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The Law Reform Commission is seeking views on an issues paper on suspended sentences as part of its fourth programme of law reform. It seeks views on issues concerning both the principles that apply to imposing suspended sentences and the procedures that apply to them.

Most sex offenders in Ireland leave prison without taking part in preventative treatment, according to figures released to The Irish Times. Of the 104 sex offenders released last year, about half took part in the voluntary Building Better Lives (BBL) treatment programme introduced in 2009.

Lord Neuberger The President of the UK Supreme Court has told the government that it must provide greater clarity on how domestic law will develop after Brexit.

Tom O'Malley Tom O'Malley BL, a commissioner with the Law Reform Commission and a senior lecturer in law at NUI Galway, writes on suspended sentences.

John G. Murphy An Enniscorthy-based lawyer has urged farmers and landowners to tread carefully when local authorities seek compulsory purchase orders (CPOs) on their land in order to put in wells.

Ciara Lagan Ciara Lagan, corporate partner at Tughans, writes on Northern Ireland's new "persons with significant control" regime.

A barrister has claimed that Article 50 has not been triggered because the UK never made a constitutional decision to leave the UK. David Wolchover said the letter from the UK giving the rest of the EU notice of its intention to leave the bloc was without legal effect.

Teams have been invited to join an annual charity golf tournament sponsored by Cork firm O'Flynn Exhams Solicitors.

Alisha Medford A Glasgow law student has been crowned winner of the Mary From Dungloe competition in its 50th year.

Over 1,500 pints of prison hooch are confiscated in Irish prisons every year, new figures have revealed. Almost 6,500 pints of homemade alcohol - produced by inmates using water, sugar, fruit and bread - have been seized over the past four years, with nearly 875 pints confiscated last year.

A judge rehearsed an old legal joke as she sentenced a lawyer to a year in jail for forging the signatures of judges. Jose Camacho forged more than 100 judicial signatures in financial settlement cases, though strangely he never actually benefited from the fraud.

Delays in the probate process are putting families attempting to settle their deceased relatives’ estates under pressure, the Irish Independent reports. Research has found it takes an average 16 months to finish the process in Ireland, compared to between three and four weeks in England.

The High Court has refused to grant the wife of a bankrupt an order to cross-examine the official assignee of her husband’s estate, in relation to a mareva injunction against her. Ms Justice Costello found that the woman had failed to establish exceptional circumstances, and stated that there was

Software changes to lower emissions from diesel car engines will likely fall foul of EU law, one Irish lawyer involved in the VW emissions scandal has said. Evan O’Dwyer said the only legal fix would be to ban the affected cars from the road, The Irish Times reports.