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Six prisoners escaped a US jail on Christmas morning by removing a toilet and crawling through a hole behind it. The Christmas escape from the Cocke County Jail Annex in Newport, Tennessee was short-lived as the sixth inmate was recaptured on 28 December.

An order of the High Court granting the Bank of Ireland a summary judgment for €1 million against an 81-year-old woman who stood as guarantor for loans paid to her son's company has been upheld by the Court of Appeal. Delivering the judgment of the three-judge Court, Ms Justice Irvine was satisfie

Youth justice campaigners have welcomed the Government's latest progress report on the Youth Justice Action Plan 2014-18, while noting continuing concern for children in detention. The report for 2014/15 outlines "significant progress" in implementing the Action Plan under each of its five high-leve

Court documents should be more readily accessible, an Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union has proposed. Regulation No 1049/2001 obliges the Commission to grant a third party access to the pleadings submitted by a member state, of which it holds a copy, in a case that has a

Christmas home leave has been granted to 93 prisoners in Northern Ireland this year, the Northern Ireland Prison Service has confirmed. The figure is a slight decline on 2015, when 108 were granted leave.

EU law does not, in principle, prevent a member state from opposing collective redundancies in certain circumstances in the interests of the protection of workers and of employment. However, under such national legislation, which must in that case seek to reconcile and strike a fair balance between,

The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, has speculated in a speech to lawyers in Wales that artificial intelligence (AI) will soon become better than QCs at predicting the outcome of cases. Speaking at Legal Wales: Shaping The Future, Lord Thomas said: "The most importa

Young people at Woodlands Juvenile Justice Centre in Bangor were joined by parents, families and invited guests as the annual carol service hosted by the Youth Justice Agency (YJA).

Ruadhán Mac Cormaic’s book reads with such ease that you tend to forget that you’re reading an extensively researched chronicle of the cases that have shaped Ireland. Each chapter serves to educate and entertain the reader with insightful accounts of the social and political influences surround

Over the past year, our And finally section - with the most absurd, offbeat, strange or funny legal stories - has kept lawyers entertained. Here, we list our 10 most popular stories of 2016:

Kieran Donnelly The level of outstanding fines in Northern Ireland is "exceptionally high", according to the Northern Ireland Audit Office.

Discrimination resulting in the denial of a basic education is a sufficiently severe violation of basic human rights so as to amount in law to persecution, the Supreme Court has found. In the circumstances of the particular case involving a Serbian child of Ashkali ethnicity, Mr Justice Clarke found

Legal bodies have welcomed Luxembourg's ruling on indiscriminate retention of data as a blow to legislation that undermines legal professional privilege (LPP). The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that EU law precludes national legislation that prescribes general and indiscriminate reten

Ireland must recover the sum of €8 per passenger from airlines benefiting from unlawful state aid because the difference between the lower and normal rates of the Irish air travel tax constitutes unlawful aid which must be recovered regardless of the benefit the airlines actually derived from the

The Department of Justice cannot be compelled to legislate to protect the identities of minors who are suspected of crimes, the High Court in Belfast has ruled. It follows a legal challenge by a 15-year-old boy who was identified in newspapers as a suspect in a cyber attack.