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The UK’s biggest police force is to ditch a policy of believing all rape complainants following a series of embarrassing failures into alleged sex crimes, The Times reports. Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan Police commissioner, has told officers to have an open mind when an allegation is made and c

A team of lawyers from HOMS Solicitors were out in force to clean the streets around its Limerick office over Easter weekend.

Patrick Corrigan, Amnesty's Northern Ireland programme director Amnesty International and the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) have condemned a death threat against an unnamed Belfast journalist.

A judge in Los Angeles has ruled that US coffee companies must include a cancer warning label on drinks because of a chemical produced during roasting. Superior Court judge Elihu Berle said that Starbucks as well as 90 other companies had failed to show that the threat from acrylamide, a carcinogen

A man who was unanimously convicted by a jury of seventeen counts of sexual assault and rape in 2016 has lost an appeal against his conviction. The man complained that the trial judge erred in admitting a memorandum of his Garda interview and also evidence about his admissions to the victim’s fami

Lawyers acting for Paddy Jackson, yesterday acquitted after a nine-week rape trial, have invited senior justice officials to discuss proposals to clamp down on social media commentary during trials. In a statement issued after the trial, solicitor Joe McVeigh of Belfast-based KRW Law said "vile comm

Winning student team Bronwyn Hogan, Darragh McDonagh, Orla Moriarty and Stephen Pearson A team of four third-level students have triumphed in McCann FitzGerald's Legal Apps Hackathon, the first-ever legal hackathon to use AI technology, with their white collar crime reporting app.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan A convicted murderer who was executed in 1882 is set to be posthumously pardoned on the recommendation of the Government.

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has resumed the publication of crime statistics under a new category of "under reservation". The CSO suspended the publication of crime figures last summer after data quality issues were identified in relation to gardaí figures on which the CSO relies.

An international research organisation has published a new report exploring whether plans to build a new dedicated immigration detention facility in Ireland will result in more people being detained. The Global Detention Project is based in Geneva and reports on the human rights of detained migrants

A team of second-year students representing the respondents in a medical negligence-themed moot triumphed in last night's grand final.

A viola player whose hearing was seriously damaged at a rehearsal of Die Walküre in 2012 has won a landmark High Court case against the Royal Opera House. On September 1, 2012, Chris Goldscheider suffered irreversible damage to his hearing after noise levels exceeded 130 decibels, equivalent to a j

Maya Foa, director of Reprieve Acting on recommendations from UK-trained torture investigators, Bahrain’s Attorney General has requested that the country’s highest court reconsider the death sentences handed to two men convicted on the basis of forced confessions obtained through torture.

National University of Ireland Galway has successfully appealed a High Court order which placed an injunction on an investigation into bullying complaints made by a member of staff. One of the respondents to the complaint alleged objective bias on the part of the independent investigator appointed b

Dr Diarmuid Griffin Life prisoners in Ireland are serving longer periods of time behind bars than in previous decades due to Ireland's unreformed parole process, new research has found.