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A 68-year-old man who was knocked off his bicycle when he attempted to enter an access road from a pedestrian pathway has had his claim for personal injuries dismissed. Concluding that the real and proximate cause of the accident was the man's use of the pedestrian pathway as a cycleway and his fail

Belfast firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has announced the appointment of Conor McCrory as an associate solicitor in the firm's employment and immigration law department. Mr McCrory, a dual-qualified solicitor in England and Wales and Northern Ireland, joins the firm after 10 years practising in London.

Specialist insurance industry law firm Horwich Farrelly has welcomed its appointment to the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Wider Public Sector Legal Services Framework. The three-year appointment will see the firm, which expanded into Northern Ireland with the opening of a Belfast office this year,

Draft legislation to allow Ireland to ratify the Istanbul Convention on violence against women by early 2019 has been approved by the Government. The Criminal Law (Extraterritorial Jurisdiction) Bill 2018 will allow for individuals who commit particular offences abroad will be liable to be prosecute

A rape trial has collapsed due to an allegedly prejudicial newspaper report which linked the case to the ongoing debate around the fairness of rape trials. The trial involved a man accused of raping a woman he met on a night out in 2015. It had run for six days and was at the closing stages, with th

Lawyers for a suspected drugs trafficker are seeking leave to appeal an order for his extradition to Poland made despite "generalised and systemic" violations to the independence of the Polish judiciary. Polish authorities are seeking the surrender of Artur Celmer, 31, who is wanted to face trial in

Gerry Liston, solicitor and legal officer for Sadaka (The Ireland Palestine Alliance) and the Global Legal Action Network, writes on the legality of the Occupied Territories Bill ahead of its return to the Seanad tomorrow. On July 12th, the Irish flag flew outside the City Hall in Ramallah, Palestin

A new report into conditions at Maghaberry Prison has found "significant progress" three years after the facility was found to be unsafe and unstable. Findings of the latest inspection were published today by Brendan McGuigan, Chief Inspector of Criminal Justice in Northern Ireland, and Peter Clarke

Lord Sumption has warned that a functioning justice system is "not discretionary" but is "fundamental to the existence of the state and to our existence as a civil society", and described the public's scepticism towards the presumption of innocence as a "travesty". The UK Supreme Court justice, who

The Employment Law Association of Ireland (ELAI) welcomed senior judges and lawyers to its annual dinner in the Westbury Hotel, sponsored by Lewis Silkin.

Twenty years after the establishment of a full-time European Court of Human Rights guaranteeing a right of individual petition to over 800 million Europeans, the President of the court Guido Raimondi hailed the establishment of the court in 1998 as a landmark in the development of international hum

Russia violated the article 11, 13 and 14 rights of seven LGBT activists by refusing them permission to hold LGBT rallies, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found. Handing down its judgment in Alekseyev and Others v. Russia, the court said the case was no different from the case of Alek

The ByrneWallace staff choir, "Legally Sound", were among performers who took to the stage of the National Concert Hall in Dublin to raise cash for charity.

Lawyers in William Fry's asset management and investment funds team have presented a €750 cheque to the Dublin Simon Community following their annual charity Bake Off.

A man who laughed and swore at police who couldn't find drugs on him was later found to be hiding a bag of cocaine in his penis. James Mason, 21, told officers "f**k off, you're not searching me" and then, after a search, "ha ha, told you I had f**k all on us, you mugs".