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Most legal employees in Northern Ireland received a pay rise in 2017, according to a regional Salary Survey Report by Abacus Professional Recruitment. According to the survey of 150 people across a variety of roles in the legal sector, 55 per cent of Northern Ireland legal employees saw a pay increa

The Electoral Commission has slapped campaign group Leave.EU with a £70,000 fine for breaching electoral law in the 2016 EU referendum. The group's chief executive, Liz Bilney, has also been referred to the police in connection with potential criminal offences.

The UK government has apologised for its role in a Libyan dissident's 2004 abduction, torture and rendition to Libya. In a letter, Prime Minister Theresa May acknowledged that an MI6 tip-off allowed Abdul Hakim Belhaj and his wife, Fatima Boudchar, to be detained by US forces in Thailand.

A former employee of An Post who was bullied and harassed by her co-workers after an incident in which another colleague was disciplined for aggressive behaviour towards her has been awarded over €161,000 in damages. In a judgment published yesterday, Mr Justice McDermott accepted that negligence

Pictured (l-r): Cian Clinch, Sarah Byrne, James Kelly, Martha Wilson, David Phelan, Conor Morgan, Fiona Shipsey, Tomás Nyhan and Jeremy Erwin Hayes Solicitors has announced the promotion of three partners and five associates across its healthcare, property and commercial teams.

Mason Hayes & Curran has appointed Gerard Kelly as head of the firm's intellectual property team, taking over from Richard Woulfe.

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin There is a "systematic overuse" of imprisonment as punishment in Ireland, according to a new report on penal reform and sentencing published by the Oireachtas justice committee.

The new Parole Bill will assign importance to the rights of victims as well as the rights of offenders, Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has told a conference hosted by the Law Society of Ireland.

The Department of Justice is hosting an event to inform stakeholders about the new arrangements for the collection and enforcement of financial penalties imposed in criminal courts. The new arrangements, due to take effect from 1 June 2018, are designed to tackle the long-standing problem of fine de

Pictured (l-r): Nicholas Butcher, Managing Partner, Maples and Calder; Joanne Drum, Education Officer, National Gallery of Ireland; and Sean Rainbird, Director, National Gallery of Ireland Maples and Calder has announced a new first-of-its-kind corporate partnership with the National Gallery of Irel

Gareth Noble, child law partner at KOD Lyons, addressed a public meeting on the needs of children with additional needs last night.

The UK government has accepted a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) proposal for a review of press standards in Northern Ireland. The review was dubbed a "Leveson for Northern Ireland" by DUP MP Ian Paisley, but it will not take the form of a statutory inquiry, according to Culture Secretary Matt Hanco

The High Court has directed that legislative changes must be made in order to address a “lacuna” in the Medical Practitioners Act 2007, which meant that the Medical Council of Ireland was unable to intervene in the Health Service Executive regularly appointing consultants who were not registered

Solicitor and banker Basil Geoghegan has been appointed chairman designate of DAA, the operator of Dublin Airport and Cork Airport. Mr Geoghegan (pictured) is a qualified solicitor, having worked with Slaughter and May in London. He holds an LLB from Trinity College Dublin and an LLM from the Europe

A new draft paper on legacy matters which has been circulated by the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) does not include controversial proposals for a statute of limitations for prosecuting ex-soldiers. The UK government suggested last year that it would include such a measure in the consultation documen