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Ministers are set to agree that asylum seekers who spend more than nine months waiting for a decision on their international protection application will gain the right to work, The Irish Times reports. Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan will bring a memo to Cabinet next week, proposing renewable six-

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Ken Murphy The Law Society of Ireland has called on the Government to increase investment in its legal services in order to improve the system for Irish citizens, increase access to the law for those in disadvantaged circumstances and grasp opportunities that may result from Brexit.

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The Government is planning to grant extra powers, staff and a wider remit to the Office of Director of Corporate Enforcement following a series of collapsed court cases, the Irish Examiner reports. It is part of a package of measures aimed at improving prosecutions for white collar crime, particular

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An Irish man who claimed his conviction for selling drugs was unfair as it was based on evidence obtained by police entrapment has had his application unanimously declared inadmissible by the European Court of Human Rights, which concluded that the role of the police in the case had been essentially

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More work is needed to address judicial diversity and issues with recruitment that threaten the UK’s world-renowned legal systems, the House of Lords Constitution Committee has warned today. The committee states in a report that It is deeply concerned about the dispute between the UK government an

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The Court of Appeal has rejected an attempted to trademark the shape of London’s black cabs, upholding a decision of the High Court from last year that the shape lacked "distinctive character”. The London Taxi Company, manufacturer of the hackney carriages, had taken the firm Frazer-Nash to cour

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