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Senator Ged Nash The Labour Party has said it will propose legislation to give greater protection to workers with uncertain hours of work, The Irish Times reports.

Three tenders for multimillion euro contracts for translation services in the justice sector were scrapped following complaints from a bidder, the Irish Independent reports. Tenders with a combined value of between €7.5 million and €9 million have been cancelled in the past 13 months.

A worker at the Royal Canadian Mint accused of smuggling $180,000 worth of gold in his rectum has appeared before a judge – named Justice Doody. Leston Lawrence, 35, was alleged to have taken nugget-sized pieces of gold, known as “pucks”, to a gold buyer in Ottawa on multiple occasions, the Ot

The Court of Appeal has overturned the decision of Justice Baker in the High Court, and found that the Protective Certificate obtained by the solicitor had not caused the Credit Union to suffer an irreparable loss that would not otherwise occur. Any loss was an inevitable consequence that had been f

Attorney General John Larkin QC Northern Ireland's Attorney General John Larkin QC could involve himself in two Brexit cases to be heard by the High Court.

Former Attorney General and Justice Minister Michael McDowell has backed a Seanad motion calling for the introduction of a judicial council in Ireland, The Irish Times reports. The Seanad motion, also signed by Independent Senators Victor Boyhan and Gerard Craughwell, calls for legislation to introd

Edel McGinley, director of the MRCI The Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) has called for reform of the Irish immigration system in a statement published ahead of the UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants.

The Irish Whiskey Association has recruited former practising barrister Carleen Madigan BL as a legal adviser as it steps up its campaign to protect Irish whiskey. The Association's Protect Irish Whiskey Campaign is calling for Irish whiskey producers and distributors to report products which are wr

Deirdre Burke This week Deirdre Burke of DM Burke Solicitors, a specialist family and child law solicitor in Co Wicklow, speaks to Irish Legal News for our regular Just A Minute feature.

Solicitors at Belfast firm Carson McDowell have begun hosting a series of sessions aimed at teaching young people about their rights and responsibilities in a number of areas.

The General Court of the European Union has confirmed the Commission’s decision to accept the commitments of Thomson Reuters intended to remedy its abuse of a dominant position in the market for consolidated real-time datafeeds. Consolidated real-time datafeeds provide banks and financial institut

Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire The families of those killed in the Ballymurphy Massacre walked out of a meeting with Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire after failing to reach agreement on funding for legacy inquests.

A drug dealer sentenced to seven years in prison was caught after sharing brazen photos of his ill-gotten gains on Instagram. Levi Watson, 29, shared pictures of him posing with cash, jewellery and sports cars, despite telling police he had no regular income.

The Court of Appeal has dismissed a challenge brought by a 24-year-old man who argued that the four-year sentence imposed on him for assault was excessive. The Court found that the trial judge had been correct in taking into account the man’s previous convictions for personal violence, and the sen

Seth Barrett Tillman The backlog of Court of Appeal cases could take more than a decade to be cleared, according to a law lecturer at Maynooth University.