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Government ministers from the UK and Ireland have re-affirmed their commitment to justice and security co-operation after Brexit. Tánaiste and Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald met UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd and Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire in London yesterday.

The High Court in Belfast will tomorrow hear a judicial review against the Northern Ireland Executive over its failure to adopt an Irish language strategy. Conradh na Gaeilge was granted leave in May 2016 to challenge the Executive over what they say is a failure to live up to commitments made in th

Amal Clooney Lebanese-British human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has been nominated for the 2017 Tipperary International Peace Prize.

Barristers Kathy Downey and Peter Canavan have been named as winners of the Family Bar Association essay competition, now re-titled in memory of Her Honour Judge Corinne Philpott QC.

Michael Graham Michael Graham, head of the private client team at Belfast firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin Solicitors, has been elected to a STEP committee on legal capacity.

A man who served five years for possession of heroin with intent to supply, has been unsuccessful in his appeal to the Supreme Court in which he claimed that the solicitors representing him at his criminal trial were liable for worry and stress in the week running up to his trial in 1999. The man cl

Eilis Barry Legal rights campaigners have welcomed a compensation award for a family residing in Direct Provision as an important vindication of their arguments that the system is failing people.

Holmes O'Malley Sexton Solicitors has welcomed four new lawyers to its Dublin office team at its new premises at 2 Ely Place.

David Sturgess Belfast firm Edwards & Co. Solicitors has announced the appointment of David Sturgess as a partner and head of the firm's property team.

Ken Murphy The director general of the Law Society of Ireland has begun serving on the Bar Issues Commission within the International Bar Association (IBA), the Society's Gazette reports.

Dublin firm Mason Hayes & Curran has launched a new mobile phone app to assist Irish lawyers in keeping track of their completed CPD hours. MY CPD Manager allows users to create records of events they have attended, which can be provided to the Law Society of Ireland or other organisations.

A new free booklet on farm succession planning has been published by JPH Law Solicitors. The firm, which has four offices across counties Down and Armagh, has produced the Guide to Farm Succession Planning to help family-owned farms put a succession plan in place.

Fleur van Leeuwen Campaigners calling for stricter laws on inquests for maternal deaths heard from a leading human rights expert at their conference over the weekend.

A woman who suffered severe lacerations to her leg while attending a masquerade ball in Belle Isle Castle has lost her £100,000 claim against the company owning the popular Fermanagh venue. In the High Court in Belfast, Mr Justice Ben Stephens found that the company was not liable for Ms Brown’s

There are more than 10,000 solicitors with certificates to practise in Ireland for the first time ever, according to the Law Society of Ireland. There was a four per cent increase in the number of people holding practising certificates in 2016.