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Defence Secretary Michael Fallon Birmingham firm Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) will close at the end of August after being told it will receive no more legal aid funding.

Customs and excise officers seized a record amount of cannabis from the Irish postal service in the last five years, The Irish Times reports. There were 640 seizures at postal sorting centres in 2015, compared with 286 seizures in 2014 and only 60 seizures in 2011.

A judge has castigated a vexatious litigant for describing his occupation as “a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ”. Mr Justice Richard Humphreys said the courts were right to refuse to accept a sworn statement with the “fanciful” occupation listed.

The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal by County Louth Vocational Education Committee regarding proceedings before the Equality Tribunal concerning an allegation of discrimination on grounds of gender and sexual orientation made by a retired teacher against his former employer, County Louth Vocation

A prominent victims rights campaigner has lodged the first legal challenge in Northern Ireland against the UK's decision to leave the European Union. Raymond McCord, whose son was killed by loyalist paramilitaries in 1997, has lodged an application for judicial review at the High Court in Belfast.

Personal injury firm Rogers Solicitors recently celebrated its first birthday with a promise of further expansion later this year.

A law firm instructed by a number of prisoners at HMP Maghaberry has called for an independent investigation into violent disturbances earlier this week. Belfast firm KRW Law, which is instructed by a number of a number of sentenced and remand prisoners detained in the Roe House segregated wing, iss

Trade union GMB is celebrating a landmark legal victory over German-owned, low-cost supermarket Lidl. The Central Arbitration Committee (CAC), the independent tribunal with statutory powers over trade union recognition, dismissed Lidl’s attempts to block warehouse operatives employed at the compan

Ciaran Rogers Ciaran Rogers, principal solicitor at Rogers Solicitors in Dublin, writes on the benefits of the use of head cameras by cyclists and motorcyclists.

Mason Hayes & Curran Dublin firm Mason Hayes & Curran acted for Irish renewable energy company Gaelectric on the project financing Ballybay and Foyle wind farms, by AIB plc, for a total of €38 million.

Joshua Browder The creator of a chatbot that successfully challenged 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York has now written a program to provide the homeless with legal aid.

Senator Jerry Hill A legislative committee in California has approved plans to strengthen disclosure requirements for building contractors following the Berkeley balcony collapse.

Justice (terminally) delayed... In her excellent book Indian Summer, Alex von Tunzelmann recounts that Horace Alexander, a friend of Mahatma Gandhi’s, once wrote “I sometimes think our greatest crime against India was to turn all her best sons into lawyers.”

A judge has banned a man from ordering pizza as part of his bail conditions. Randy Riddle, 49, is charged with four counts of harassing phone calls, two counts of first-degree petty theft and one count of second-degree petty theft.

In the High Court, Mr Justice David Keane has allowed two property companies and their controlling director, to succeed in an interlocutory application for a Mareva injunction – thereby restraining a former employee from "removing from Ireland, disposing of, dealing with or diminishing the value o