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The Glasgow Bar Association’s self-proclaimed ‘Golden Generation’ of footballers travelled to Ballymena on Saturday for a friendly match with Ballymena Utd as part of their ‘Peace & Goodwill Tour’ 2018.

The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) has scrapped plans to build new community prisons for women in England and Wales following the launch of an "innovative" new female offender strategy. Justice Secretary David Gauke said the new approach will see the UK government divert the most vulnerable women in the

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A company that submitted a tender for a towing contract with An Garda Síochána can proceed with an application for judicial review of the decision to award the contract to another company, after the Commissioner of An Garda Síochána was unsuccessful in its application to have the proceedings dis

An application by AIB for summary judgement of €5.8 million against a Dublin solicitor has been admitted to the fast-track Commercial Court list. The application has been brought by the bank against John Reid in respect of monies that remain outstanding from loans advanced to the solicitor between

PSNI deputy chief constable Drew Harris has been named as the next Garda Commissioner. Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan announced the appointment for a five-year term this morning.

Richard Masters Pinsent Masons today revealed its unaudited results for 2017-18 which shows global turnover increased by six per cent to £449.8 million.

The Cabinet has approved draft legislation requiring businesses to publish information on the gender pay gap in their firm. Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan and Equality Minister David Stanton have published the General Scheme of the Gender Pay Gap Information Bill.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that the UK discriminated against a transgender woman who was denied a pension on reaching the retirement age for women. The case concerned transgender woman MB, who was assigned male at birth in 1948, married a woman in 1974, began to live as a woman in

A new report has claimed that European Arrest Warrants are "too often being used for small offences" instead of their intended function of tackling serious crime and terrorism. Campaign group Fair Trials will present its critical report on the system to the European Parliament later this week, The B

Liam Herrick The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has reiterated its "urgent call" for the Government to ratify the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture (OPCAT).

Aisling Scott An Irish-born lawyer is set to appear on reality TV show Come Dine With Me this week.

in separate proceedings with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council (DLR) in 2013, and indicating that ILG expected to deliver a similar defence to the debt that was the subject of the default judgment. Mr Justice Barrett said that it was still unexplained why:

A new co-located family mediation centre and law centre has been officially opened by the Legal Aid Board in Kilkenny.

An Garda Síochána has launched an internal review to examine how a criminal trial in Belfast collapsed over unsafe evidence. Last week, Damien McLaughlin, 41, was found not guilty in a non-jury trial in Belfast Crown Court of aiding and abetting the murder of Northern Ireland prison officer David