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The Law Society of Ireland is inviting applications for its Access programme, which provides financial and practical supports to help people from underrepresented backgrounds to pursue a career as a solicitor. The Access programme aims to assist students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgro

Northern Ireland's justice and health ministers have been pressed to set out a clear timetable for the implementation of capacity law reforms passed by MLAs nearly a decade ago. Part 5 of the Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016, which provides for lasting powers of attorney covering care, tr

The personal injuries guidelines system will "inevitably begin to fray" if the government continues to veto inflation-based increases in awards, the chief justice has warned at the opening of the new legal year. Chief Justice Donal O'Donnell said it was "simply counter-productive" to prevent the gui

The UK's opposition Conservative Party has mounted an unprecedented attack on sitting judges, accusing dozens of immigration judges of political bias. Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, yesterday questioned whether judges who had previously supported or volunteered for charities providing

A motorist who swore he was holding a chocolate bar and not a mobile phone when pulled over by a garda has been given the benefit of the doubt. Daniel Fahy, 30, told Gort District Court that he was eating a Mars bar while making a handsfree phone call during the disputed incident in February.

A senior leader of a Sudanese militia has been convicted at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on 27 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes in the early 2000s. The conviction of Janjaweed leader Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman is the first conviction in the situation in Darfur, Sudan, a

Footage showing an enormous fire engulfing the home of a senior US judge has gone viral on social media, amid fears the blaze could have been caused by politically-motivated arson attack. Investigators are still working to establish the cause of the devastating fire at the home of South Carolina Sup

Professionals would overwhelmingly prefer judges to juries in defamation cases, a survey by business law firm Mason Hayes & Curran has found. The firm surveyed 140 attendees at its dispute resolution conference, of whom 95 per cent said they considered a judge would deliver more predictable outc

Disclosure policies and practices should be re-examined in response to the "relentless growth in digital data", the director of public prosecutions has said. Writing in the foreword to her office's latest annual report, Catherine Pierse said the volume of digital evidence remained a "key challenge"

Medical professionals have again urged the government to implement pre-action protocols to speed up clinical negligence claims, nearly a decade since the passing of legislation paving the way for their introduction. Dr Rob Hendry, chief member officer and medical director at the Medical Protection S

A major milestone for Ireland’s planning reform agenda has been triggered with the commencement of the latest chapters of the Planning and Development Act 2024. The latest commencements on Thursday provide the statutory basis for both the National Planning Framework (NPF) and Regional Spatial

New resources have been launched to help children and families better understand and prepare for appearing before a youth court in Northern Ireland. The resources include a child-friendly video of what they can expect, and ‘virtual courtroom tours’ which show what the main courts look li

Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC has been appointed to the advisory board of a new US-based press freedom organisation. The Press Freedom Center at the National Press Club was launched in November 2024 and provides critical services to journalists, including emergency assistance, immigration and legal suppo

A conference on censorship was cancelled after participants objected to diktats on what they could and could not say in their presentations. The conference, titled "Redacted: Navigating the Complexities of Censorship", was set to take place at Weber Sate University in the US state of Utah on 2 and 3

Plans to transpose the controversial EU Pact on Migration and Asylum into Irish law have major human rights gaps, according to a new analysis. The Coalition on the EU Migration Pact, composed of 10 civil society organisations, has published an in-depth analysis of the general scheme of the Internati