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Foreign nationals receive longer prison services for drug offences than Irish nationals, according to researchers at University College Dublin. A new report by researchers Avril Brandon and Michael O'Connell reveals that foreign nationals' sentences for possession of drugs for sale/supply worth less

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has set out a revised approach to improve transparency standards for clients of the bar. The proposals were agreed in principle at the regulator's recent board meeting and were made in response to a recent Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) market study of legal se

Pictured (l-r): Andrew Walsh BL, Paul McGarry SC, Chairman, Council of The Bar of Ireland, Maria Watson BL, Paddy Armstrong, Grainne Larkin BL, Patrick Crowe BL, Anne Purcell BL & Susan Lennox BL Up to five Irish barristers will travel to the US this year to help exonerate wrongfully-convicted i

Human rights groups have welcomed a new UN report which finds Northern Ireland's abortion laws are leading to human rights violations. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has published a 19-page inquiry report on access to abortion in Northern Ireland followin

Litigation lawyers at Robert G Sinclair & Co Solicitors recently attended the annual fundraiser in Belfast for Brain Injury Matters.

A doctor who was sanctioned with an “advice” due to a finding of poor professional performance has been unsuccessful in an application for judicial review in the High Court. The doctor sought orders quashing the sanction, and also submitted that the lack of a right to appeal the sanction was unc

A&L Goodbody and Arthur Cox were Ireland's top legal advisers on mergers and acqusitions (M&A) last year by volume and value respectively. The firm's standings were confirmed by Experian's MarketIQ UK and Republic of Ireland M&A Review 2017, based on M&A and equity capital market tra

Barry Devereux McCann FitzGerald is inviting students from third level institutions to take part in a brand-new competition, the Legal Apps Hackathon, the first-ever legal hackathon to use AI technology.

Philip O'Leary The Legal Aid Board has officially opened new premises to house Wexford Law Centre.

A judge in Londonderry Magistrates' Court has called for longer sentences for domestic abusers. Judge Barney McElholm said he could impose a maximum sentence of six months on Michael McIntyre, 45, who admitted assaulting his ex-girlfriend and another woman last January.

May Donoghue The woman whose legal case gave rise to the modern law of negligence is set to be commemorated with a bronze statue.

Five ex-police officers could face charges in connection with their conduct at Hillsborough in 1989. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is reviewing evidence on two suspects from West Midlands Police, the force which investigated the aftermath of the disaster that killed 96 people.

Channel 5 has been ordered by a court to pay a couple £10,000 after it broadcast their eviction. Shakar Ali, 52, and his wife Shaida Aslam, 49, from Barking in East London, were filmed on the TV show Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away after they fell into rent arrears.

Pictured (l-r): Alice Normand, former JA to Lord Hope of Craighead, James Fagan, Chris Maile, head of HR at the court and Ewan McCaig Current and past Judicial Assistants at the UK Supreme Court explained their role at a meeting in Edinburgh last night.

A Precious Life protester who was served a number of Police Information Notes pursuant to the procedure on Police Response to Stalking and Harassment, has been refused judicial review in the High Court. Finding that the procedure for issuing PINs did not require the PSNI to seek the views of the per