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The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has announced how it intends to work with the profession to eliminate unfair treatment of women barristers. This will include: reviewing how the BSB's approach to supervision and enforcement can take account of equality and diversity best practice; measuring the overall

The UK government is planning to strengthen its position on Brexit through a series of appointments to the House of Lords, The Guardian reports. Around 10 Conservative peers will join the chamber, as well as three Labour peers and either one or two Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) peers, sources told

The new ICCL mural The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has warned that the censorship of political art concerning the abortion referendum is having a "chilling effect".

Professor Michael Doherty, head of Maynooth University Department of Law, addressed a symposium on labour law in Málaga.

A plenary summons served on the King’s Inns by a solicitor claiming for breach of contract, has been set aside in the High Court, due to the fact that it was served outside of the 12-month period prescribed by Order 8, Rule 1 of the Rules of the Superior Courts. Also discharging an unqualified app

Amanda-Jayne Comyn Dublin firm Philip Lee has announced the appointment of Amanda-Jayne Comyn as a partner in the firm's tax department.

Pictured (l-r): Marina Keane and Leona McMahon Michael Houlihan & Partners (MHP) has announced the appointment of two new associate partners, Marina Keane and Leona McMahon.

Paul Vickers Lawyer Paul Vickers has been hired as a consultant by Independent News & Media (INM) to help it deal with an alleged data breach, the Sunday Business Post reports.

Mr Justice Paul Gilligan The President of the High Court, the Attorney General and leading members of the legal profession have paid tribute to Mr Justice Paul Gilligan on his retirement from the bench.

The House of Lords has today appointed an ad hoc select committee to consider and report on the Bribery Act 2010. The committee will be taking evidence throughout the summer and autumn, and will be reporting in 2019. The Bribery Act 2010 created two basic crimes of giving and receiving bribes, and c

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has been fined £325,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after it lost unencrypted DVDs containing recordings of police interviews. The DVDs contained recordings of interviews with 15 victims of child sex abuse, to be used at the trial.

Northern Ireland's Department of Justice has announced the launch of a new Business Crime Partnership (BCP) to tackle criminality affecting the local commercial sector. An action plan has been drawn up by the Department, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), the Northern Ireland Policing Bo

A book in braille produced by prisoners in Maghaberry Prison chronicling the history of the Ulster Division has been presented to the Somme Museum in Newtownards. A group of prisoners spent the past year typing the book, The History of the Ulster Division, in the prison's braille unit.

Documents from the Auschwitz trial have been added to the UNESCO "Memory of the World Register”, marking their importance as "common heritage of humanity”, The Local reports. The trial of 22 Nazi officials who ran the death camp, which lasted from 1963-65 in Frankfurt, was the first in which Ger

US gymnasts who were sexually abused by their doctor, Larry Nassar, are set to receive a $500 million settlement from Michigan State University (MSU), one of the largest settlements of its kind. California law firm Manly, Stewart & Finaldi announced the deal struck with the university on behalf