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Mark Orr QC Northern Ireland's Justice Minister Claire Sugden has appointed Mark Orr QC as Presiding Member to the Civil Legal Services Appeal Panels.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald A legal definition of consent could be incorporated into the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill, the Irish Examiner reports.

Labour leader Brendan Howlin The Sale of Alcohol Bill has been indefinitely delayed "due to other priorities", Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has said.

At the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow last week, President of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger, reflected on constitutional changes across the UK over the last twenty years, and the role of the UK Supreme Court in relation to devolution cases in particular. Read the full lecture here.

Professor Richard Susskind Professor Richard Susskind has called for a slow and modest introduction of an online court, Legal Futures reports.

The Probation Board for Northern Ireland (PBNI) has opened a new office in Downpatrick, where it shares the same building as the Youth Justice Agency (YJA).

In the High Court in Belfast, Justice Maguire dismissed two judicial review challenges in Northern Ireland to the way the Government intends to invoke Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union to trigger withdrawal from the EU. In August 2016, two applications for judicial review of the Government&

A legal challenge to Brexit that was rejected by the High Court in Belfast will be appealed all the way to the UK Supreme Court. Solicitor Ciaran O'Hare of McIvor Farrell Solicitors, representing victims' campaigner Raymond McCord, said: "No single precedent exists that categorically proves or dispr

Independent Alliance minister Shane Ross The Independent Alliance is pushing for legislation to reform Ireland's judicial appointments process to be passed by June next year, The Sunday Times reports.

Lord Chief Justice, Sir Declan Morgan County courts and magistrates' courts now exercise jurisdiction throughout Northern Ireland under reforms that took effect yesterday.

John Costello, chairman of the Parole Board Three life prisoners with mental health issues were denied parole last year because community supports were not available, the Parole Board has revealed.

Human rights and sex workers' rights advocates have criticised the prosecution of four Romanian women who gardaí believe were trafficked to Ireland to work in brothels. The four women, aged 21, 22, 23 and 30, pleaded guilty to charges of brothel-keeping at a special sitting of Galway District Court

The extension of the period of validity of existing state aid must be regarded as the alteration of that aid and, therefore, as new aid, the Court of Justice of the Europen Union has held. In 1960, DEI, a public electricity company, entered into a contract with Alouminion, a Greek company specialise

Michael Johnston Belfast firm Carson McDowell has been named Regional Law Firm of the Year by The Legal 500 – the second time it has won the accolade in the past three years.

In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court has held that Northern Ireland fishing vessels cannot legally fish or harvest mussel seed in the territorial waters of the State. Despite the acquiescence of State authorities for a number of decades, and the reciprocity afforded to Irish vessels in NI wate