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A former solicitor from Co Monaghan has been sentenced to three and a half years in jail after stealing €850,000 from his clients. Paul Madden pleaded guilty in Monaghan Circuit Court to 16 offences under the Criminal Justice Theft and Fraud Offences Act over the period between 2006 and 2013.

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Nominations will open this afternoon for the sixth annual AIB Private Banking Irish Law Awards. Firms and individuals can self-nominate or be nominated by external parties across almost 30 categories, some of which are new this year.

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Socialist MEP Mady Delvaux-Stehres Members of the European Parliament have agreed to vote on a proposal that would see robots granted legal status as “electronic persons” and have warned laws are needed to ensure machines are held responsible for “acts or omissions”.

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Shubha Banerjee London Central Employment Tribunal has today upheld the claims of over 200 judges for unlawful age, race and sex discrimination and equal pay against the Lord Chancellor and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) in relation to changes made to their pension entitlements.

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New legal challenges over the Brexit process have been lodged in the Irish and UK courts, The Guardian reports. London-based Jolyon Maugham QC will ask the High Court in Dublin to seek a ruling from the European Court of Justice on whether the activation of article 50 can be reversed.

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