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Post Office operators in Northern Ireland have been urged by the inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal to share their experiences in a survey by this time next week. Up to 16,000 people from across the UK — including all current sub-postmasters and Horizon Shortfall scheme applicants — hav

Former McCann FitzGerald chief John Cronin has been appointed as chair of the Abbey Theatre. Mr Cronin, a former chairperson of the law firm and its managing partner from 2007 to 2015, will serve a four-year term as chair of the national theatre's board.

A man has been jailed for shoplifting nearly 800 Cadbury's Crème Eggs. Layton Richards, 29, was charged with 24 offences after stealing the chocolate from 19 different shops in the south of England between January and April.

Human rights campaigners have welcomed the release of 16 people, including Irish citizen Paul Whelan, in the largest prisoner swap between Russia and the West since the Cold War. Those pardoned, released and exiled from Russia and Belarus include Russian activists and human rights defenders Oleg Orl

High Court inspectors have found no breaches of company law in their investigation into the business and governance of Independent News & Media (INM). The Corporate Enforcement Authority (CEA) has published the report of Seán Gillane SC and Richard Fleck CBE, who were appointed as inspect

Three Irish barristers will travel to the US this month to help exonerate wrongfully convicted people in Wisconsin and Florida after being awarded scholarships. Simon Wilson BL, Róisín O’Mara BL, and Gemma McLoughlin Burke BL have been named by The Bar of Ireland as the recipient

Gardaí will begin to use body-worn cameras in Limerick in a further expansion of a pilot scheme. The technology has been used in Dublin since early June and will be trialled in Waterford later this year, ahead of a national rollout.

An English lawyer has sworn a courtroom oath on a river instead of a holy book in what is believed to be a legal first. Paul Powlesland, a barrister who founded and chairs the River Roding Trust, made the oath in order to serve as a juror in a trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court.

An Indian couple who worked for several months without receiving pay have been awarded over €45,000 by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC). Crushell & Co Solicitors acted for Anoushka Anilkumar Parmar and Tushar Joshi, who took separate claims against Dublin-based technology company Cl

There are “systemic weaknesses” in the way English juries make decisions and these are likely to be contributing to the conviction of innocent people, failures to convict the guilty, and inequalities, new research warns. The current legal rules involving procedure and evidence are not co

A former chairman of the National Association of General Practitioners (NAGP) has pleaded guilty to company law offences following an investigation by the Corporate Enforcement Authority (CEA). Dr Andrew Jordan, former chairman and secretary of the now-defunct NAGP, appeared in the Criminal Courts o

Thousands of Yazidi survivors of atrocities by the Islamic State armed group (IS) remain missing, Amnesty International said ahead of the 10-year anniversary of IS’s attack on the Yazidi community in Iraq.

Letterkenny solicitor Annabel Caldwell has established a new firm, Caldwell-McGlynn Legal. The firm offers a wide range of legal services including property, commercial leases, wills and probate.

The ISPCA has urged ministers to abolish the issuing of hare coursing licences and put an end to the "cruel, outdated and barbaric practice". The charity says it believes allowing the practice to continue is incompatible with the animal welfare strategy published by the Department of Agriculture, Fo

The European Commission has formally confirmed Ireland's participation in the controversial EU Pact on Migration and Asylum. Ireland is opting-in to seven legal acts under the Pact: the Reception Conditions Directive, Qualification Regulation, Asylum Procedure Regulation, Union Resettlement Framewor