The lead pro-Brexit campaign group Vote Leave has been fined £61,000 and referred to police by the UK's elections watchdog for breaking electoral laws on campaign spending. The Electoral Commission today published the conclusions of its investigation into the spending of Vote Leave and other campai
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A woman who was granted five hours of family access per year by the Child and Family Agency has had her Supreme Court appeal dismissed. Upholding the decision of the High Court to refuse to grant judicial review of the access arrangements in place, Mr Justice William McKechnie said the first applica
A House of Lords sub-committee has called on the UK government to propose an effective system for dispute resolution and enforcement in respect of both the proposed EU withdrawal agreement and the future UK-EU relationship. In its report published today, Dispute resolution and enforcement after Brex
New figures suggest the number of law firm breaches in handling client money fell dramatically in England and Wales last year. The number of qualified accountant's reports to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) over breaches in handling client money fell by 28 per cent to 1,387, from 1,915 in
New legislation to transpose most of the Fourth EU Money Laundering Directive into Irish law has been approved by the Cabinet. Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan yesterday received approval for his Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2018.
Photo credit: Project Arts Centre A "political" mural has been removed from the wall of the Project Arts Centre in Dublin at the behest of the Charities Regulator.
The Director of Public Prosecutions has been granted an order remitting dangerous driving proceedings to the District Court, which had previously been prosecuted summarily in error. The DPP sought to prosecute the man involved in a five-vehicle accident on indictment on a single charge of dangerous
A company which was refused planning permission for one of the tallest windfarms in the country, has been unsuccessful in its application for judicial review of the decision of An Bord Pleanála. In the High Court, Mr Justice Twomey refused to grant the applicants an order for certiorari of the Boar
Maria Miller Westminster's women and equalities committee has called for written submissions to its inquiry on sexual harassment in the workplace.
The chief executive of the Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) has said it will likely not be ready to deal with complaints until 2019. Barrister Brian Doherty, in his first interview since his appointment last September, told the Irish Independent that considerable work had to be done before
A coroner was wrong to restrict the scope of inquests into the Birmingham pub bombings, the High Court in England has ruled. Sir Peter Thornton QC has been ordered to reconsider his decision last summer to restrict the scope of the new inquests, excluding the names of the alleged perpetrators.
Niall McMullan Niall McMullan, associate partner at Worthingtons Solicitors in Belfast, examines the controversy over equal pay at the BBC.
Liam Herrick Liam Herrick, executive director at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, writes at a critical juncture for policing in Ireland.
The Board of Management of a National School in Dublin has been granted orders of certiorari quashing decisions which effectively directed the school to enrol a child in an oversubscribed class. Stating that this was “manifestly unfair” to the other unsuccessful pupils, Mr Justice Coffey agreed
A finding of the High Court that the the Department of Justice (DOJ) had failed to provide sufficient funding to the Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland (PONI) has been overturned on appeal. Emphasising that the Police (NI) Act 1998 provided the DOJ with the discretion to provide sum



