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A woman who failed to fully inherit the estate of her deceased husband, based on a will written in accordance with Greek civil law, because Greece automatically applies Sharia law to Greeks of Muslim faith suffered a violation of Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination) of the European Convention

An Irish lawyer who won a silver medal at the Hockey Women's World Cup this year has reflected on balancing her legal and athletic careers in an interview with Mason Hayes & Curran.

The Belfast Solicitors Association (BSA) has launched its 2018/19 charity partnership with Northern Ireland Chest Heart and Stroke (NICHS). Enda Lavery, solicitor at MTB Solicitors, announced the association's support for the local health charity at the BSA AGM in October, where he was elected as ch

Six people in the Midlands have been jailed for being members of the proscribed neo-Nazi group National Action (NA), including a couple who gave their son the middle name "Adolf" in tribute to the Nazi leader. Leicester man Daniel Bogunovic, 27, and Oxfordshire couple Adam Thomas, 22, and Claudia Pa

Music star Shakira is facing prosecution in Spain for allegedly avoiding €14.5 million in taxes between 2012 and 2014. The singer - made famous in Europe by her record-breaking hit "Hips Don't Lie" - allegedly used 14 shell companies to hide income while a Spanish resident.

A 21-year-old man who had 33 previous convictions when he was sentenced to three years imprisonment for two burglaries has had his sentence increased after the Director of Public Prosecutions argued that the sentences should be reviewed on grounds of undue leniency. Finding that the overall sentence

The Law Society of Ireland has issued a harsh condemnation of "the violent actions of vigilantes" following reports of an attack on private security guards in Co Roscommon. Up to 50 men allegedly arrived at a recently repossessed house in Falsk on Sunday morning and attacked private security guards

Dublin-based Philip Lee has hosted a drinks reception in London to mark the official opening of the law firm's first office in the UK.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan will today set out the Government's four-year implementation plan for the recommendations of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland. Mr Flanagan will launch the Policing Service for the Future plan alongside Garda Commissioner Drew Harris in Kevin Stree

Northern Ireland solicitor Norville Connolly has taken up a new post in Afghanistan as deputy executive director of an anti-corruption NGO. Mr Connolly, a dual-qualified solicitor who has practised north and south of the Irish border since the 1970s, has taken up the leading role with Integrity Watc

Lawyers have argued before the Court of Appeal that the constitutional right not to testify against one's spouse should extend beyond society's 1992 definition of the "nuclear family". The case concerns a Circuit Court ruling on whether two women could be compelled to give evidence against their par

An expert on concealed pregnancies has called for the re-examination of a law criminalising women who secretly give birth to babies who don't survive, The Times reports. Dr Sylvia Murphy Tighe, a lecturer at University of Limerick's Department of Nursery and Midwifery, said the Law Reform Commission

Poland has reinstated the 27 Supreme Court judges who were forced to retire under controversial judicial reforms opposed by the European Commission. Legislation reversing the change in the judicial retirement age was signed into law by President Andrzej Duda yesterday after the European Court of Jus

The House of Lords is set to overhaul its disciplinary processes next year to better support complainants in the wake of sexual harassment allegations against Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC, The Times reports. The 82-year-old peer and former barrister resigned from the Lords last week ahead of a vote

In November 1908, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and Margaret Cousins, along with their husbands Francis and James, founded the Irish Women’s Franchise League (IWFL). The primary aim of the IWFL was for women to be afforded the right to vote on the same terms as men, and a particular aim was to guar