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Robert Shiels reviews a new book on one of the most notorious crimes in recent English history. The public must surely wish to have a comprehensive narrative of the course of conduct by a medically qualified person resulting in the deaths of many babies, and they have it with this book.

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Dear Editor, Ought not the "land of a thousand welcomes" exercise more compassion towards those ‘flocking’ to our great shores in search of a better quality of life?

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A new tipstaff has been warmly welcomed in the High Court, a reader tells Irish Legal News. For many years, the legendary Mr Ian Barclay was the tipstaff for the then Chancery list judge, including Ms Justice Reynolds, Mr Justice O’Moore, Mr Justice Allen and finally Mr Justice Sanfey. Mr Barc

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Perhaps Ireland's most famous — and unlikeliest — human rights activist, Seán MacBride was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 50 years ago this week. Born in 1904 to Maud Gonne, the actress, Irish republican icon and long-time muse of WB Yeats, and Major John MacBride, who was executed

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Robert Shiels looks at the "story of law’s reasonable person" — one that has "many beginnings and no end", according to Professor Valentin Jeutner, of Lund University, Sweden. Identifying the concept of a "reasonable person" is not an easy task, given, as this professor discovered, there

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Robert Shiels reviews a new book on an infamous series of London murders. The purportedly whole story of the grim events at 10 Rillington Place, London has been offered to the public in different forms over the years but what version is complete, and separately, an accurate one?

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Recent years have seen an impressive influx of significant international law firms to Ireland. They have arrived in the country to service multinational businesses attracted to the country by seamless access to the EU post-Brexit as well as the country’s growing reputation in areas such as tec

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Professor Russell Sandberg suggests legal sanctions for blasphemy continue to exist in Britain following a ruling against Scottish comedian Fern Brady. The criminal offence of blasphemy is dead in England and Wales. It was unceremoniously abolished by section 79(1) of the Criminal Justice and Immigr

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