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A man who was convicted of sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl who attended his religious education class has had his sentence increased after the Director of Public Prosecutions appealed the sentence on grounds of undue leniency. Increasing the 14-month sentence to one of four-and-a-half years,

Northern Ireland's chief legal adviser, Attorney General John Larkin QC, will remain in the post until July 2020 following his reappointment by Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley. Ms Bradley today announced Mr Larkin's reappointment for a 13-month period, commencing on 24 May 2019 until 3

English and Welsh lawyers who obtained a practising certificate in Ireland as part of their Brexit preparations may still not be allowed to practise before the EU courts, according to reports. A letter sent by the Law Society of Ireland and seen by The Irish Times, dated 25 March 2019, states that s

Seven law students have been elected as Scholars of Trinity College Dublin (TCD), demonstrating their in-depth knowledge and understanding of the law. The students are Ruby Barrett, Jonathan Boylan, Kate Maher and Robert Van Breda, who are all studying Law, as well as Aoife O'Carroll, studying Law a

Northern Ireland's justice system is increasingly being used as a service of last resort for people with mental health issues, according to a new report. The Comptroller and Auditor General, Kieran Donnelly, published his report on Mental Health in the Criminal Justice System to coincide with Mental

New websites for the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) and the Labour Court have been launched. The redesigned WRC website was developed with the help of key stakeholders through focus groups, testing and surveys, informed by data about what parts of the old site visitors accessed most frequently

The head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service has written to Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley to ask her to progress legislation to provide redress for survivors of institutional childhood abuse. The Executive Office (TEO), in the absence of a functioning Northern Ireland Executive, drafted

High Court proceedings to determine if certain documents given by the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) to the Office of Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) are legally privileged have been adjourned to late June. The materials which the FAI claims are privileged includes legal advice it re

Keystone Northern Ireland has advised the first business to receive backing from a £30 million growth fund set up by the British Business Bank, Invest NI and the Northern Ireland Local Government Officers' Superannuation Committee. A team led by director and senior corporate lawyer John McMaho

Lawyers from Ireland and Scotland will sing together at a charity fundraising concert in Dublin next weekend. The Sounds of Music concert has been co-organised by the A&L Goodbody Choir, the Bar Choir in Ireland and the Faculty of Advocates Choir from Scotland.

A copy of the novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover used by the presiding judge in the book's 1960 obscenity trial has been temporarily stopped from leaving the UK. Arts minister Michael Ellis put an export bar on the copy of the D.H. Lawrence novel taken to court by Sir Laurence Byrne.

A jury in California has awarded over $2 billion to a couple who claimed that a weed killer had caused their cancer. It is the third consecutive verdict against Bayer over its glyphosate-based Roundup product – and the largest yet.

There are at least 181,000 offenders linked to serious and organised crime (SOC) in the UK, the National Crime Agency has revealed. A £2.7 billion investment in law enforcement is needed to combat SOC over the next three years, NCA director general Lynne Owens said today as she released the Na

A cardinal climbed down a manhole to restore power for hundreds of people who had been left without electricity for a week. Cardinal Konrad Krajewski said the move was a "desperate gesture" as the 400 occupants of the building were left "without even the possibility of operating the refrigerators".

A man who was convicted of rape and indecent assault in 1996 has lost a challenge to the mechanism for reviewing notification requirements. Rejecting the application, Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan was satisfied that the review mechanism was compatible with the European Convention of Human Rights, and t