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The National Crime Agency (NCA) recorded 44 disruptions of organised crime and made 36 arrests in its first year of full operation in Northern Ireland, new figures show. The NCA became fully operational in Northern Ireland in May 2015 and works closely with the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PS

On average, women in paid work in the UK receive about 18 per cent less per hour than men, according to a new report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). The IFS research, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, shows that the wage gap is smaller when comparing young women – before they be

Grace Murphy, an associate in the litigation and dispute resolution department at Beauchamps Solicitors, specialises in medical negligence - but last week, she showed her expertise in another field.

A group of fruit smugglers is suspected to have moonlighted as civil engineers after a poorly-kept country road on the Russian border was mysteriously improved. Border agencies were left scratching their heads after expensive equipment was covertly used overnight to "widen and raise the gravel track

Caroline Maguire Caroline Maguire, employment legal adviser at Law Centre (NI), writes on access to justice for victims of labour exploitation in the wake of an important UKSC decision.

In an extensive and detailed judgment in the High Court, a Council’s decision to reject the planning application for a major housing scheme in South Dublin has been quashed. The property development company had applied for planning permission for the €75m development in 2015, which was rejected

Mrs Justice Susan Denham Senior members of the judiciary, including the Chief Justice of Ireland, Mrs Justice Susan Denham, have appealed to Dublin City Council to scrap plans for a park on land earmarked for the new family courts complex.

Justice Secretary Liz Truss Plans to scrap the Human Rights Act and replace it with a "British Bill of Rights" are to go ahead according to Justice Secretary Liz Truss.

Jonathan McKeown and Maurece Hutchinson Belfast- and Newry-based firm JMK Solicitors is set to recruit 10 new staff members this year as part of an ambitious new £1 million three-year business development plan.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Department of Justice officials have backed amending the Constitution to remove update provisions relating to "women in the home", The Irish Times reports.

Pictured (l-r, top-bottom): James Flanagan of Arthur Cox; Conor Toal of AMT-Sybex; William Curry of Arthur Cox; Morris McCracken and Tom Gilgun of the Central Procurement Directive; Brian Mitchell and Leonard Hayes of AMT-Sybex; Robert Huey; and David Torrens Arthur Cox advised Northern Ireland's De

Dr Rachel Killean Dr Rachel Killean has joined the Queen's University Belfast faculty as a lecturer in the School of Law.

In today’s Grand Chamber judgment in the case of J.K. and Others v. Sweden the European Court of Human Rights held, by ten votes to seven, that there would be: a violation of article 3 (prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment) of the European Convention on Human Rights if the ord

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson Human rights group Reprieve has written to Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in support of a British citizen on death row in Ethiopia, who they say continues to be refused access to a lawyer.

Cops in the Filipino capital have been banned from picking their noses and scratching themselves in a bid to improve their reputation. The new rules, outlined in a memorandum from the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO), also include bans on selfies, smoking, chewing gum or playing online