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Around 13 per cent of recorded crimes in 2016 were committed by a person on bail for another offence, according to figures obtained by the Irish Examiner. A total of 25,543 crimes out of 198,634 recorded by gardaí last year, including 6,214 thefts and 1,377 burglaries, were committed by individuals

Victims of child abuse have called on Northern Ireland political parties and the UK government to address the failure to implement the recommendations of the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry report. After a demonstration at Stormont today, abuse survivors will hand in a 30-page document and le

Mr Justice Turlough O'Donnell, a former High Court and Court of Appeal judge, has died. The prominent late judge, buried yesterday, sat on the bench between 1971-90 and subsequently became a part-time member of Ireland's Law Reform Commission.

Larry Donnelly US President Donald Trump is either responsible for "a great betrayal of vulnerable voters" or "a fundamental misread of his mandate", NUI Galway law lecturer Larry Donnelly has said.

Belfast solicitors are set to raise cash for a mental health charity by playing golf. The Belfast Solicitors' Association (BSA) has launched its annual Golf Day, which this year will raise cash for Inspire wellbeing (formerly Niamh), one of the longest established mental health and learning disabili

Limerick firm HOMS Solicitors is supporting suicide and self-harm charity Pieta House at Darkness Into Light events across Ireland.

A man who fractured his knuckle after tripping on a footpath while jogging has been awarded €60,000 in damages after it was found in the High Court that South Dublin County Council breached the common duty of care it owed to the man by failing to repair the footpath. Included in the award made by

The international section of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) has met in Dublin for the first time.

Les Allamby The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) has joined its counterparts in Scotland, England and Wales in urging the UK government to strengthen, not weaken, human rights through Brexit.

The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has raised serious concerns over the safety of inmates and staff in prisons in England. The CPT's report following a UK visit last Spring notes prison violence spiralling out of

A choir of solicitors, barristers and judges will raise money in aid of Belfast's homeless at a concert next month.

Belfast firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has raised over £100,000 for local charities since it began its Charity of the Year initiative in 2012.

A 59-year-old man has been awarded €675,116.72 in damages by the High Court after an accident at work which caused him serious injuries. The defendant company accepted liability for the accident, but since it had created a non-physical job for the man to return to after he recovered from his accid

Wendy Lyon There is no justification for requiring a financial contribution towards legal aid from victims of domestic violence, a lawyer has said, after it emerged the cost of abolishing the contribution would be just €366,000.

Portlaoise court sittings should be moved out of the town centre as a matter of priority, a local councillor has said. Sinn Féin councillor Caroline Dwane-Stanley told local radio station Midlands 103 that court sittings were disrupting business in the town.