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Lord Justice Weir The senior judge undertaking a two-week review into 56 legacy cases has called for action to speed up the pace of investigations.

A judge has warned prosecutors that further delays in a terror suspect's trial may not be tolerated, the Belfast Telegraph reports. Henry Fitzsimons, 47, is alleged to have conspired with his two co-accused to murder members of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).

The High Court has made a judgment in default of defence against Sunday Newspapers Limited T/A Sunday World and Eugene Masterson, after they failed to deliver a defence in response to a claim that they defamed the character of Paul McNamara in an article published in the Sunday World on 21st Decembe

Colleen Rohan Five barristers will be sponsored by The Bar of Ireland this year to work with Innocence Projects in the USA to overturn wrongful convictions.

A number of Government websites, include those of the Department of Justice and the Courts Service, were inaccessible this morning due to a co-ordinated cyberattack. A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack began last night, The Journal reports, and continued into the late morning.

Kieran Conway A Dublin solicitor will be questioned by gardaí about the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings following revelations in his 2014 book, Southside Provisional.

Sir Hugh Orde A former chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has said the decision to wind up the Historical Enquiries Team (HET) was a "mistake".

An app developed by Dublin law firm Mason Hayes & Curran (MHC) in conjunction with the Institute of Directors in Ireland has been shortlisted for an award. The Cyber Security for Directors app has been shortlisted in the Best App category at the Accenture Digital Media Awards 2016.

A lawyer proposed transferring a harassment case to a court in a neighbouring county because of a lack of video link facilities in Co Kerry's seven courthouses. John West, 53, appeared in Killorglin District Court yesterday on a charge of harassing two adults and one minor between February 2014 and

The State is seeking to overturn an order by the Master of the High Court joining them in a lawsuit by three alleged sexual abuse victims. Three men who launched damages actions against teachers and two schools run by the Congregation of Christian Brothers applied to have the Education Minister and

A man who drove a car while his passenger attempted to throw eggs at Northern Ireland's deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness will forfeit £250 if he disrupts any politicians in the next year and a half. Aodhan Irwin, 21, was bound over for the next eighteen months by Judge Brian Archer after app

India is to press ahead with liberalising the country's legal services market to allow foreign lawyers the right to operate in the jurisdiction. The news was announced by UK Chancellor George Osborne, who met with India's Finance Minister Arun Jaitley this week.

A man has had his applications against the former CEO of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, the former CEO of the Land and Property Services, and two civil servants struck out on the basis the action failed to disclose a reasonable cause of action, was frivolous and vexatious or was otherwise a

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has rejected calls for the review of data retention legislation, through which the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) retrieved journalists' phone records, to also consider members of the public.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald A specific offence of forced marriage will be created by the end of 2017 as part of the Government's Second National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence 2016-2021.