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The Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone has been awarded £48,750.00 after a Sinn Féin politician posted a defamatory statement about him on Twitter in May 2014. Philip Flanagan, a Sinn Féin MLA, published a tweet about Thomas Elliot MP, a member of the Ulster Unionist Party.

The High Court has ordered the extradition of a 27-year-old man from Wicklow to the United States, where he is wanted for various offences in connection to his alleged employment as an administrator for an anonymous online marketplace renowned for providing narcotics and weaponry, which was conseque

The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal brought by a man who challenged the High Court’s construction of his father’s Will. In her judgement, Justice Laffoy found that the specific clause, which allowed the man to benefit from farmlands “until” an uncertain time, intended to create a determi

Social housing sector tenants who challenged the so called “bedroom tax” have received a mixed outcome at the UK Supreme Court. Lord Neuberger, Lady Hale, Lord Mance, Lord Sumption, Lord Carnwath, Lord Hughes and Lord Toulson heard the cases, which relate to the cap on housing benefit introduced

A 39-year-old man given a five-year sentence following his conviction for sexual assault of his younger sister over a period of six years in the 1990s has failed in his challenge to the severity of his sentence in the Court of Appeal. Delivering the judgment, Mr Justice Edwards rejected the argument

The drunk driver who killed Enda Dolan, the 18-year-old first-year architecture student at Queen's University, has had his sentence increased by two years after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) challenged the overly generous mitigation in the man’s sentencing. In a reference by the DPP un

A financial controller who stole €270,000 from a solicitors' firm to pay off her ex-husband’s gambling debts has been jailed for 18 months. Counsel for Donna Magee asked that she be given a week before starting her sentence in order to make arrangements for her 14-year-old child. This was refuse

Newspapers that challenged orders for costs made following trial have had their appeals unanimously dismissed by justices in the Supreme Court. Lord Neuberger gave the lead judgment, with which Lord Mance, Lord Sumption, Lord Hughes and Lord Hodge agreed.

A writer has lost a High Court action alleging negligence and other unlawful conduct against a solicitor he instructed in protracted proceedings against Roddy Doyle and the Abbey Theatre. Finding that there was no causal link between the professional losses suffered by the writer and the actions of

Andrew Kirke Andrew Kirke, associate director at Tughans, explores how likely it is that robots will replace lawyers in the not-too-distant future.

Professor Colin Harvey and Mark Bassett Professor Colin Harvey from QUB School of Law and barrister Mark Bassett offer their view on whether Irish citizens abroad should have a right to vote in Presidential elections.

Ciara McLoughlin Ciara McLoughlin, partner in A&L Goodbody's employment group, writes on the controversy surrounding the publication of BBC salaries earlier this month.

A garda detective has been found guilty of harassing a State solicitor by sending her abusive letters and emails. Eve Doherty, 49, a detective sergeant based in Dublin, had pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to a charge of harassing Elizabeth Howlin between September 2011 and March

A boy who was found guilty of numerous dangerous driving charges involving stolen vehicles, has been given a Deferment of Detention Order in the District Court. In a recently published judgment, Judge John O’Connor stated that, since the child had engaged well recently with his Bail Support and wi

A man accused of breaching the terms of his contract with his former employer, by “assisting recruitment” and supplying confidential information to the company he moved to, has been ordered to make discovery of all documents “reasonably available to him by means of a data subject access reques