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Salil Shetty, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Amnesty International reports that at least 1,634 people were executed in 25 countries in 2015. This represents a stark increase on the number of executions recorded in 2014 of more than 50 per cent; in 2014 the organisation recorded 1,061 ex

Gavan Duffy QC, chairman of Northern Ireland's Criminal Bar Association The long running story of Rob Tichener’s abuse of his wife Helen in BBC Radio 4's The Archers came to a gruesome climax this week in a shocking scene for listeners that resulted in outcry on social media platforms and news out

A German village has officially stripped Adolf Hitler of his honorary citizenship – granted 83 years ago. Speaking to Bild, the mayor of Tegernsee in Bavaria, Johannes Hagn, said: "We wanted this over, once and for all.” He added that the 16 village councillors voted unanimously in favour of the

The Supreme Court has dismissed a judicial review appeal brought by an employee of the Review Commissioners, who disputed the Commissioners’ decision not to fund her professional legal qualification. The Supreme Court found that there had been too long a delay since the employee was first notified

Sinead Carroll This week, we reported that Jobs Minister Richard Bruton had met with leading members of the judiciary to win support for a revised Book of Quantum.

Belfast firm Carson McDowell has become the official legal patron of the construction industry in Northern Ireland, the Construction Employers Federation (CEF) has announced. Carson McDowell has signed up to the CEF Patronage Scheme, which sees organisations from a range of sectors come together to

Lawyers for Michaella McCollum, a 21-year-old woman recently freed from prison in Peru following a conviction for drug offences, are preparing to launch legal proceedings against an Irish newspaper. In a statement, solicitor Kevin Winters of Belfast firm KRW Law alleged that Ms McCollum's family was

Amnesty International has called for abortion laws to be reformed as a second case involving a woman accused of procuring drugs to induce a miscarriage comes before Belfast Crown Court. Yesterday, a 21-year-old woman was given a three-month jail sentence suspended for two years after illegally induc

The submissions deadline for the 10th North South Irish Criminology Conference has been extended to late April. The general theme of the conference, which takes place in Maynooth University on 23 and 24 June 2016, is: ‘Beyond the Penal State: Exploring the Boundaries of Punishment’.

The execution of a European Arrest Warrant must be deferred if there is a real risk of inhuman or degrading treatment because of the conditions of detention of the person concerned in the member state where the warrant was issued. And, if the existence of that risk cannot be discounted within a reas

A founder of the law firm at the centre of revelations into the offshore wealth of world leaders, criminals and others – disclosed in a cache of 11.5 million documents – has said the firm was hacked. Ramon Fonseca, of Panamanian firm Mossack Fonseca, has lodged a criminal complaint with prosecut

The European Union’s General Court is preparing for the arrival of new members as part of a revised structure, consisting of nine chambers of five judges, to be introduced in September. The legislation provides initially for 12 new judges to be appointed to the General Court, and subsequently for

Biscuit thieves who stole an incredible £20,000 worth of Jammie Dodgers have been jailed for a total of 11 years. The gang of five pretended to be courier deliverymen in order to steal the biscuits from a factory in South Wales. However, when police discovered the trailer dumped by the roadside in

The High Court has ordered for a solicitor, Mr Patrick Enright, to be struck off the Roll of Solicitors, as a result of fraudulent activity carried out by him in 1994. The Law Society had brought the application following a finding by the Disciplinary Tribunal that Mr Enright was not a fit person to

A 21-year-old woman who was reported to police after illegally inducing her miscarriage has been given a three-month prison sentence suspended for two years. The woman, who cannot be named due to a court order, was convicted in Belfast Crown Court of offences under section 58 of the Offences Against