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Police are searching for thieves who stole a whole vineyard of grapes. The thieves made off with their grape haul by "running a professional harvesting machine over the entire vineyard", police in southern Germany told the Rheinpfalz newspaper.

Six members of the Irish Countrywomen's Association (ICA) have been granted relief in the High Court in relation to serious procedural irregularities in its 2018 election which they said were in breach of the Constitution of the ICA. In a recently published judgment, Ms Justice Una Ní Raifear

The Irish Refugee Council (IRC) has announced the appointment of Katie Mannion as managing solicitor. Ms Mannion will be leading the independent law centre's work on strategic litigation and early legal advice for asylum seekers.

Leman Solicitors has announced the appointment of Kilian McCarthy as a legal executive in the Dublin firm's litigation team. Mr McCarthy studied at DIT and University College Dublin, where he received his Master of Laws in International Commercial Law.

Dublin firm Reddy Charlton has announced the appointment of Eoin Paterson as its new company secretarial manager. Mr Paterson, a law graduate from Ulster University, joins from A&L Goodbody, where he was a legal executive in banking and property.

The judge-led review of the administration of justice in serious sexual offence cases is ahead of schedule and will publish its recommendations next month, according to reports. Sir John Gillen, a retired Court of Appeal judge, was appointed in April to carry out an independent review which was expe

TV presenter and comedian Dara Ó Briain was the guest speaker at the Irish Venture Capital Association's (IVCA) 33rd annual dinner, sponsored by Mason Hayes & Curran.

High Court judges could receive an extra £60,000 a year if new salary recommendations are accepted. The Senior Salaries Review Body has suggested that senior judges in England and Wales receive pay rises of up to 32 per cent.

The Probation Board for Northern Ireland has officially opened a new office in Omagh, based in the Sperrin Centre alongside justice partner organisations such as the Youth Justice Agency. Probation supervises a number of people on community sentences within the Omagh area to guide their rehabilitati

Health authorities in Norway have been told to respect medical professionals' right to conscientious objection after the country's Supreme Court found in favour of a doctor who refused to administer a procedure that could have resulted in an abortion. In a judgment published yesterday, the court fou

Poland has pushed ahead with the appointment of 27 judges to its Supreme Court bench in spite of pressure from the international legal community and the EU, which believes its judicial reforms are illegal. A spokesperson for President Andrzej Duda said the government was "implementing another stage

An Israeli court has ordered two New Zealand activists to pay more than €10,700 in damages after they persuaded pop singer Lorde to cancel a concert in Tel Aviv. However, legal experts have said the likelihood of the Jerusalem Magistrates' Court judgment being enforced in New Zealand is slim.

The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) was established in 1967, and one of its main goals was to achieve 'one man, one vote' in Northern Ireland. The plural voting system, which gave business owners and university degree holders an extra vote, had been abolished in the rest of the UK

A mafia hitman testified against his former colleagues is suing a TV network over a drama which revealed his past to his teenage daughter. Pasquale di Filippo spent ten years in jail after admitting to four murders, but helped convict other mafia bosses and was granted a new identity on his release.