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Madden & Finucane Solicitors has overtaken KRW Law to top the table of legal aid payments to solicitor firms in Northern Ireland in 2014-15. They were the only two solicitor practices to receive more than £2 million in total from the legal aid fund.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has said An Garda Síochána is liaising with authorities in Brussels to counteract the threat of terrorism in the wake of multiple deadly attacks this morning.

Justice Minister David Ford Northern Ireland's Justice Minister David Ford has launched a new guide to help people with mental or emotional ill-health to access fair justice.

New analysis shows that an 8,000 jobs boost follows each one per cent growth in legal services; that £379 million is added to the economy for every one per cent growth in the UK legal services sector and that the sector grew by eight per cent from 2014 to 2015. The first ever investigation of the w

From left to right: Kate Kenneally and Sarah Browne Two associate solicitors at LK Shields will travel to Haiti next month to participate in the Haiti Build Week.

Pictured (l-r): Joanne Young from Macmillan, clinical nurse specialist Deirdre Armstrong, and CFR managing director Karen Blair Belfast law firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin (CFR) has announced a new partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support.

A&L Goodbody has won two European accolades at the Managing Partners' Forum (MPF) Awards 2016. The Irish law firm was recognised in the category of Best Community Engagement for its Dublin literacy programme and Best Use of Business Systems for developing a bespoke business bid platform.

A record number of people were sent to prison in 2015, according to new figures from the Irish Prison Service. There were a total of 17,420 prison committals last year, topping a previous record of 17,319 in 2011, with 9,800 of the committals related to non-payment of court fines.

Mike Allen, director of advocacy Homelessness charity Focus Ireland has called for a referendum on incorporating a "right to a home" into the Constitution.

Portuguese workers who were illegally underpaid for their work on an Irish road project have been awarded €1.5 million in damages. Mr Justice David Keane, sitting in the High Court in Dublin, ruled that 27 Portuguese workers are entitled to recover damages over breach of their employment contracts

Sabine Walsh, president of the MII The Mediators' Institute of Ireland (MII) has proposed the use of independent facilitation services to support the process of forming a Government.

The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Theresa Villiers, has been ordered to submit an affidavit to the High Court in Belfast in the ongoing case brought by "the Hooded Men". The surviving members of a group of men who were allegedly tortured by the British Army during the Troubles are challen

A European inquiry into the e-commerce sector has found that widespread geo-blocking could be in breach of EU antitrust rules in some cases. The European Commission has published its initial findings from research conducted as part of an ongoing antitrust sector inquiry launched last year into the e

A refugee at the centre of a high-profile abortion controversy has launched a civil action for damages against the State. Ms Y is an asylum seeker who arrived in Ireland in early 2014 and unsuccessfully sought an abortion after discovering that she had become pregnant as a result of rape in her home

The Court of Appeal has overturned an award of damages in the sum of €67,450 made by the High Court in 2014 in favour of a supermarket employee who injured herself lifting a 10kg bag of potatoes in 2011. Ms Geraldine Martin, an employee of Dunnes Stores, had been working as checkout operator, when