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The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) has published documents from the 1980s which show, among other things, the importance assigned by the Northern Ireland Office to the implementation of the Fair Employment Act 1989. Then-Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Brooke said in a letter to G

Organisations have been invited to host events at the Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival in December 2016. The festival, organised by the Human Rights Consortium since 2012, starts on 4 December and ends on Human Rights Day, 10 December 2016.

Maria Hennessy, legal officer at the Irish Refugee Council Independent Law Centre The Irish Refugee Council has called on the Government to honour its commitment to relocate asylum seekers from Greece and Italy following a fact-finding mission in Greece.

Declan Black, managing partner at Mason Hayes & Curran Dublin firm Mason Hayes & Curran is sponsoring this year's Plain English Awards, which rewards organisations that communicate clearly and offers free plain English training to those who don’t.

European Commission inspectors have warned that Ireland is not fully adhering to EU regulations on the testing of genetically modified (GMO) food products. Officials from the European Commission's directorate-general for health and food safety reported on a visit to the Public Analyst's Laboratory (

A legal financing start-up that uses an algorithm designed to calculate a would-be litigant's likelihood of winning a case has won a $100,000 grant from the Thiel Foundation. Legalist uses an algorithm designed by two Harvard undergraduates to determine whether a case can win.

The High Court has ordered the extradition of a 27-year-old man from Wicklow to the United States, where he is wanted for various offences in connection to his alleged employment as an administrator for an anonymous online marketplace renowned for providing narcotics and weaponry, which was conseque

Economy Minister Simon Hamilton Global law firms expanding their Northern Ireland operations have been granted almost £3 million through Invest NI over the past five years, The Irish News reports.

Sports Minister Shane Ross Talks over the retired judge who will chair the non-statutory inquiry into the ongoing Olympics ticket controversy are set to continue.

Conor Faughnan, director of consumer affairs at AA Irish drivers have endorsed the idea of courts ordering traffic offenders back to driving school instead of handing out penalty points.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) recorded 44 disruptions of organised crime and made 36 arrests in its first year of full operation in Northern Ireland, new figures show. The NCA became fully operational in Northern Ireland in May 2015 and works closely with the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PS

On average, women in paid work in the UK receive about 18 per cent less per hour than men, according to a new report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). The IFS research, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, shows that the wage gap is smaller when comparing young women – before they be

Grace Murphy, an associate in the litigation and dispute resolution department at Beauchamps Solicitors, specialises in medical negligence - but last week, she showed her expertise in another field.

In an extensive and detailed judgment in the High Court, a Council’s decision to reject the planning application for a major housing scheme in South Dublin has been quashed. The property development company had applied for planning permission for the €75m development in 2015, which was rejected

Mrs Justice Susan Denham Senior members of the judiciary, including the Chief Justice of Ireland, Mrs Justice Susan Denham, have appealed to Dublin City Council to scrap plans for a park on land earmarked for the new family courts complex.