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The Bar of Ireland and the Irish Medical Organisation will co-host an inter-professional seminar for women next month. The Definitions of Success seminar, featuring RTÉ presenter Miriam O'Callaghan as keynote speaker, will explore issues for women in their careers.

The Leveson Inquiry’s second stage has been shelved, the Conservative manifesto reveals. Part one of the inquiry, in 2011-12, examined ethics but further hearings into links between newspapers and the police as well as corporate malpractice were put on hold as criminal proceedings over phone hacki

The fund-freezing measures imposed on Rami Makhlouf, cousin of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, must be maintained for the period 2016-2017, the General Court of the European Union has confirmed. Since 2011, the Council has included Mr Rami Makhlouf on the list of persons covered by the restrictiv

An Irish man who works as a teacher in an international school in Brunei has been granted an order directing the return of his wife and two-year-old daughter to Brunei, after his wife ‘wrongfully removed their child from the jurisdiction’. The High Court heard that although the child was an Iris

Pictured (l-r): Louise O’Byrne, Managing Partner Brian O’Gorman, Florence Loric, and Michael Twomey Arthur Cox has appointed three new partners at its Dublin office, adding to the firm’s senior level expertise in the areas of competition and regulated markets, employment law and litigation.

David Stanton Ireland's new social enterprise strategy for the justice sector is "a new departure" for the Department of Justice, David Stanton has said.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald A review of Ireland's probate system is underway in a bid to eliminate a backlog and to reduce waiting times for grant of probate applications.

Facebook has been hit with a €110 million fine by the European Commission over information it provided ahead of its merger with WhatsApp. The social media giant provided incorrect or misleading information to the Commission during its 2014 investigation under the EU Merger Regulation of the firm's

The partner of murdered gangster Eamon Dunne has brought High Court action over Irish Life's refusal to pay her €250,000 on a life policy the couple took out two years before his death. The action has been taken by Georgia Saunders over an insurance policy she and Mr Dunne entered into with the in

A vulnerable Lithuanian man who was “somewhat coerced” to come to Ireland and work in a cannabis grow house tending to over €100,000 worth of plants has been jailed for one year. Andrius Gnizinskas, 32, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to cultivating cannabis plants at St Patric

Dr Sheila Willis Forensic scientists detected 27 new recreational drugs in Ireland this year, Forensic Science Ireland (FSI) has said.

The Bar of Northern Ireland's charity committee has named The Welcome Organisation as its 2017-18 Charity of the Year.

A top judge has called for divorce proceedings to be split from money disputes. President of the Family Division, Sir James Munby, has called for the implementation of an online divorce system, saying the time had come for a “complete de-linking – separation – of divorce and money, so that the

A woman has been awarded €189,000 in damages by the High Court after a road traffic accident involving two cars resulted in a broken ankle, leaving her permanently disabled. The court accepted that the woman went to the assistance of a driver whose car had crashed into a ditch, and that while doin

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has named the eleven members of the “root-and-branch review” of An Garda Síochána.