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Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald said proposed amendments to the Road Traffic Acts will help courts better enforce road traffic legislation.

Clíona Saidléar, executive director of RCNI The Rape Crisis Network Ireland (RCNI) supported over a thousand people in Ireland last year, according to its annual report for 2015.

Professor Gary Slapper The Times has published a full obituary for Professor Gary Slapper, who passed away on December 4 the age of 58 after suffering a ruptured aortic dissection.

The Court of Appeal in Belfast is to rule on the whether or not it is defamatory to describe someone as a "Scrooge". The question is part of a current appeal by the Sunday World newspaper, which is seeking to reverse a £50,000 libel award to a Co Down businessman it referred to as a “Scrooge”.

Dr Marie-Luce Paris Dr Marie-Luce Paris has been awarded the Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques for her work promoting legal education and research in Ireland and France.

The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal brought by Independent TD Ms Joan Collins, who challenged the constitutional basis for €31 billion in promissory notes granted to financial institutions without a Dáil vote. The six-judge court was unanimous in their ruling that the Credit Institutions (

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has welcomed figures showing a 31 per cent drop in the level of burglary crime.

Joanne Finn, head of ByrneWallace's EU, competition and regulated markets team Irish merger notifications have increased by 75 per cent since the introduction of new merger control legislation in 2014.

The Department of Finance has published a summary of its legal arguments in the high-profile Apple tax case. In August, the European Commission ruled that Ireland broke EU state aid rules by granting undue tax benefits of up to €13 billion to US tech giant Apple, and ordered that it be collected w

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Ireland has nearly overcome the legislative barriers to ratifying the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Professor Phil Scraton An academic at Queen's University Belfast who sat on the Hillsborough inquiry has called for an inquiry into prisoner deaths in Northern Ireland.

Inspector of Prisons, Judge Michael Reilly Nearly a third of Irish prisoners who have died over the past decade were on temporary release at the time, The Detail reports.

Granting an appeal brought by the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Supreme Court has ordered the retrial of a man who had previously been acquitted of burglary and arson in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Delivering the unanimous judgment of the four-judge Court, Mr Justice William McKechnie held

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has said she will bring forward legislative proposals in 2017 to deal with online communications and digital safety.

Lord Chief Justice, Sir Declan Morgan The Lord Chief Justice, Sir Declan Morgan, has reminded Government and Executive officials of their legal obligation to ensure that 56 legacy inquests go ahead.