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Almost £2 million of criminal assets were seized in Northern Ireland in 2017/18, according to the Organised Crime Task Force's (OCTF) latest annual report. Compared with last year, the seizure of illegal drugs is up by almost 24 per cent and the number of organised crime groups (OCGs) dismantl

A man has been jailed for three years and fined over £1 million for overharvesting sea cucumbers. Hoon Namkoong, 62, failed to report nearly 115,000 kilograms of sea cucumbers which he bought between 2014 and 2016.

A woman who worked nearly 60 hours per week, as evidenced by emails sent outside of her contracted hours of 40 hours per week, has been awarded €7,500 in compensation. Agreeing with the Workplace Relations Commission's finding that the employer was in breach of the Organisation of Working Time

Munster law firm BDM Boylan has announced the appointment of Colm Manning as partner and head of the firm's commercial department. Mr Manning is a specialist commercial lawyer with a Masters in Corporate and Commercial Law from UCD Sutherland School of Law.

Former President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, will be joining the University of Glasgow as a professor of children, law and religion. Born in Belfast, Professor McAleese is the eldest of nine children and grew up in Ardoyne, a sectarian flashpoint where she experienced first-hand the violence of

The Ministry of Defence has agreed to pay a combined £700,000 in compensation to the the families of two men shot dead on Bloody Sunday in 1972. The family of Gerard McKinney, shot dead at 35, will receive £625,000 in compensation, while the family of Michael McDaid, killed at 20, will r

County Down solicitor Con Lavery has suddenly passed away during a trip to Spain. Mr Lavery, principal solicitor at Con Lavery & Co Solicitors since 2004, had over three decades of experience practising as a solicitor in the Banbridge and Lurgan area.

A woman who pleaded guilty to leaving her four-year-old son with life-threatening injuries should not have taken a High Court action to change her plea before she was sentenced, the Court of Appeal has held.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has reiterated his support for stricter sentencing of repeat sexual offenders following a 10 per cent increase in recorded sexual offences over the past year. The latest crime figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO), which are still being published "under r

Michael Jackson, managing partner of Matheson, addressed over 350 guests from US multinationals at the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland's annual business lunch in Cork. Matheson, which last week opened its first Irish regional office in Cork, sponsored the lunch, which was attended by leading Co

An opposition bill to prevent a husband or wife who kills their partner to benefit financially from the sale of the family home may win backing from the Government today. Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan will raise the Civil Liability (Prevention of Benefits from Homicide) Bill at a meeting of the

A man who avoided imprisonment for growing cannabis while studying law at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) has cast doubt on An Garda Síochána's approach to drug valuations. Cian Ó Concubhair, now a stipendiary lecturer in law at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, told T

The right to a civil partnership will be extended to different-sex couples in England and Wales, Prime Minister Theresa May has announced. In June, the Supreme Court said the existing law on civil partnerships was incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.

A new start-up has announced plans to launch a cannabis-based treatment for anxious and depressed pets. Weedentity will take advantage of recently relaxed Italian laws to sell a new cannabis oil product aimed at cats and dogs.