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A woman who has been living in a tent outside the offices of Carlow County Council has had her application for judicial review of council decisions refused by the High Court. Finding that the council had discretion under the Housing Act 1988, Mr Justice Meenan was satisfied that the decision to refu

Shane Ross The Independent TD and Government minister who has led calls for reform of judicial appointments in Ireland has said the hostility of judges to his proposals is understandable.

New practice directions will be issued by the presidents of the Court of Appeal and High Court to clarify the role of a non-legal person assisting a lay litigant, The Irish Times reports. The new directions, to be introduced from Sunday 1 October, will tighten up rules around so-called "McKenzie fri

Eilis Barry, chief executive of FLAC Legal rights group FLAC has welcomed a Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) ruling that three tenants had been discriminated against by their landlord when the landlord refused to facilitate their access to the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP).

Pictured (l-r): Philip Nolan and Oisín Tobin Dublin-based firm Mason Hayes & Curran (MHC) has promoted Oisín Tobin from senior associate to technology partner and head of the firm's newly-opened San Francisco office.

James Osborne, former managing partner of A&L Goodbody, has passed away at the age of 68. Mr Osborne, a well-known lawyer and former chairman of Independent News & Media (INM), died suddenly on Thursday.

A judge has blamed poor provision for people with mental health difficulties in Northern Ireland on former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the Belfast Telegraph reports. District Judge Barney McElholm told Londonderry Magistrates Court that public provision was "a disgrace" and "a legacy of Thatch

Alison Saunders Prosecutors in England and Wales have announced plans to treat online hate crimes as seriously as those committed face-to-face.

Over €1.5 million was paid into the poor box in Irish courts last year, a 19 per cent increase on the previous year, The Irish Times reports. Hundreds of charities benefited from the €1,553,609 collected in the District Courts in 2016, according to the Courts Service of Ireland.

Lady Hale Deputy President of the UK Supreme Court, Lady Hale, has stressed the importance of diversity in the judiciary in a lecture to the Constitutional Law Summer School in Belfast.

Professor Carl Baudenbacher A top EU judge has laid out a plan that would see the UK retaining access to the single market without being answerable to the Court of Justice after Brexit.

A statue of US Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney, who wrote the landmark pro-slavery Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling in 1857, has been removed from the grounds of Maryland's state legislature. The 19th Century court ruling held that "a negro, whose ancestors were imported into this country, and sol

A man who sought a declaration that his marriage in London was valid under the law of Northern Ireland has had his application refused by Mr Justice O’Hara, sitting in the High Court in Belfast. Finding that the recognition of his marriage as a civil partnership in Northern Ireland was not a viola

Mrs Justice Susan Denham Ireland's most senior judges criticised the Government's reform of judicial appointments in a previously-unreleased letter sent to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in June, The Irish Times reports.

A suspended Carlow solicitor has been found in contempt of High Court orders restraining her from acting as or holding herself out as a solicitor. Imelda Leahy, formerly practising as Imelda Leahy & Company Solicitors in County Carlow, was suspended by orders of the President of the High Court d