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High Court judge Mr Justice Seamus Noonan has blamed "misinformation" for a series of judicial review applications which he dismissed yesterday. According to The Irish Times, Mr Justice Noonan dismissed several similar applications for a judicial review of repossession orders issued by Circuit Court

A woman who alleged that she was raped by two professional footballers has been awarded £100,000 damages in the first case of its kind in Scotland. A judge in the Court of Session ruled that both Scotland international David Goodwillie and his former Dundee United teammate David Robertson took adva

in the cartel during that period, the Commission considered that most of the proposed reductions were no longer appropriate for the period 1993-2004. The change in position of the Roullier group explains why it cannot rely on the principle of the protection of legitimate expectations regarding main

The drunk driver who killed Enda Dolan, the 18-year-old first-year architecture student at Queen's University, has had his sentence increased by two years after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) challenged the overly generous mitigation in the man’s sentencing. In a reference by the DPP un

Northern Ireland's power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive has collapsed, making fresh elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly inevitable. It follows the resignation last Tuesday of deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, who said he was resigning because First Minister Arlene Foster would not

Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir Northern Ireland's Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir has announced plans to challenge laws preventing the use of the Irish language in Northern Ireland courts.

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.

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.

Patrick Fleming Cleaver Fulton Rankin has become the first solicitor firm in Belfast to set up a specialist cyber risk unit aimed at tackling online crime.

Tim Gee Corporate deals in the UK will continue to drop on last year in the wake of Brexit uncertainty, according to one law firm.

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”.

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.

Maya Foa, director of Reprieve's death penalty team Human rights group Reprieve has criticised the UK government for failing to take steps to prevent the execution of three men in Bahrain.

An official liquidator of a company must provide the Revenue, as a significant creditor of the company in liquidation, with the detailed breakdown of work done in order for there to be a determination on the reasonableness of those fees, the High Court has ruled. The Revenue had contended that the f

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.