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Taoiseach Enda Kenny Taoiseach Enda Kenny has told a high-level UN climate summit that new legislation to be passed before the upcoming general election will help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Ireland.

Education Minister John O'Dowd New legislation that creates a legal definition of bullying and new responsibilities for public authorities in a bid to crack down on bullying in schools has been introduced to the Northern Ireland Assembly.

The High Court in Northern Ireland has found that the outright ban on abortion breaches Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, in that it denies women and girls who are victims of rape and incest, as well as those suffering from fatal foetal abnormalities access to legal abortions. Th

A former employee of Guinness is to be allowed to continue with his case against the company – in which he claims certain assurances made about his pension arrangements have not been honoured. Mr Owen Traynor worked for Guinness for 35 years before accepting voluntary redundancy in 2002.

Photo credit: Vivian Geiran, via Twitter Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald today joined figures from across the justice sector at the launch of the Joint Agency Response to Crime (J-ARC), an inter-agency initiative to reduce re-offending and tackle burglary offences in Ireland.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald is set to approve the piloting of a new scheme that would divert adults accused of minor offences from the courts into education, rehabilitation or community programmes, the Irish Independent reports.

Pictured (l-r): Ian O'Herlihy and Stephen Gillick Mason Hayes & Curran has announced the appointment of Stephen Gillick as a partner in its employment law and benefits team.

Justice Minister David Ford Almost half of prisoners released from custody in Northern Ireland in 2012/13 went on to re-offend, according to new figures published by Justice Minister David Ford.

Ms Justice Iseult O'Malley TV3 has been told it must pay half of a €140,000 damages award to a Dublin lawyer pending the outcome of an appeal.

The Legal Services Agency is set to embark on its most high-profile bid to recover legal costs using a Recovery of Defence Costs Order, the Belfast Telegraph reports. Jimmy Seales is being pursued for £100,478 which he received in legal aid in order to fund his defence, marking the first time that

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has warned that figures showing a 36 per cent increase in the number of sexual offences recorded in Ireland over the period 2009-13 may be misleading. New crime statistics published by the CSO show that a total of 2,010 sexual offences were recorded in 2013, a dro

A senior lecturer at Maynooth University has written about redress for human rights breaches in Ireland in a chapter of a new book analysing the law in eighteen jurisdictions. Dr Noelle Higgins, who lectures in international criminal law, public international law, and The Rights of Minorities and In

NIHRC Chief Commissioner Les Allamby The High Court in Belfast has ruled that preventing access to abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities (FFA) and pregnancies as a consequence of sexual crimes is unlawful.

A man has lost his appeal to the Supreme Court against an order for his surrender to the United Kingdom authorities under the European Arrest Warrant procedure. Jason Buckley’s surrender is sought for the purpose of prosecution for a single offence of conspiracy to cause explosions.

The Government of Ireland is likely to agree to the appointment of four further judges to the Court of Appeal in a bid to ease its heavy workload, the Irish Independent reports. The court, which began hearing cases just over a year ago, receives an average of 60 new civil appeals every month on top