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Keith Walsh The Law Society of Ireland and FLAC have renewed their calls for the Government to remove economic barriers for vulnerable people in domestic violence cases by scrapping the fee for accessing legal representation.

Pictured (l-r): Mark Thorne (Managing Partner), Kelly O'Hara (Partner and Head of Real Estate), and Paul Eustace (Partner, Real Estate) Dublin-based Dillon Eustace has announced the appointment of Kelly O’Hara as a partner and head of the firm's real estate team.

More than 25,000 people received legal advice from FLAC last year, according to the organisation's annual report for 2016. A total of 25,710 people either received legal advice from volunteer lawyers at legal advice clinics across Ireland or legal information from FLAC's telephone information and re

A judge has said that existing contempt of court laws are hopelessly inadequate in curbing social media commentary which has the potential to interfere with ongoing trials. Judge Melanie Greally also said that there is no right for anyone to express themselves over social media in relation to an ong

The UK Supreme Court will sit in Belfast for the first time next year, the Belfast Telegraph reports. The court sat outside of London for the first time earlier this year when it sat in Edinburgh.

Colin Reid Social workers have warned the implementation of the so-called "rape clause" in Northern Ireland could open them up to prosecution, The Guardian reports.

David Stanton The Government of Ireland is not proud of "the serious wrongs" made in its past, minister of state David Stanton said following an examination by a UN expert committee on torture.

Department of Justice officials are concerned that news reports about compensation payouts by parole authorities in the UK because of delayed hearings will inspire lawsuits in Ireland. According to The Irish Times, sources in the Department say they are concerned by reports that 463 cases were taken

Staff at the Belfast office of A&L Goodbody have raised £1,000 for charity partner Age NI through a sponsored Spinathon.

Tony Blair The High Court has ruled that Tony Blair should not be prosecuted for his role in the 2003 Iraq War.

An order for deportation of an Algerian man who arrived in Ireland under a false identity in 1997 after being convicted of terrorism in Algeria, and who has subsequently been convicted of terrorism offences throughout Europe, must be reconsidered by the Minister for Justice and Equality. The ministe

Mrs Justice Susan Denham The Law Society of Ireland has hailed the Chief Justice of Ireland, Mrs Justice Susan Denham, as "the most transformational figure in the history of the courts system in Ireland".

Tanya Ward The Children's Rights Alliance has warned that "children will suffer" if the Legal Aid Board does not reverse its controversial decision to restrict referrals to the District Court.

A dedicated immigration detention centre will be built at Dublin Airport by July 2018 for those awaiting deportation, The Irish Times reports. The Department of Justice confirmed that work would begin this September so that people awaiting deportation are no longer held in Irish prisons alongside cr

UK fraud authorities have fed into a working group examining the potential for the establishment of a national insurance fraud database in Ireland. The establishment of a fraud database in order to help the insurance industry detect patterns of fraud was recommended in the Report on the Cost of Moto