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Youth justice campaigners have welcomed the Government's latest progress report on the Youth Justice Action Plan 2014-18, while noting continuing concern for children in detention. The report for 2014/15 outlines "significant progress" in implementing the Action Plan under each of its five high-leve

Court documents should be more readily accessible, an Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union has proposed. Regulation No 1049/2001 obliges the Commission to grant a third party access to the pleadings submitted by a member state, of which it holds a copy, in a case that has a

Christmas home leave has been granted to 93 prisoners in Northern Ireland this year, the Northern Ireland Prison Service has confirmed. The figure is a slight decline on 2015, when 108 were granted leave.

EU law does not, in principle, prevent a member state from opposing collective redundancies in certain circumstances in the interests of the protection of workers and of employment. However, under such national legislation, which must in that case seek to reconcile and strike a fair balance between,

The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, has speculated in a speech to lawyers in Wales that artificial intelligence (AI) will soon become better than QCs at predicting the outcome of cases. Speaking at Legal Wales: Shaping The Future, Lord Thomas said: "The most importa

Young people at Woodlands Juvenile Justice Centre in Bangor were joined by parents, families and invited guests as the annual carol service hosted by the Youth Justice Agency (YJA).

Kieran Donnelly The level of outstanding fines in Northern Ireland is "exceptionally high", according to the Northern Ireland Audit Office.

Discrimination resulting in the denial of a basic education is a sufficiently severe violation of basic human rights so as to amount in law to persecution, the Supreme Court has found. In the circumstances of the particular case involving a Serbian child of Ashkali ethnicity, Mr Justice Clarke found

Legal bodies have welcomed Luxembourg's ruling on indiscriminate retention of data as a blow to legislation that undermines legal professional privilege (LPP). The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that EU law precludes national legislation that prescribes general and indiscriminate reten

Ireland must recover the sum of €8 per passenger from airlines benefiting from unlawful state aid because the difference between the lower and normal rates of the Irish air travel tax constitutes unlawful aid which must be recovered regardless of the benefit the airlines actually derived from the

The Department of Justice cannot be compelled to legislate to protect the identities of minors who are suspected of crimes, the High Court in Belfast has ruled. It follows a legal challenge by a 15-year-old boy who was identified in newspapers as a suspect in a cyber attack.

Attorney General John Larkin QC Northern Ireland's Attorney General John Larkin QC is too late to refer the Ashers discrimination case to the UK Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston A free trade agreement between the EU and Singapore can only be concluded by the EU and the member states acting jointly, according to the Opinion of Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston, contrary to the position of the Commission and European Parliament – both of

Pictured (l-r): Rachael Doyle, Mrs Susan Denham and Ross Power Two Maynooth University graduates who took part in the Superior Courts Summer Intern Programme have encouraged others to apply.

Northern Ireland's Justice Minister Claire Sugden has announced an immediate pre-Christmas £240,000 capital funding package for voluntary Search and Rescue groups in Northern Ireland.