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The American Bar Association (ABA), which represents over 400,000 attorneys in the United States, has called for an FBI investigation into sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh. The US Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday heard testimony from Professor Christ

In Murphy v Attorney General [1982] IR 241, a married couple challenged the constitutionality of ss. 192-198 of the Income Tax Act 1967 which deemed the income of a married woman, living with her husband, be her husband’s income for tax purposes and not her own. The case was supported by the

A man who hit a parking warden with his car in a bid to avoid airport drop-off fees has been spared jail by a judge who recently faced them. Judge Bernard Lever slapped Graham Benbow, 55, with a six-month sentence suspended for two years.

The Child And Family Agency (Tusla) has been granted orders pursuant to the Adoption Act 2010 for the adoption of a child in favour of foster parents who have cared for him since October 2000, when he was thirteen weeks old. The birth parents opposed the adoption, however Mr Justice Michael MacGrath

Arthur Cox has announced the appointment of Matt Dunn as a partner and head of the firm's project and infrastructure finance group. Mr Dunn joins from Clifford Chance, where he was a partner in the finance department.

Legislation allowing courts to make awards of damages in cases of catastrophic injury by way of periodic payments orders will be commenced in October, the Government has announced. Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan yesterday signed the commencement order for parts 1, 2 and 3 of the Civil Liability (

A summit hosted by Pinsent Masons welcomed in-house counsel from across Ireland to hear insights from leading members of the profession.

Two directors at Cleaver Fulton Rankin Solicitors have been awarded a market-leading diploma in adjudication after training with the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Directors Patrick Fleming, head of dispute resolution and construction, and Aaron Moore have obtained the Diploma in Adj

Michael Donnellan, director-general of the Irish Prison Service, has announced that he will be stepping down at the end of November. Mr Donnellan was re-appointed to the post last January for a second five-year term, but will now depart on 30 November 2018.

Northern Ireland's prison population declined by more than two per cent in 2017/18, according to new Department of Justice figures. The latest statistical bulletin reveals that the overall average daily prison population in 2017/18 was 1,439, down 2.2 per cent on the year before.

The Pro Bono Choir, made up of solicitors, barristers and judges, has presented a cheque for £3,500 to Alzheimer's Society NI. The funds are the proceeds of the choir's sell-out performance, "A Night in the Museum 2", at the Ulster Museum in Belfast in May.

More than a third of women claim they have been sexually harassed at work in the last 12 months, a new study has found. Thirty-seven per cent say they have experienced harassment and 39 per cent have witnessed colleagues being abused.

A former librarian turned PhD candidate at University of Birmingham Law School has used Twitter to shine a light on Ireland's history of censorship. Alana Farrell, from Portlaoise, has been tweeting since Monday about the history of Ireland's Censorship of Publications Board to coincide with Banned

The Government has not indicated any plans to crack down on controversial "loot boxes" in video games after joining an international declaration condemning the "blurring of lines between gaming and gambling". David Stanton, minister of state in the Department of Justice, was speaking to the Seanad a

A school bus driver who allegedly let children as young as 11 take the wheel has been arrested. Joandrea McAtee, 27, is suspected by police of having allowed three pupils aged 11, 13 and 17 to drive the bus for a short distance on a rural road.