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The Courts Service of Ireland is now hand-delivering letters to addresses in Limerick where repossession orders are to be made, the Irish Independent reports. Eight letters have reportedly been hand-delivered in Limerick by an appointed messenger since the start of the year.

Pictured (l-r): Brian Dolaghan, Invest NI; Alan Hunter, Law Society Chief Executive; Brian Speers, DRS Chair; Anne Beggs, Invest NI; Colum Eastwood MLA; and Michael Bready, Mediator/Barrister The mediation service administered by the Law Society of Northern Ireland has received accreditation from th

Judith Allen TLT has appointed Judith Allen as a real estate partner. She will be working from the firm's Belfast office.

A disabled man who was unable to board a bus because a mother with a buggy refused to vacate the space has had his appeal unanimously allowed, albeit to a limited extent, by judges in the UK Supreme Court. The appeal concerns the lawfulness of a bus company’s policy in relation to the use of the s

A man who broke into a house and murdered a couple and their son before raping their daughter suffered no violation of his article 3 right – prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment – judges in the European Court of Human Rights have ruled by 14 votes to 3. The case concerned a complaint by

President Barack Obama Chelsea Manning, the US soldier jailed for leaking classified information to WikiLeaks, will be released this May.

Facebook has succeeded in its appeal against an award of £20,000 in compensation, which the High Court held it was liable to pay to a convicted sex offender for misuse of private information. In finding that Facebook could only be held liable for a limited 10-day period in which information about t

Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire The Northern Ireland Assembly is set to be dissolved from Thursday 26 January ahead of an early election on Thursday 2 March.

Freda Grealy More Irish law schools are signing up for the Law Society of Ireland's successful Street Law programme, the Irish Examiner reports.

The lifetime ban on blood donation by men who have sex with men (MSM) was lifted yesterday. Under the new rules, a man who last had sex with another man more than 12 months ago will now be able to donate blood if he meets the other blood donor selection criteria.

The number of Northern Ireland businesses brought before the Industrial Tribunal increased by 28 per cent last year, The Irish News reports. Figures released following a Freedom of Information (FOI) request show 3,030 cases were brought in the year to 31 March 2016, relating to unfair dismissal, wag

Dublin solicitor Barry Lyons is being pursued in court by AIB, who are seeking a €4.7 million judgment over alleged unpaid loans, The Irish Times reports. Mr Justice Brian McGovern has transferred the proceedings to the Commercial Court with Mr Lyons' consent.

Matthew Jury, managing partner at McCue & Partners Lawyers acting for the families of the three off-duty Scottish soldiers who were killed by the Provisional IRA in 1971 have threatened legal action to bring their killers to justice.

High Court judge Mr Justice Seamus Noonan has blamed "misinformation" for a series of judicial review applications which he dismissed yesterday. According to The Irish Times, Mr Justice Noonan dismissed several similar applications for a judicial review of repossession orders issued by Circuit Court

A woman who alleged that she was raped by two professional footballers has been awarded £100,000 damages in the first case of its kind in Scotland. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that both Scotland international David Goodwillie and his former Dundee United teammate David Robertson took adva