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A former solicitor who admitted theft, fraud and forgery offences worth a total loss of more than €300,000 has been jailed for four years with two suspended. Judge Sean Ó Donnabháin, sitting in Cork Circuit Court, told Mark Cronin, formerly of Cronin Mungovan Solicitors in Macroom, that it was n

The president of the District Court has hit out at media outlets for carrying "inaccurate, incorrect, unbalanced and incomplete" reports on road traffic cases. The remarks, thought to refer to widespread reports indicating only 40 per cent of drink driving cases before District Court judges led to c

One in three of Ireland's top 20 law firms were the subject of cyber attacks in the last 12 months, according to a major report by Smith & Williamson. The accountancy firm's Survey of Irish Law Firms 2015/16 report found that one in five of all Irish law firms had reported attempted or successfu

Michael Lowry Ex-government minister Michael Lowry has lodged papers for two new High Court proceedings connected to the 2011 Moriarty Tribunal, The Irish Times reports.

Pádraig Ó Muirigh of Ó Muirigh Solicitors Ian Paisley MP is set to make a charitable donation as part of a libel settlement with Martina Anderson MEP, the High Court in Belfast has heard.

King's Inns has announced a new advanced diploma course on The Democratic Process and Electoral Law which is set to commence in January 2016. The course, billed as "the first of its kind in Ireland", is designed to enable participants to navigate the complexities of Ireland's electoral and parliamen

Dr Delia Ferri Dr Delia Ferri, a lecturer at Maynooth University Department of Law, has been appointed as an affiliated researcher of the Dirpolis Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy.

The Court of Appeal has found that the High Court incorrectly granted itself jurisdiction under the Guardianship of Infants Act 1964 when ordering a father to make additional payments to the mother of his children to cover her legal fees in an ongoing legal dispute over the maintenance of their chil

Brian Keegan, director of taxation at CAI Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI) has warned the Government that plans to freeze property tax in Ireland could potentially be challenged in court.

Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe Gardaí will be equipped with new drug testing machines next year in a bid to crack down on drug driving, Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe has said.

Chief Commissioner Les Allamby The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) will today take over as chair of the Commonwealth Forum of National Human Rights Institutions.

An Garda Síochána needs to recruit more women and people from an ethnic minority background in order to better reflect Irish society, new figures show. Figures released by Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald show that only a quarter of gardaí are women, while a forthcoming report by the Garda Ins

A solicitor based in Limerick has been awarded €55,000 after an employment tribunal found she had been constructively dismissed by a local legal practice. Roisin O'Connell, who had been given a full position in Melvyn Hanley Solicitors in 2001, resigned in 2013 after her employer broke promises an

Justice Minister David Ford has praised the work of Victim Support NI while addressing attendees at its Annual General Meeting in Clifton House, Belfast. The theme of the event was Supporting people affected by crime in Northern Ireland.

Alex Salmond Scotland's former First Minister, Alex Salmond MP, is set to be presented with the Praeses Elit Award by the Trinity College Dublin (TCD) Law Society later today.