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Members of the Belfast Solicitors' Association (BSA) are out in force for the Belfast City Marathon on Monday in support of Inspire.

Sam Gyimah The UK government has announced plans to crack down "no-platforming" and "safe spaces" on university campuses out of concern that the practices undermine free speech.

A black man who was forced to pay upfront at a Chinese restaurant has won a €6,500 pay-out after a successful discrimination suit. Emile Wickham and three of his friends were told by a waiter that paying upfront was restaurant policy, but they asked other diners and discovered they were the only c

A Garda informant who was arrested in France in 2000 on drug trafficking charges has been successful in his application to use sensitive documents in challenging his surrender to France on foot of a European Arrest Warrant. Discovery of the documents had been granted in a case brought by the informa

Órla Kelly A medical negligence lawyer has warned that Vicky Phelan's high-profile case against the HSE over failures to detect her terminal cervical cancer is just "the tip of the iceberg".

Tanya Ward The Oireachtas justice committee has voted down proposals to amend the Data Protection Bill 2018 to set the digital age of consent at 16.

A High Court judge has criticised media commentary which he said described sentencing in rape cases as “opaque and not transparent”. Mr Justice Tony Hunt made his remarks on Monday during the sentencing of a man who sexually molested his 13-year-old cousin when he was aged 15.

Derry couple Michael Harkin and Donna McCool have lost their case in the first-ever UK Supreme Court judgment handed down in Northern Ireland. The five-judge appeal court, led by Deputy President Lord Mance, handed down a majority decision in their appeal against confiscation orders made by Derry Cr

Two prominent barristers are set to take part in a debate later this month on how victims' and suspects' rights can be reconciled. Maria McDonald BL, a founding member of the Victims' Rights Alliance (VRA), will discuss the issue with Mary Rose Gearty SC, vice-chairman of the Bar Council of Ireland,

The High Court has ruled that Facebook cannot stall the referral of 11 questions on EU-US data transfers to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), The Irish Times reports. Ms Justice Caroline Costello agreed last October to a request from the Data Protection Commissioner to make the refe

Evidence disclosure in criminal trials is a “complete mess”, a top criminal barrister has said. Angela Rafferty QC, chairwoman of the Criminal Bar Association, told the Justice Committee that the situation was close to breaking point, The Brief reports.

Jim Daly A government minister has proposed plans to ban children under the age of 14 from owning smartphones and having unrestricted access to the Internet, the Sunday Business Post reports.

UK law firm TLT has been ranked among the most active clean energy advisers in the world by Clean Energy Pipeline magazine. The global league tables put TLT at number four for the volume of M&A deals it completed in 2017, with the firm having advised on 25 deals valued at $770 million.

O’Flynn Exhams Solicitors has announced its sponsorship of Camille O’Sullivan’s upcoming Cork Opera House show as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. World-renowned singer and story-teller Camille O’Sullivan returns for the Cork Midsummer Festival for one night only alongside the Cork Opera Hou

New Zealand has been quizzed over why sex work is classed as skilled employment in the country's points-based immigration system. Under their rules, sex work or escorting is a type of "level 5 skilled employment" which can earn points for would-be migrants if they were paid at or above around €21