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The Courts Service in Limerick has stopped publishing dates on which home repossession proceedings will be heard, The Irish Times reports. Applications for home repossessions were previously listed on the Courts Service website, with hearings held on the first Friday of every other month. Now, repos

The Department of Justice has launched a consultation on the statutory “age of digital consent” to be applied in Ireland as part of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Article 8 of the GDPR provides that, in the case of information society services offered directly to a child, pare

Justice Minister Claire Sugden The Northern Ireland Executive has backed plans to pardon gay and bisexual men convicted of abolished sexual offences.

Professor Siobhán Mullally Professor Siobhán Mullally has been re-elected to the Council of Europe's Group of Experts on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) for a second two-year term.

Lord Neuberger The UK Supreme Court has now received formal notification of the UK government’s intention to appeal the High Court’s decision of 3 November in the case of R (on the application of Miller & Dos Santos) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union.

Social housing sector tenants who challenged the so called “bedroom tax” have received a mixed outcome at the UK Supreme Court. Lord Neuberger, Lady Hale, Lord Mance, Lord Sumption, Lord Carnwath, Lord Hughes and Lord Toulson heard the cases, which relate to the cap on housing benefit introduced

Belfast's fifth annual Sports Law Conference, themed around Good Governance and Equality, has taken place in Law Society House.

EU law does not preclude an increase in the share capital of a bank without the agreement of the general meeting of the shareholders in a situation where there is a serious disturbance of the economy and the financial system of a member state, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ru

Lord Falconer of Thoroton QC A former Lord Chancellor has called on the incumbent to be replaced over her handling of the Brexit debacle.

A three-judge Court of Appeal has awarded a convicted rapist €17,225 after he sued the State for assault, negligence and breach of constitutional rights arising from an assault while he was a prisoner in Castlerea Prison. Overturning the finding of a High Court jury that had initially awarded the

A three-judge Court of Appeal has awarded a convicted rapist €17,225 after he sued the State for assault, negligence and breach of constitutional rights arising from an assault while he was a prisoner in Castlerea Prison. Overturning the finding of a High Court jury that had initially awarded the

Chris Hazzard The number of parking tickets issued annually in Northern Ireland is declining, the Assembly has heard.

A former solicitor who was €6.5 million in debt stole €260,000 from her clients after she made a series of “catastrophic” investments during the property boom, a court has heard. Jacqueline Durcan (47) previously from Co Mayo but with an address in Rue Laubespin, Brussels, Belgium, pleaded g

Neil Anderson In the past five years the number of police recorded offences for viewing child pornography has increased by 292 per cent to 231 offences in Northern Ireland.

Frances Fitzgerald Justice Minister announces appointment of new Legal Aid Board