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Master of the High Court, Edmund Honohan SC, had to break three window panes in the Four Courts with a hammer to dispel "a fug" in his courtroom, The Sunday Times reports. According to the newspaper, Mr Honohan took action after the Courts Service failed to respond to his complaints that the stuffin

House of Commons officials have fitted a tamper alarm to the bust of Oliver Cromwell in order to prevent Labour MP Stephen Pound from turning it to face the wall in protest of the military and political leader's record in Ireland. Mr Pound, the MP for Ealing North, has objected to the bust for a num

A bus company has been directed to reinstate a part-time school bus driver whose contract of employment was terminated in August 2017. The company accused the driver of stealing parts, however the driver maintained that he had permission to take the parts and did so openly.

Personal injury lawyers have hit back at the CEO of Allianz Ireland after he said half of the 1,500 claims the insurer challenged in the Irish courts last year were "potentially fraudulent". Jody Cantillon, partner in the litigation department at Cantillons Solicitors, told Irish Legal News that the

Chris Kinney, solicitor at Belfast-based Lacey Solicitors, has been elected chair of the Northern Ireland Young Solicitors Association (NIYSA) at its 2019 AGM.

An Garda Síochána has launched an investigation into a fire at a hotel in Rooskey which has been earmarked as a possible Direct Provision centre. In a statement this morning, Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan said he did not "wish to speculate" on the cause of the fire at the Shannon K

The Department of Justice has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Central Statistics Office (CSO) on the undertaking of a comprehensive national survey on the prevalence of sexual violence in Ireland. Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan confirmed that the MoU had been signed by Aidan O

Rosemary Ioannou, managing director at Vannin Capital, and Gavin Smith, partner at Walkers Global, examine the future of litigation funding in Ireland. As matters stand, third party professional litigation funding (PLF) is prohibited under Irish law.

Leading members of the judiciary and legal profession came together to discuss diversity in legal representation after a Belfast screening of RBG, a new documentary on the life and work of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the US Supreme Court.

Hundreds of students have signed a petition calling on the University of Oxford to sack a law professor with "extremely discriminatory views against many groups of disadvantaged people". John Finnis, emeritus professor of law and legal philosophy, retired in 2010 but continues to co-teach seminars f

Máiréad Enright, senior lecturer at Birmingham Law School and co-director of the Northern/Irish Feminist Judgments Project, sets out options for reform. The Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 (HRPTA) makes no provision for exclusion zones to prevent protests at lo

A couple in Germany whose four children were temporarily taken into care because they insisted on homeschooling them did not suffer a violation of their article 8 rights, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. In yesterday's Chamber judgment in the case of Wunderlich v Germany, the co

The latest manufacturing survey from Belfast firm Tughans and industry body Manufacturing NI has revealed positive growth, sustained products and increased staffing levels in the sector. According to the report, The State of Northern Ireland Manufacturing 2018, over two-thirds (67 per cent) of respo

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled in favour of an Azerbaijani journalist who was subject to a sex-tape smear campaign after investigating government corruption. The ECtHR ruled that the Azerbaijani authorities failed to investigate a “sex video” of Radio Free Europe re

The commencement of the Domestic Violence Act 2018 brings significant changes to Ireland’s law on domestic violence, including the introduction of offences under the heading of coercive control, the court’s express consideration of the victim’s psychological and emotional welfare,