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In an extensive and detailed judgment in the High Court, a Council’s decision to reject the planning application for a major housing scheme in South Dublin has been quashed. The property development company had applied for planning permission for the €75m development in 2015, which was rejected

Mrs Justice Susan Denham Senior members of the judiciary, including the Chief Justice of Ireland, Mrs Justice Susan Denham, have appealed to Dublin City Council to scrap plans for a park on land earmarked for the new family courts complex.

Justice Secretary Liz Truss Plans to scrap the Human Rights Act and replace it with a "British Bill of Rights" are to go ahead according to Justice Secretary Liz Truss.

Jonathan McKeown and Maurece Hutchinson Belfast- and Newry-based firm JMK Solicitors is set to recruit 10 new staff members this year as part of an ambitious new £1 million three-year business development plan.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Department of Justice officials have backed amending the Constitution to remove update provisions relating to "women in the home", The Irish Times reports.

Pictured (l-r, top-bottom): James Flanagan of Arthur Cox; Conor Toal of AMT-Sybex; William Curry of Arthur Cox; Morris McCracken and Tom Gilgun of the Central Procurement Directive; Brian Mitchell and Leonard Hayes of AMT-Sybex; Robert Huey; and David Torrens Arthur Cox advised Northern Ireland's De

Dr Rachel Killean Dr Rachel Killean has joined the Queen's University Belfast faculty as a lecturer in the School of Law.

In today’s Grand Chamber judgment in the case of J.K. and Others v. Sweden the European Court of Human Rights held, by ten votes to seven, that there would be: a violation of article 3 (prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment) of the European Convention on Human Rights if the ord

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson Human rights group Reprieve has written to Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in support of a British citizen on death row in Ethiopia, who they say continues to be refused access to a lawyer.

The High Court awarded €30,000 in general damages for injuries sustained by a cyclist as the result of a road traffic accident involving a taxi, while rejecting a majority of the cyclist's claim for special damages. The personal injury claim was brought by a bicycle courier against a taxi driver f

A cross-community group of MLAs are expected to file legal proceedings at the High Court in Belfast over the UK's Brexit vote. Raymond McCord, a prominent victims rights campaigner whose son was killed by loyalist paramilitaries in 1997, lodged an application for judicial review at the High Court ea

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has completed interviewing a number of former soldiers who were involved in the Bloody Sunday killings in 1972. A report is now being compiled, to be sent to the Public Prosecution Service (PPS).

Islamic extremists likely to radicalise their fellow inmates are to be held in special units in English and Welsh prisons, Justice Secretary Liz Truss (pictured) has announced. The plans will go along with new vetting measures for Muslim prison chaplains and the removal of extremist literature from

The UK's Justice Secretary Liz Truss is abandoning her predecessor's plans to roll out more problem-solving courts on the basis they would not be seen as tough on offenders, The Guardian reports. Insiders at the Ministry of Justice say former Justice Secretary Michael Gove's plans to bring more of t

A man has pleaded guilty at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for the 2012 destruction of religious monuments in Mali, marking the first time ever a defendant accused of war crimes has entered a guilty plea. Islamist Ahmad al-Mahdi pleaded guilty, telling judges he did so with deep regre