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The instructions set out in a will drafted in 1988 will be carried out despite a failure to recover the original document, a High Court judge has ruled. Ms Justice Marie Baker said that she did not consider the late Mary McDermott's one-page will to have been revoked, despite opposing arguments that

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A part-time law student gained first-hand experience of the courtroom after being convicted of shoplifting from an Asda supermarket in Belfast. Diarmaid McMillan, 27, told Belfast Magistrates Court that he was leaving the store with a loaded trolley in order to get a bank card to make a full payment

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A 45-year old man from New Jersey has been indicted on a fourth-degree charge of "throwing bodily fluids" after substituting toilet paper with a police summons. According to the indictment, Joseph Greenwood took the summons, placed it between his "butt cheeks", wiped up and down, then threw it at a

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Pictured (l-r): David O'Donnell, partner and head of corporate, and David Mangan Dublin-based law firm Mason Hayes & Curran has appointed David Mangan as a partner in its corporate team.

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European Citizen's Prize 2015 Ceremony A transgender rights activist who led a 22-year court battle for the recognition of trans people in Ireland has been awarded the Citizen's Prize from the European Parliament.

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Independent TD Shane Ross Independent TD Shane Ross has presented a private member's bill that would introduce fixed-term parliaments in Ireland.

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The High Court in Tours, France has ruled that a 64-year-old intersex person's birth certificate should be amended to record their gender as "neutral". In an historic ruling on 20 August, the magistrate said that the "gender assigned at birth appears to be nothing but a fiction, forced on this perso

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A New York cab driver can continue paying $0 a month to live in a hotel in the city's wealthy Chelsea district, a judge has ruled. Oltimdje Ouattara, who applied to become a permanent tenant at the hotel under New York's Single Room Occupancy law, was initially paying $48 a night to stay at an illeg

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Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald yesterday announced details of planned spending in the justice and equality sector next year, including the provision of an extra €89 million in current expenditure.

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