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A man who was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for deception involving a vulnerable woman who was swindled out of €90,000 has lost an appeal against the severity of his sentence. Finding that the sentencing judge had not erred in fixing a headline sentence of 4.5 years where the maximum sent

Matheson has announced the appointment of seven new partners across a range of departments, bringing its partner count to 84.

More than 1,600 cases have been brought before the Court of Justice and the General Court of the EU for the second year in a row. A total of 1,656 cases were brought before the two courts in 2017 and 1,594 cases were closed.

Labour Senator Ivana Bacik Draft legislation to compel Irish companies to publish their gender pay gap should be implemented in the wake of similar legislation in the UK, Labour Senator Ivana Bacik has said.

The UK's top 100 law firms achieved fee income growth of 7.7 per cent in the quarter ending 31 January 2018 compared with the same period last year, according to the latest Quarterly Legal Sector Survey by Deloitte. Higher revenues this quarter have been driven by average increases in fee earner hea

Christian Donagh Matheson has advised on the first issuance and listing of a Sukuk bond that complies with the Sharia financing provisions of Irish tax law.

An online travel agent has been ordered by the French courts to stop selling Ryanair tickets without the Irish airline's permission. The Tribunal de Commerce de Paris (Commercial Court of Paris) said the offending company, Lastminute, was engaging in "parasitism".

A man who was arrested and convicted of using symbols of unconstitutional organisations after he posted a photo of SS chief Heinrich Himmler wearing a swastika armband on his blog in 2014 has failed in his appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. The applicant, Hans Burkhard Nix, has a blog on

President Erdogan Leaders of legal professions across Europe have called on Turkey to release more than 100 lawyers who were jailed in the wake of a failed coup against President Erdogan in 2016, The Brief reports.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has launched a revamped website highlighting the crime of human trafficking in Ireland.

A financial fund has been granted summary judgment for repayment of a €1.8 million loan which was facilitated by EBS in 2006. One of the property developers who agreed to the loan sought to argue that there was an oral agreement that he would not be personally liable to the loan, which was not inc

The Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) has called on the Government to expedite the ratification of an international torture treaty following the appointment of the new Inspector of Prisons. Healthcare specialist Patricia Gilheaney was yesterday announced as the new Inspector of Prisons, with effect fr

New analysis of the Good Friday Agreement has revealed its impact on peace deals worldwide. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh's Global Justice Academy found that key elements of the settlement, struck in April 1998, have become a common feature of other peace negotiations.

The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, which oversees the implementation of European Court of Human Rights judgments, closed a record number of 3,691 cases last year, leading to a 24 per cent decrease in the total number of outstanding cases. There were 7,584 pending cases at the end of 2

The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has said it is aiming to make a decision on whether to prosecute ex-soldiers in connection to the Bloody Sunday killings in 1972 by the end of summer. The PSNI sent a report to the PPS in December 2016 after completing interviews under caution of a number of ex-s