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Deirdre Malone, executive director of the IPRT The Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) has challenged the next Government to invest in communities affected by crime in order to make society safer.

Dublin District Court has dismissed charges against ten people who were accused of committing public order offences during a protest against the installation of a water meter. Independent TD Joan Collins and nine others were accused of failing to comply with a Garda's directions to leave the site of

Paul Tweed The Belfast Telegraph has apologised for publishing “a number of fundamental factual inaccuracies and defamatory inferences” about Hollywood actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.

A police officer who threatened to arrest a judge during court proceedings has been sentenced to three months in prison. Thomas Anthony Carlin, 43, was charged with contempt of court after he threatened to arrest Lord Justice Gillen during a case in which he was representing himself.

Finance Minister Mervyn Storey House prices in Northern Ireland increased by seven per cent over the past year, according to new figures published by the Department of Finance.

The High Court has found that the Minister for Social Protection erred in law and breached fair procedures, natural and constitutional justice, by failing to properly consider all of the evidence furnished by the applicant that her child was a “qualified child” under the Social Welfare Consolida

Martin Hanna, APIL's executive committee member for Northern Ireland The UK-wide Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has criticised Northern Ireland's Department of Justice (DoJ) over proposals to abolish legal aid as a method of funding legal cases for money damages.

Photo by Rob Sinclair, CC BY-SA 2.0 Former Irish solicitor Michael Lynn will be extradited to Ireland to face allegations of mortgage fraud following a ruling by the Supreme Federal Court in Brazil.

The High Court in Dublin has delivered a landmark ruling on the scope of access to environmental information. Delivering a judgment in the case of Stephen Minch -v- Commissioner for Environmental Information & Anor, Ms Justice Marie Baker said the Commissioner for Environmental Information had a

Claire Edgar Claire Edgar, partner at Belfast firm Francis Hanna & Co Solicitors, addressed the Belfast Domestic Violence Partnership conference this month.

Dr Louise Crowley of the School of Law Students in the College of Business and Law at University College Cork (UCC) will be recognised at its Work Placements Award ceremony later today.

Jo DeMars The Dublin-based wing of a new online dispute resolution service will be officially launched today in a bid to provide dispute resolution services across the EU.

Edward Spencer, associate at Taylor Wessing In a potentially landmark ruling, the English High Court has given judicial approval to the use of predictive coding in disclosure for High Court cases.

The UK Supreme Court has ruled a company’s VAT repayments, made after it overpaid VAT, are liable to corporation tax. The appellant, Shop Direct Group (SDG), is a company in the Littlewoods corporate group (the Group).

A campaigner against the drugs trade has called for the establishment of a "mini" Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) focussed on seizing the assets of drug dealers. Sue Collins, founder of Addiction Response Crumlin (ARC), issued the call at the launch of new research into intimidation by drug dealers, Th