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Two legal challenges to Brexit are set to go before the senior judicial review judge at the High Court in Belfast on Monday. Raymond McCord, a prominent victims' rights campaigner whose son was killed by loyalist paramilitaries in 1997, lodged his application for judicial review last month. He has b

Lord Chief Justice, Sir Declan Morgan The office of the Lord Chief Justice, Sir Declan Morgan, joins Twitter on Monday.

Lawyers and security experts yesterday addressed more than 50 IT professionals on the upcoming EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) at a seminar in Dublin.

The Department of Justice has provided compensation to three women who were caught up as schoolchildren in the Holy Cross dispute in north Belfast in 2001, the Belfast Telegraph reports. Catholic primary school children at Holy Cross Girls' School faced weeks of loyalist protests on their way to sch

The UK Supreme Court has published a quartet of lectures delivered by Lord Neuberger (pictured) in Singapore. The first, delivered at the National University of Singapore, is entitled "Has the identity of the English Common Law been eroded by EU Laws and the European Convention on Human Rights?"

The High Court has refused to remit a summary judgment of more than €6 million to plenary hearing, because the secretary of the company against which the judgment was made could not prove Allied Irish Bank (AIB) had been negligent in failing to provide him with independent legal advice when he sig

Finance Minister Michael Noonan Finance Minister Michael Noonan yesterday failed to persuade his Cabinet colleagues to back an appeal aimed at overturning the European Commission's €13 billion tax ruling against Ireland and Apple.

Revised proposals to establish a common system for calculating the tax base of businesses operating in the EU are expected to be brought forward by the European Commission in November. The Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB) was first proposed in 2011, and the Commission announced in June

David Mulholland The Bar of Northern Ireland has taken up a 4,000 sq ft space in Belfast City Centre to provide the base for Northern Ireland's first specialist mediation centre.

A campaign group has raised concerns over the possible political vetting of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to the Northern Ireland Executive, The Irish News reports. The Campaign for Freedom of Information said some departments only release responses to FOI requests after approval by minister

Health Minister Michelle O'Neill Northern Ireland's lifetime ban on the donation of blood by men who have had sex with men (MSM) has officially been lifted today.

Committee chair Maria Miller The UK House of Commons’ Women and Equalities Committee has called for women in the UK to have protections similar to those in Germany after a “shocking” increase in workplace pregnancy discrimination over the past decade.

The High Court in Belfast has awarded compensation of £50,000 to a former hotelier after defamatory comments were published in the Sunday World newspaper. Justice Stephens held that the newspaper did not meet the standards of responsible journalism in failing to verify sources, and had erroneously

Finance Minister Michael Noonan Finance Minister Michael Noonan will today seek Cabinet approval for an appeal against the European Commission's ruling that the State must collect €13 billion in unpaid tax from US tech giant Apple.

Prime Minister Theresa May Prime Minister Theresa May is today chairing a Cabinet meeting on Brexit to discuss the best approach to the UK's exit from the EU.