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Sitting as a Coroner at the inquest into the death of a 22-year-old man in 1992, Mr Justice Horner said it was impossible with the passage to time to say with any certainty what happened. In his judgment, the Coroner criticised the PSNI for creating obstacles and difficulties that prevented progress

The Courts Service of Ireland has said courts will be making their own arrangements to ensure repossession cases can proceed in spite of protests, The Irish Times reports. Limerick Circuit Court revealed it has stopped publishing the dates on which home repossession hearings will be heard in order t

Nearly half of Irish prisoners released in 2010 reoffended within three years, new figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) reveal. However, the figures showed a slight decline on the previous year. The rate of or recidivism for prisoners released in 2010 was 45.1 per cent, a decrease of 2.4

Michael O'Flaherty, FRA director The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has said EU rules essential to build trust in the EU’s area of justice are seldom invoked, potentially hindering the fair treatment of people involved in criminal proceedings.

Pictured (l-r): Patrick Brown, Ray Foran and James Donnelly The managing partner of Belfast firm Tughans met Northern Ireland's new air ambulance as it touched down near the Titanic Centre.

Justice Minister Claire Sugden Northern Ireland's Justice Minister Claire Sugden has defended the Northern Ireland Executive's record on tackling paramilitary activity.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has published the annual report for 2015 on the operation of the European Arrest Warrant Act 2003.

Irish technology companies raised a record €734 million in the first nine months of 2016, according to the Irish Venture Capital Association's (IVCA) VenturePulse survey published in association with William Fry. In the nine months to end September 2016, the total raised was 77 per cent ahead of t

A former barrister who suffered a brain injury after routine surgery has won a €7.1 million settlement in the High Court. Frank Cowan, who practised as a barrister until 2008, failed to initially regain consciousness after being given anaesthetic for a routine back procedure and successfully sued

Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly have called for the release of 20-year-old Irish citizen Ibrahim Halawa from detention in Egypt at a demonstration on the steps of Stormont. MLAs joined Mr Halawa’s sister Khadija Halawa and representatives of Amnesty International at the demonstration on T

The High Court has awarded a sum of €47,200 to a Dublin shop manager who was injured after slipping at work. Mr Justice Barr accepted evidence from medical experts that the injury had caused the woman to experience pain in her knee since the date of the accident in 2012, until this was relieved by

The Courts Service in Limerick has stopped publishing dates on which home repossession proceedings will be heard, The Irish Times reports. Applications for home repossessions were previously listed on the Courts Service website, with hearings held on the first Friday of every other month. Now, repos

The Department of Justice has launched a consultation on the statutory “age of digital consent” to be applied in Ireland as part of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Article 8 of the GDPR provides that, in the case of information society services offered directly to a child, pare

Justice Minister Claire Sugden The Northern Ireland Executive has backed plans to pardon gay and bisexual men convicted of abolished sexual offences.

Professor Siobhán Mullally Professor Siobhán Mullally has been re-elected to the Council of Europe's Group of Experts on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) for a second two-year term.