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A company operating fish farms and fish hatcheries in Bantry Bay successfully brought an application for judicial review, quashing the decision of the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to revoke their licence. Ms Justice Marie Baker found that the impugned decision had not been made with

Attorney General Máire Whelan Attorney General Máire Whelan is expected to be removed from her post and appointed to the Court of Appeal following new Taoiseach Leo Varadkar's Cabinet reshuffle.

Ken Murphy The Mediation Bill must be amended "in the public interest" to uphold the principle of confidentiality and strengthen regulation and standards, the Law Society of Ireland has said.

The Law Society of Ireland has submitted 22 detailed recommendations for changes to the Irish taxation and probate systems to alleviate social inequities and ensure Ireland remains an attractive option for international investment post-Brexit. The Pre-Budget Submission on Issues of Probate and Taxat

Dr Charles O'Mahony Galway is set to host the world’s largest Disability Law Summer School next week.

The Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC) has said reports that a pregnant child was detained under the Mental Health Act after seeking an abortion show that Ireland's laws are not fit for purpose. The latest tranche of reports published by the Child Care Law Reporting Project includes the case of a young

The UN Human Rights Committee has ruled for a second time that a woman was subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment because of Ireland's restrictive abortion laws. The committee decided in favour of Siobhán Whelan, who was denied access to abortion services in Ireland following a diagnos

Irish law firms have welcomed their first intake of summer interns.

An independent regulatory body should be established to resolve social media complaints, the Press Council of Ireland has said. It issued a statement following widespread reports about a man who was falsely accused of being a threat to children on the Facebook page of KildareNow, an online-only news

Dr Nayla Comair-Obeid The worldwide president of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) is due to deliver a lecture in Dublin on Friday.

Grainne Teggart Amnesty International has warned that negotiations between Prime Minister Theresa May and DUP leader Arlene Foster must not undermine abortion law reform in Northern Ireland.

The charges against one of seven men on trial for falsely imprisoning former Tánaiste Joan Burton and her adviser at an anti-water charges protest have been dropped. On day 27 of the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court trial yesterday, Judge Melanie Greally told the jury she would be discharging Ken Purc

A member of the British Humanist Association (BHA) has been granted an order compelling the General Register Office to take all necessary steps to authorise a legally valid and binding humanist wedding ceremony. Sitting in the High Court in Belfast, Mr Justice Colton quashed the decision of the Gene

Attorney General John Larkin Northern Ireland's Attorney General John Larkin will appeal the landmark High Court ruling allowing a legally-binding humanist wedding ceremony to go ahead.

Project director Dr Carol Coulter Allegations of serious sex abuse, court intervention in securing psychiatric services for troubled teenagers and praise for the dedication of social workers in certain cases all feature in the latest volume of 22 reports from the Child Care Law Reporting Project, pu