Labour has called for jury trials to be used in court martial hearings as part of a review into military justice, The Brief reports. Under the current system, a board of senior officers operates in a similar way to a jury. If the proposals are enacted, this would be replaced with the jury system use

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A House of Lords committee has called on the UK government to make legislation easier to understand, among other recommendations. The Constitution Committee in a report published today focuses on the preparation of legislation before it enters Parliament. The committee says that better policy prepar

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Dublin-based LK Shields has announced plans to open an office in Galway in its thirtieth year in business. The new office in the iconic Dockgate Building in Galway City will open on Wednesday, providing Galway and the western and mid-western regions with specialist corporate and commercial legal adv

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The Courts Service of Ireland today teamed up with RTÉ News to broadcast two Supreme Court judgments live for the first time. It marks the first time any recording or transmitting of proceedings in an Irish court case has been permitted, and is part of a pilot project that could be developed furthe

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The "substandard quality" of social housing in Ireland breaches human rights, the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) has ruled. In its ruling, the ECSR found that the State was failing to take sufficient and timely measures to ensure an adequate standard of housing for families in local auth

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The Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) has launched the first in a series of three annual reports providing a comprehensive report on human rights and best practice in Ireland's penal system. IPRT has developed 35 standards against which Ireland’s penal system will be independently tracked, monitored

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