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A teenager who broke the speed limit on his electric scooter has been slapped with penalty points on his future driving license. A court in Cleveland, England gave the 15-year-old six penalty points "which will be added to his driver's license when he is able to have one", police said.

A greyhound owner who brought an application for judicial review of a decision taken by the Control Appeal Committee of the Irish Greyhound Board has had his application dismissed in the High Court. The Appeal Committee had dismissed the man's appeal against a finding that a prohibited substance was

Leman Solicitors has announced a range of senior appointments as John Hogan takes over as managing partner. Mr Hogan has taken the reins from Larry Fenelon, now head of litigation at the firm, which has just doubled its footprint with an office renovation and expansion.

Northern Ireland's criminal justice watchdog has warned that the justice system is "struggling" to deliver acceptable outcomes for victims of sexual violence and abuse in spite of over a decade of warnings. Brendan McGuigan, the Chief Inspector of Criminal Justice in Northern Ireland, said the polic

The Mental Health Commission has rejected a claims that the chairman of a mental health tribunal subjected a solicitor to discriminatory remarks. In a sworn statement, Ashimedua Okonkwo told the High Court that tribunal chairman Eamonn Walsh BL stopped her representing a woman detained under the Men

A team from UCD Sutherland School of Law have bested their Dublin City University opponents to emerge champions of the biggest National Moot Court Competition yet.

Critical questions around decision-making in Northern Ireland in the absence of a functioning Northern Ireland Executive will be examined at an event hosted by The Bar of Northern Ireland later this month. The first event in The Bar's new Leaders in Legal Excellence Series will bring together Peter

Human rights commissions on both sides of the Irish border have called for a new UK-Ireland treaty to protect the smooth operation of the Common Travel Area (CTA) after Brexit. The joint committee of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission has

The UK government has been criticised for launching another appeal in the Article 50 legal case. The Court of Session in Edinburgh has made a referral to the Court of Justice of the European Union on the question whether the UK Parliament can revoke Article 50 TEU with the permission of the EU's oth

The PSNI has a backlog of nearly 300 Freedom of Information (FOI) requests which have not been answered within the statutory time limit, The Irish News reports. The backlog currently totals 273 requests, more than a fifth of the 1,270 requests received by the service this year so far.

A policy allowing the Home Office to request patient data from the NHS to target people for deportation has been abolished following a legal challenge. The agreement gave the Home Office access to confidential patient information to aid immigration enforcement.

Cork lawyer Danielle McLaughlin has launched a new anthology of prose and poetry by fellow legal professionals to raise money for charity. Counterparts: A Synergy of Law and Literature contains 22 "pairings" of writing by contemporary Irish lawyer-writers, paired with extracts from a judgment of the

A convicted fraudster escaped jail - for a while - by booking a flying lesson and asking the instructor to let him off in France. Jamie Colwell, 51, hatched the scheme to flee the UK after he and his father, Brian, were convicted of a £1 million VAT scam.

A man who left school at the age of 15 to work on the family farm, and who was promised a 90 acre plot by both his father and mother before their deaths, has successfully challenged his mother's will in which he was left just three acres after a family rift involving his in-laws. Finding that the ma

Cork solicitor Patrick Dorgan, a partner at Ronan Daly Jermyn, has taken office as president of the Law Society of Ireland for 2018/19. The property lawyer has served on the Council of the Law Society for nearly two decades and has served on most of its committees.