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Kildare barrister Jennifer King (née Morgan) BL has passed away. Mrs King graduated from Trinity College Dublin School of Law in 2004 and called to the Bar in 2006.

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Plans to implement major reforms to the family court system will be set out by the end of January 2026, the government has said. The Family Courts Act 2024 provides for the establishment of family court divisions within the existing court structures — a Family High Court, a Family Circuit Cour

The General Court of the European Union has annulled a decision by the European Commission to refuse a journalist's request for access to text messages exchanged between Ursula von der Leyen and the CEO of Pfizer. The New York Times journalist Matina Stevi submitted an application under th

A local authority has backed calls for "gender apartheid" to be recognised as a crime against humanity under international law. Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council this week gave unanimous support to a motion proposed by Fine Gael councillor Maurice Dockrell, who previously practised as a s

A lawyer who led a recent review of the UK's miscarriages of justice body has said it is “absolutely inevitable” that further miscarriages of justice will come to light following the quashing of Peter Sullivan’s murder conviction after nearly four decades in prison. Mr Sullivan was

A new book analysing sentencing in cases of serious sexual offences and exploring the factors that influence the decision-making of judges has been formally launched by justice minister Jim O'Callaghan. Sentencing Serious Sex Offenders: How Judges Decide When Discretion is Wide, published by Policy

Obstructing a school inspection is to become a criminal offence in Northern Ireland under proposals aimed at improving co-operation with the inspection process. The Department of Education has launched a public consultation on the proposals, which will run until 10 July 2025.

An original issue of the Magna Carta, long mistaken for a copy and sold in the 1940s for what one historian described as a “fairly derisory price”, has been identified at Harvard Law School Library. The document was acquired in 1946 from a London bookseller for just $27.50, before its tr

A judge has criticised two neighbours for spending hundreds of thousands of pounds in a legal dispute over "a tap and a pipe that doesn't matter".

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The Bar of Northern Ireland has unveiled a new display marking the opening for signatures of the new Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer. The large visual design piece at the Bar Library building on Chichester Street has been installed just as both the UK and I

The Scottish Parliament has voted for the first time to consider legalising assisted dying for people with terminal illnesses, following a lengthy debate. MSPs backed the bill by 70 votes to 56 in a free vote, after months of cross-party pre-legislative scrutiny, our sister publication Scottish Lega

A&L Goodbody's Belfast office has announced a new two-year charity partnership with Northern Ireland Hospice. NI Hospice is the only service of its kind in Northern Ireland providing specialist palliative care for both children and adults with life-threatening and life-limiting illnesses. The ho

Northern Ireland's High Court is to hear a damages claim from two of the "Hooded Men" after rejecting an application from the UK government to have their case dismissed. Liam Shannon and Jim Auld, represented by KRW LAW LLP, argue that there is new evidence pointing to torture which was not availabl