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Judge Corinne Philpott QC Key figures in Northern Ireland's legal profession have proposed that the Institute of Professional Legal Studies should create a graduate prize in the name of the late Judge Corinne Philpott QC.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Two-thirds of homeowners in mortgage arrears are unaware of a new Government service which offers access to free legal advice.

A woman has lost a personal injury case after a judged ruled that her fall down two flights of stairs at a famous jazz club in Soho was a result of her being obese, drunk and careless. Eren Hussein, 53, sought thousands of pounds in damages from Ronnie Scott’s jazz club after the mishap in 2012.

Judge Michael Reilly A report on healthcare in Irish prisons, produced by the late Inspector of Prisons, Judge Michael Reilly, has been published.

The Minister for Justice and Law Reform has successfully appealed an Order of the High Court, which quashed the Minister’s decision to affirm an Armenian national’s deportation order. Delivering the judgment of the three-judge Court of Appeal, Mr Justice Michael Peart found that the trial judge

Spying legislation designed to tackle terrorism has been used hundreds of times to identify welfare and insurance fraud in Northern Ireland over the past five years, The Irish News reports. The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) was used 591 times by the Department for Communities and 132

Theresa Cahill, president of JCI Dublin Junior Chamber International (JCI) Dublin is seeking nominations for its The Outstanding Young People (TOYP) of the year awards.

A man who was systematically abused by a former Marist Brother while at National School has been awarded €75,000 by a five-judge Supreme Court. The current Provincial of the Marist Order Brother Patrick McGowan appealed a High Court judgment which awarded the man €315,000 after assessing the Ord

Conor Dignam SC Below, we reproduce comments by Conor Dignam SC, chair of The Bar of Ireland's human rights committee, identifying US President Donald Trump's personal attacks on US judges as part of a "sinister trend".

A French businessman is suing Uber claiming the taxi company negligently alerted his wife to his adultery, leading to the break-up of his marriage. The Riviera-based businessman says he once used his wife's mobile phone to hail an Uber driver and that, despite logging off, the company continued to s

of further offers from other interested parties. The Court heard that in the end, Mr Mellon did not actually submit a tender – Justice Humphreys said that it was likely that this was because he did not in fact have the funds immediately available. Thus, Justice Humphreys stated that “it was rea

The UK government will move ahead with plans to allow people accused of petty crimes to plead guilty and be sentenced online. A Ministry of Justice (MoJ) report has recommended the system, which is voluntary, be trialled with non-custodial sentences, including railway fare evasion.

Paul Joyce FLAC (Free Legal Advice Centres) has said changes to the mortgage-to-rent scheme announced by Housing Minister Simon Coveney following a review by his department are encouraging.

Ken Murphy, director general of the Law Society The Law Society of Ireland has hired a media monitoring firm to help identify "claims harvesting" companies taking out press advertisements, The Irish Times reports.

A man has failed in his attempt to render himself immune from prosecution by arguing that a law drafted 115 years ago criminalised certain homosexual activity. The man, whose identity cannot be published, is charged with seven counts of gross indecency under section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment