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Deputy President of the UK Supreme Court, Lady Hale The UK’s most senior female judge has backed calls for targets to increase diversity in the ranks of the senior judiciary.

Justice Minister David Ford Northern Ireland's Justice Minister David Ford has dismissed suggestions that parts of court proceedings could be streamed live over the Internet.

Pictured (l-r): Actress Laine Megaw, Nichola Coghlan, competition judge Colin Mitchell, Ellen Forester, and competition judge David Gaston Two trainees from the Institute of Professional Legal Studies (IPLS) have triumphed in the regional heat of the Louis M. Brown and Forrest S. Mosten Internationa

Dr Brian O’Dwyer, senior partner at law firm O’Dwyer and Bernstein An Irish-American teacher has filed a legal complaint after a parent-teacher conference was scheduled to coincide with St Patrick's Day in spite of his protests.

The Governor of Mountjoy Prison has won an appeal against an order releasing a prisoner, following an inaccurate certificate being issued for his detention. The Court of Appeal ordered the issue to be remitted to theHigh Court, allowing the Governor to apply to have the certificate amended. Mr Patri

Geraldine Hanna, the chief executive of Victim Support NI A leading charity supporting victims in Northern Ireland has called for a focus on "reforms to the criminal justice system" ahead of the Northern Ireland Assembly election.

Ireland's courts are facing an eight-month backlog of Ward of Court applications, the Sunday Independent reports. Solicitors have recently been told that it will take eight months in order to complete the process, which is used to put the president of the High Court in charge of the welfare and asse

Pictured (l-r) Dr. Theresa Donaldson, John Guerin, Councillor Thomas Beckett, Alan Hunter and Alderman James Tinsley. The Law Society of Northern Ireland has met with representatives of Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council to discuss the impending closure of Lisburn Court House.

Pictured (l-r): Cllr Paul McAuliffe and Niall Collins TD Fianna Fáil set out proposals to reform the justice system at the launch of its new policy document, Supporting Victims, this morning.

Pictured (l-r): Mr Justice Seamus Noonan, Kevin Flood, Colum Holland and Joe Kelly of A&L Goodbody Trinity College Dublin (TCD) law students Kevin Flood and Colum Holland have triumphed in a moot court competition.

Justice Minister David Ford Northern Ireland's Justice Minister David Ford has met with Lynne Owens, the new director general of the National Crime Agency (NCA).

Mason Hayes & Curran has invited third level students in Ireland to participate in its inaugural tech law writing contest. Students are invited to submit 500-600 word essays on Technology, Media and Communications Law, Intellectual Property, Data Security or Data Protection with the winner in wi

An appeal by the PSNI officer who attempted to arrest a judge during court proceedings against his three month prison sentence has been adjourned for a week. Thomas Anthony Carlin, 43, sought leave to appeal his sentence to the UK Supreme Court at a specially convened hearing in Belfast at 7pm on Fr

A man has lost his appeal against the High Court’s dismissal of his negligence claim against the Minister for Defence, after the Supreme Court reaffirmed the High Court’s position that there had been inordinate and inexcusable delay. The appellant Peter McGarry’s claim had been that he had suf

Ciarán Moynagh of McLernon Moynagh Solicitors A legal challenge to the Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Criminal Justice and Support for Victims) Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 was adjourned for over three weeks at a hearing in Belfast this morning.