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Following his full judgment on 30 November, Horner J of the Northern Ireland High Court of Justice has found that it is not possible to read Northern Ireland’s abortion law in a way that is compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights. The Judge had invited further submissions on the is

Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns Tributes were paid in the Four Courts on Friday to Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns, the outgoing President of the High Court, as he sat on the bench for the last time.

Attorney General Máire Whelan Attorney General Máire Whelan has called for a review of Ireland's defamation laws in order to ensure court reporters are not exposed to the risk of litigation.

A mass trial in Egypt involving Irish citizen Ibrahim Halawa was postponed for the eleventh time after Egyptian lawyers walked out of court, The Irish Times reports. Lawyers for 420 defendants, who stand accused of participating in a political protest in 2013, walked out of the courtroom in protest

Lord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan A bid by the widow of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane to overturn a High Court ruling which found that Prime Minister David Cameron was justified in refusing an inquest into his death will be heard in April.

Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns, outgoing president of Ireland's High Court, has warned his colleagues to avoid making excessive interventions in public investigations. Speaking on Friday, his final day of the bench, Mr Justice Kearns suggested that successive court interventions had "virtually paralysed

Pictured (l-r): Seanna Mulrean and Shane Neville Dublin firm LK Shields has announced the promotion of Seanna Mulrean and Shane Neville as partners in the corporate & commercial and litigation & dispute resolution departments respectively.

The High Court in Dublin has ruled that a woman who hid her pregnancy from her ex-partner can have her three-year-old child adopted despite refusing to identify the child's father. The unnamed 22-year-old woman went to court to win the right to put her child up for adoption despite refusing to ident

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald The Courts Service of Ireland has signed a contract to deliver four new courthouses in Drogheda, Letterkenny, Limerick and Wexford, as well as courthouse improvements in Cork, Mullingar and Waterford.

President Michael D Higgins President Michael D Higgins has signed the first posthumous pardon in Irish history for a man who was wrongly executed for murder.

A man has failed in his attempt to have section 3(2) of the Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1972 declared unconstitutional. The provision allows as evidence the belief of a Chief Superintendent of An Garda Síochána that a person accused of the criminal offence of membership of the Irish

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Legislation to bring Irish bankruptcy terms in line with Northern Ireland and the UK while freeing up court time and resources has been approved by the Oireachtas.

Mr Justice Peter Kelly A businessman has lodged High Court proceedings aiming to block the appointment of Mr Justice Peter Kelly as the next president of the High Court.

The Northern Ireland Executive has appointed a three-person panel to develop an anti-paramilitarism strategy for Northern Ireland. Delivering on a key commitment from recent cross-party talks, the Executive tasked Lord Alderdice, Monica McWilliams and John McBurney with developing continued recommen

In a case that will likely carry implications for the conduct of future elections, the Supreme Court has ordered a recount of votes cast in the 2014 local elections for the Listowel electoral area in North Kerry. The court unanimously upheld a claim by former Senator Dan Kiely that a mistake in cond