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Global firm Pinsent Masons is searching for 10,000sq ft of office space in Dublin as part of its purported plans to open a base in the Irish capital, The Lawyer reports. According to the legal publication, Pinsent Masons instructed a commercial property agent in Dublin earlier this week to find a su

Gavin Booth The Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland will look into the 1992 shooting of Peter McCormack in Co Down, The Irish News reports.

The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland has allowed an appeal from the decision of an Industrial Tribunal (IT) which dismissed the claim of a Slovakian national with Asperger’s Syndrome for unlawful racial discrimination, unlawful disability discrimination, victimisation, harassment on grounds o

Gerry McAlinden QC, chair of the Bar Council of Northern Ireland Gerry McAlinden QC, chair of the Bar Council of Northern Ireland, has mounted a fierce defence of the judiciary in the pages of the Belfast News Letter.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has said asylum seekers in direct provision centres should be allowed to cook their own meals.

Paul Tweed Compromising pictures of actor Orlando Bloom which appeared in the press have sparked a debate about the balance between privacy rights and freedom of the press.

Darragh Mackin Lawyers for Irish citizen Ibrahim Halawa say an application for his release from jail in Cairo under the Egyptian Presidential Decree Law 140 will be lodged this week.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has passed files on 10 men accused of sex purchase offences to the Public Prosecution Service (PPS). It indicates a change of policy from last November, when the PSNI advised officers that those caught purchasing sex should be cautioned rather than prose

Doug Beattie MLA A member of the Northern Ireland Assembly's justice committee has called for more police resources to be dedicated to Internet crime after thousands were reported in the past year.

Transport Minister Shane Ross The Vehicle Clamping Act 2015 will be commenced in early Autumn, according to Transport Minister Shane Ross.

The UK Supreme Court has referred the question of whether a Directive on equal gender treatment as regards social security precludes the imposition in national law of a requirement that, in addition to satisfying the physical, social and psychological criteria for recognising a change of gender, a p

Lawyers across Pakistan went on strike yesterday in protest at at a bomb blast reported to have been aimed at the profession. On Monday a suicide bomb blast killed 67 people and injured a further 100 at a hospital in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan. The blast is reported to have delibe

A limited company, the Irish Skydiving Club Ltd (hereafter ISC) sought judicial review of the decision of An Bord Pleanála that the use by the ISC of Kilkenny Airfield for sponsored parachute jumping was a development and not an exempted development. Judgment was given in the trial of a modular iss

A High Court judge has called on the State to make "huge efforts" to prevent "bogus marriages", The Irish Times reports. Mr Justice Richard Humphreys made the remarks while delivering a reserved judgment in the case of a 45-year-old Algerian man, who contested his deportation order on the basis of h

There was a 95 per cent conviction rate in Ireland's Circuit Courts in 2014, the Irish Examiner reports. A total of 2,159 cases were finalised before the Circuit Courts in 2014, with a 100 per cent conviction rate in Monaghan, Donegal, Galway, and Leitrim.