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Jon Venables (Photo credit: By Source, Fair use) One of the boys convicted of the murder of toddler James Bulger has been imprisoned again after being found with child abuse images for a second time.

Pictured: Mark Heslin's winning try on Saturday The Dáil and Seanad XV rugby team will go head-to-head with The Bar of Ireland one week after being bested by the Law Society.

Pictured (l-r): Rory O'Donnell, Charlie Flanagan and Alan Murphy Eversheds Sutherland has celebrated the firm's 50 years in Ireland with a gathering of colleagues, friends and clients.

Mason Hayes & Curran has awarded the Innovation in Professional Practice Prize to Zanele Mhondiwa.

Robert Troy Fianna Fáil has announced plans to propose an increase in the minimum required distance when a motorist overtakes a cyclist.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan Chris Enright has been appointed as director-general of Forensic Science Ireland (FSI).

A property developer who had an order of specific performance and damages in excess of €300,000 made against him has lost his appeal to the Supreme Court. Delivering the unanimous judgment, Ms Justice Iseult O’Malley was satisfied that the trial judge had not erred on the facts or the law; and h

An Irish environmental group has hailed a High Court ruling as the recognition, for the first time, of a right to environmental protection under the Constitution. In a judgment more than 300 pages long, Mr Justice Max Barrett said Friends of the Irish Environment had raised "profound constitutional

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan The Government has announced plans to opt into an EU directive providing for and regulating asylum seekers' access to the workforce.

Patrick Corrigan The UK government would be betraying victims' fundamental rights by introducing a "statute of limitations" to block the investigation of crimes committed by security forces during the Troubles, Amnesty International has warned.

Senator Ivana Bacik The Houses of the Oireachtas will next year host a series of events to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, which gave Irish women the right to vote and run in parliamentary elections.

International lawyers and experts have suggested Brexit is to blame for the failure of a British judge to be elected to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for the first time. Leading legal figures told The Brief that politics had at least partly contributed to Sir Christopher Greenwood's failu

Dr Luke Moffett A new report published by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) at QUB School of Law examines the legality of anti-personnel mines, booby traps and improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

The High Court has ordered the extradition of a man who claimed he would be exposed to inhumane and degrading treatment if he was surrendered to Northern Ireland. Damien Joseph McLaughlin, 40, was arrested in Donegal on foot of a European Arrest Warrant issued by Northern Ireland authorities earlier

Lord Hughes Primers on scientific evidence are being introduced in UK courts as a working tool for judges.