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Pictured (l-r): Jonathan Forrester and Karen Blair Belfast firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has announced strategic expansion plans for the next three years following the appointment of Jonathan Forrester as the firm's new managing director.

Pictured (l-r): Aidan Donnelly, Millicent Tate, Alan Reid, Eileen McLarnon, John O’Prey and Ronald Lowry County Down firm Murlands Solicitors have announced the appointment of Millicent Tate and John O’Prey as partners, in recognition of their dedication to the success of the business.

John Costello Prisoners released from life sentences should be given stable accommodation as a priority, according to John Costello, chairman of the Parole Board of Ireland.

A total of 196,909 court fines imposed since 2011, worth a total of €48.5 million, remain unpaid, the Irish Examiner reports. The latest figures from the Courts Service of Ireland show that the rate of evasion is increasing, with €16.5 million overdue at the end of 2017 compared to €7.5 millio

The Irish Prison Service (IPS) should have kept the Training Unit at Mountjoy Prison open in the short-term, a penal reform group has said. The Training Unit was closed with effect from yesterday to allow it to be repurposed as a dedicated unit for older prisoners.

Matthew Jury The UK government has failed victims by failing to provide proper and adequate support to UK victims of Libyan-sponsored IRA terrorism, lawyers have said.

Dublin firm Mason Hayes & Curran hosted an exhibition of children’s art, featuring paintings and sculpture, by the boys and girls from St Patrick’s National School, Ringsend.

Grindr, the hook-up app for gay and bi-sexual men, is being sued by a New York man who says his ex-boyfriend created numerous false accounts and sent over 1,100 men to his home over five months – seeking sex as part of a “rape fantasy”. Matthew Herrick is claiming product liability and is alle

The Court of Appeal will hear today arguments that a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) issued by the UK is no longer valid because of Brexit, the Belfast Telegraph reports. Michael Forde SC, representing Irish businessman Thomas Joseph O'Connor, will argue that the triggering of Article 50 means the UK

Melanie Crowley Mason Hayes & Curran has announced the appointment of partner Melanie Crowley as the firm's new head of employment law and benefits.

Kieran Kehoe Laois County Council is prepared to buy a greenfield site to allow a new courthouse to be built away from Portlaoise town centre, the Leinster Express reports.

Tributes have been paid to Michael Murray on his retirement as State solicitor for Limerick, the Limerick Post reports. Leading tributes in Limerick Circuit Courthouse, Judge John O’Donnell said locals were lucky to have been served by Mr Murray.

Six retired RUC officers have instructed a lawyer to prepare legal action against the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland (PONI) over an alleged data breach. It comes as a criminal investigation continues into the naming of at least eight ex-police officers in papers unlawfully disclosed to a law

Matheson staff will welcome colleagues from the American Bar Association's (ABA) employment law section to Dublin this May.

Sligo-based firm Callan Tansey raised over €1,000 for local charity North West Simon Community this month.