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Permission to appeal applications considered by the UK Supreme Court have fallen by 11 per cent over the past year according to the court’s annual report, laid before Parliament this week. The number of applications for permission to appeal considered by the justices decreased by 11 per cent to 19

The Bar of Northern Ireland held a successful membership drive for donated goods this month on behalf of its 2017-2018 Charity of the Year, The Welcome Organisation.

Pictured (l-r): Sarah Burrows, Cleaver Fulton Rankin; Anne Dawson, Barnardo’s Northern Ireland; Caroline Harris, Cleaver Fulton Rankin; and Lorraine Tierney, Cleaver Fulton Rankin. Staff at Belfast firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin have visited their chosen Charity of the Year, Barnardo's.

A seven-judge Supreme Court has unanimously found that that the Court of Appeal was incorrect to overturn a High Court jury’s finding of fact in a defamation case against the Sunday World. In 2008, after a 5-day trial, a jury had found that the defendant Newspaper had not proved that the defamed p

Northern Ireland's abortion laws are not incompatible with the Human Rights Act 1998, Northern Ireland's Court of Appeal has ruled. The court allowed Attorney General John Larkin's appeal against an earlier Order declaring Northern Ireland's abortion laws incompatible with the Human Rights Act in th

Wendy Lyon Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has come under criticism for saying "very little of substance" in his statement to the Seanad on the Supreme Court ruling on asylum seekers' right to work.

Ireland has been criticised for failing to implement recommendations relating to corruption prevention in respect of politicians, judges and prosecutors. In a new report, the Council of Europe's anti-corruption body, GRECO, said Ireland had fully implemented just three of 11 recommendations included

The Oireachtas justice committee has called for the establishment of a time-bound scheme with transparent criteria to regularise the position of undocumented migrants in Ireland. In a new report, the committee said such a scheme would give undocumented migrants a window of opportunity to come forwar

The Professional Regulatory and Disciplinary Association (PRDBA), a specialist association for Irish barristers, held a conference on the regulation of teachers last Friday.

Linda Johnston Belfast firm Francis Hanna & Co is embarking on a new partnership with Ascent Performance Group, a debt recovery law firm in Britain.

Chief Commissioner Emily Logan The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission appeared as an amicus curiae before five cases in the superior courts last year, according to the commission's annual report.

Solidarity TD Paul Murphy and five other men have been found not guilty of falsely imprisoning former Tánaiste Joan Burton and her adviser during a 2014 water charges protest. The jury of seven men and four women returned the unanimous verdicts today after just over three hours of deliberations.

The Department of Justice has published the latest data on court prosecutions, convictions and out of court disposals in Northern Ireland for 2016/17. The number of prosecutions disposed at Crown Court increased 43.4 per cent from 1,312 in 2015 to 1,882 in 2016, reversing the downward trend seen in

Maya Foa Reprieve and Privacy International have launched legal action after the UK government refused to reveal the subject matter or contents of a secret prime ministerial order governing the activities of the British security services.

Marcus Binney, executive president of SAVE Heritage experts and lawyers have expressed their opposition to plans approved last month to add a lecture theatre to the Inner Temple Library.