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A national open disclosure framework for the health and social sector has been launched, applying beyond the HSE to all private health and social care providers as well as health regulators and educational bodies. The new framework was launched by health minister Stephen Donnelly at the National Pat

The imprisonment of a 45-year-old woman in England who admitted to causing her own abortion during the lockdowns was “unlikely” to be just, senior judges have said. Carla Foster was given a 28-month prison term after obtaining tablets when she was between 32 and 34 weeks pregnant.

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A court worker has been arrested after trying to approach Donald Trump in a show of support during his civil fraud trial in New York. The woman, who has not been named, has been suspended from her job as well as being charged with contempt of court and disrupting a court proceeding, CNN reports.

Human rights lawyer Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC has been selected to receive a Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad. Ms Gallagher, who began her legal career in Dublin and now practises with Doughty Street Chambers in London, is among 13 people who will receive the award from P

There is a "plausible and credible case" that Israel is attempting to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, a respected US-based legal advocacy organisation has said. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), founded in 1966 to provide legal support for the civil rights movement, published

Ireland's prison population is higher now than it was when a landmark report called for it to be reduced by a third within a decade, penal rights campaigners have highlighted. The all-party Oireachtas group on penal reform yesterday marked the 10-year anniversary of the penal reform report published

Mandatory human trafficking awareness training for those working in the security industry has been launched by the Private Security Authority (PSA). The training, which has been developed for the PSA by Mecpaths, will become mandatory for all those seeking a PSA licence to work in the door superviso

Northern Ireland personal injury and road traffic accident law firm JMK Solicitors has celebrated its 20th year in business. JMK Solicitors was established in 2003 by Newry-based businessman Jonathan McKeown, with the day-to-day running of the firm led by managing director Maurece Hutchinson and leg

Gateley Legal Northern Ireland (NI) has congratulated the first two solicitors to qualify after training in the firm's Belfast office. Sarah Blaney and Tim Nelson qualified today after completing their two-year training contracts with Gateley Legal NI while studying at the Institute of Professional

The Attorney General for Northern Ireland is not obliged to grant a fresh inquest into the death of a man killed by an IRA booby-trap because he died more than 12 years before the Human Rights Act 1998 came into force, the UK Supreme Court has ruled. Eugene Dalton was killed by an explosion in Derry

Refugee legal reforms in the UK will have a disproportionate impact on sexually diverse claimants, academics have warned. Researchers have said the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 is a missed opportunity to resolve other issues about how to make clear assessments about people’s sexual backgro

Andrew Malkinson, the man who served 17 years for a crime he did not commit, has revealed that he is penniless and living in a tent. The 57-year-old’s conviction for raping a young mother in July 2003 was quashed by the Court of Appeal in London last month, after DNA analysis associated the cr

A '90s rap star convicted of illegally funnelling foreign money to Barack Obama's election campaign and acting as a Chinese agent is seeing a retrial on the basis that his defence lawyer allegedly relied on AI to write his closing statement. Pras, best known as one of the Fugees, was found guilty la

Stalking protection orders can now be granted by the Northern Ireland courts to protect victims of stalking from an immediate risk of harm. In effect from today, the new orders — also known as SPOs — will allow police to intervene early in an investigation, prior to any conviction of sta