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Pictured (l-r): Triumphant team members Neil McDonagh, Belinda Widocka, Rebecca-Jane Kelly and Ben Lowry A team of first-year undergraduates at Ulster University (UU) have become the first from the university to win an external moot.

Criminal barristers in England and Wales have gone on strike over "relentless cuts" which have pushed the criminal justice system to collapse. In a document circulated to members, the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) said barristers "should consider not taking any work under representation orders from

Failure to hand over evidence undermining the prosecution case is often deliberate, it has been revealed in a dossier seen by The Times. Police officers are being trained to withhold evidence that might undermine their case, according to the documents.

Angelyn Rowan Eversheds Sutherland has advised the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA) on the procurement of a public-private partnership (PPP) agreement for the construction of two new buildings at DIT's Grangegorman campus.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel The mayor of Chicago will receive an honorary doctorate from NUI Galway at a ceremony today.

The vast majority of complaints to the Financial Services Ombudsman (FSO) last year were resolved through mediation. Of the 3,867 complaints closed in 2017, a total of 2,370 - more than 60 per cent - were closed using mediation through the Dispute Resolution Service (DRS).

The UK’s biggest police force is to ditch a policy of believing all rape complainants following a series of embarrassing failures into alleged sex crimes, The Times reports. Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan Police commissioner, has told officers to have an open mind when an allegation is made and c

A team of lawyers from HOMS Solicitors were out in force to clean the streets around its Limerick office over Easter weekend.

Patrick Corrigan, Amnesty's Northern Ireland programme director Amnesty International and the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) have condemned a death threat against an unnamed Belfast journalist.

A judge in Los Angeles has ruled that US coffee companies must include a cancer warning label on drinks because of a chemical produced during roasting. Superior Court judge Elihu Berle said that Starbucks as well as 90 other companies had failed to show that the threat from acrylamide, a carcinogen

A man who was unanimously convicted by a jury of seventeen counts of sexual assault and rape in 2016 has lost an appeal against his conviction. The man complained that the trial judge erred in admitting a memorandum of his Garda interview and also evidence about his admissions to the victim’s fami

Lawyers acting for Paddy Jackson, yesterday acquitted after a nine-week rape trial, have invited senior justice officials to discuss proposals to clamp down on social media commentary during trials. In a statement issued after the trial, solicitor Joe McVeigh of Belfast-based KRW Law said "vile comm

Winning student team Bronwyn Hogan, Darragh McDonagh, Orla Moriarty and Stephen Pearson A team of four third-level students have triumphed in McCann FitzGerald's Legal Apps Hackathon, the first-ever legal hackathon to use AI technology, with their white collar crime reporting app.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan A convicted murderer who was executed in 1882 is set to be posthumously pardoned on the recommendation of the Government.

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has resumed the publication of crime statistics under a new category of "under reservation". The CSO suspended the publication of crime figures last summer after data quality issues were identified in relation to gardaí figures on which the CSO relies.