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In the High Court, Justice O’Connor disqualified the director of an online event company for fraudulently taking €1m from the company’s PayPal account, and restricted another director for irresponsible conduct in relation to his failure to make further enquiries into the other director’s con

Putting a halt on judicial appointments until the system is reformed would be "disastrous" for Ireland's courts, a High Court judge has said. Mr Justice John Edwards, secretary of the Association of Judges of Ireland (AJI), told The Irish Times that the association recognised the need for reform.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald More action needs to be carried out to tackle an increase in sexual offences in Ireland, Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has said.

Eileen Barrington SC The Honorable Society of the King's Inns has nominated Eileen Barrington SC to sit on the Legal Services Regulatory Authority after its previous nominee withdrew.

The European Court of Human Rights has unanimously rejected the applications of two men found liable in trespass, following the Omagh bombing in 1998, who claimed they had not been given a fair hearing because the proceedings were essentially criminal in nature and because hearsay evidence of an und

Jonathan Jones Two and a half dozen in-house lawyers have been recruited to a dedicated Whitehall team focussed on the Brexit negotiations, The Times reports.

Up to 60 members of the Irish American Law Society of Cleveland have landed in Ireland for the society's 2016 Business and Legal Symposium, Irish Central reports. The society consists of judges, lawyers and law students in Cleveland, Ohio who claim Irish ancestry.

Leman Consulting, a new business and legal consultancy from the team at Leman Solicitors, was launched in Dublin today. The company claims to be "the only legal consultancy in Ireland" and promises to help businesses grow while taking control of and reducing their legal costs.

Shami Chakrabarti Former Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti is set to become the shadow attorney general in Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet.

Pictured (l-r): PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton, Frances Fitzgerald, Claire Sugden and Garda Commissioner Noirín O’Sullivan Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald and her Northern Ireland counterpart, Claire Sugden, have welcomed the publication of a strategy for co-operation between gardaí an

In an application before the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Denham has appointed a Notary Public for both County Cork and County Dublin, and all adjoining counties thereto. In the special circumstances regarding the appointment of a Notary Public to non-adjoining counties, Chief Justice Denham took in

The issues particular to Northern Ireland in the two Brexit challenges before the High Court in Belfast will be heard at the hearing on 4-5 October, a judge has ruled. Challenges are brought by Raymond McCord, a victims’ rights campaigner whose son was killed by loyalist paramilitaries in 1997, an

Ciarán Moynagh A bid to overturn the criminalisation of buying sex in Northern Ireland will proceed to a full hearing after leave for a judicial review was granted by the High Court this morning.

Sabine Walsh, president of the MII The Mediators' Institute of Ireland (MII) has welcomed a Government commitment to publish the Mediation Bill as a matter of priority.

Queen's University Belfast is among the top 10 universities in the UK for law, while Ulster University is in the top 35, according to The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2017. QUB clocks in at number 9 in the league table for law while Ulster University clocks in at number 33.