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The Supreme Court has upheld a decision to surrender a man who had been sentenced in the UK to life imprisonment in 1984 for the murder of his neighbour back to the UK, finding that while the UK system with regards to life sentences would be unconstitutional in Ireland, it did not justify Ireland re

Children's Minister Dr Katherine Zappone Legislation to revise adoption law in the wake of the children's referendum in 2012 is the first bill to go before the 32nd Dáil.

Gerry McAlinden QC, chairman of the Bar Council The Bar of Northern Ireland has welcomed the arrival of 108 new MLAs following the elections on 5 May.

Dublin firm Reddy Charlton has appointed Godfrey Hogan as a new principal consultant, recruiting him from Woods Hogan Solicitors, where he had served as managing partner since 2012.

A judge has told a sitting of Belmullet District Court that case management in Northern Ireland is much better than in the south, The Mayo News reports. Judge Conal Gibbons last week refused to hear a case which would have taken between two and three hours to complete because there were too many oth

Legal rights group FLAC has urged the Oireachtas housing and homelessness committee to take action to avert the threat of homelessness to 30,000 households in long-term arrears on their mortgages. Senior policy analyst Paul Joyce, legal and policy officer Ciaran Finlay, and Public Interest Law Allia

Bella Sankey, director of policy for Liberty A coalition of more than 130 of the UK’s most prominent organisations – ranging from religious and professional bodies to law firms, unions, environmental charities and the families of terrorism victims – have publicly committed to oppose any attemp

Former Attorney General Dominic Grieve QC MP An independent report concluding that the repeal of the Human Rights Act is likely to breach the Good Friday Agreement was launched in Westminster yesterday.

Amnesty International has said figures showing over 800 women from Northern Ireland travelled to Britain for abortions in 2015 prove the law is failing women. Figures published by the UK's Department of Health show that 833 women from Northern Ireland travelled to England and Wales for the procedure

Alasdair Robertson, president of the Cayman Islands Law Society The Cayman Islands Law Society and the Caymanian Bar Association have endorsed the anti-corruption statement released by UK and Irish professional bodies including the Law Society of Scotland, the Law Society of England and Wales, the I

The standard property price in Northern Ireland has fallen for the first time in six years, according to the Department of Finance. The standard property price now stands at £117,500, which is still around 6 per cent higher than at the same time last year.

The Supreme Court has given leave for a respondent in an appeal to rely on additional grounds, despite not including them in the respondent notice, finding that a degree of latitude should be given in light of the Court being in a transitional phase. The judgment related to one set of issues arising

Dublin councillor Ciarán Cuffee Most court summonses sent to people in central Dublin for littering are returned unsigned, The Irish Times reports.

The Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) has published a report on Ireland for a new European pre-trial detention project coordinated by Fair Trials International. The project, which has funding from the European Commission, is titled The Practice of Pre-Trial Detention: Monitoring Alternatives and Judic

Pictured (l-r): Professor Donncha O’Connell, Ruth Cormican and Dr Conor Hanly Ruth Cormican, an LLB student at NUI Galway’s School of Law, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study for an LLM in International Human Rights Law at the University of Notre Dame.