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Seán FitzPatrick The former chairman of Anglo Irish Bank will go on trial for alleged breaches of the Companies Act 1990 in May 2016, a judge has confirmed.

Northern Ireland secretary Theresa Villiers A report on the status of paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland, commissioned by the UK government, is due to be presented to political parties on Thursday.

Karl Andree The children of a 74-year-old Briton who is to be given 350 lashes in Saudi Arabia as punishment for having homemade wine have appealed to the Prime Minister, David Cameron, to save him.

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, minister for new communities, culture, equality and drugs The Department of Justice and Equality (DJE) has called for written submissions to help shape a major human rights report to be submitted to the United Nations (UN) next year.

Ken Murphy, director-general of the Law Society The Law Society of Ireland has called for Capital Acquisitions Tax (CAT) thresholds to be raised in the State's 2016 Budget, calling the current levels "punitive".

SDLP MLA Alex Attwood Legislation proposed by the UK government to break the political deadlock in Northern Ireland has been rejected by Irish nationalists.

A senior scientist at Ireland's forensic science laboratory has told prosecutors its resources are being wasted on preliminary drugs tests for drugs possession cases. Dr Tom Hannigan, director of chemical sciences at Forensic Science Ireland (FSI), said presumptive tests, which seek to confirm wheth

Dr Bill Muth of Virginia Commonwealth University A half-day conference on prison education, parenting and re-entry will be hosted on Thursday by a partnership of two Dublin Institute of Technology schools.

Video footage filmed covertly by an undercover reporter can be used as evidence in the trial of six Health Service Executive (HSE) workers, a judge has ruled. Judge Mary Devins at Swinford District Court took submissions last Monday on the admissibility of the hidden camera footage, which was challe

Lord Phillips, former President of the Supreme Court and Senior Law Lord Over 340 leading ex-judges and lawyers have criticised the UK government's response to Europe's refugee crisis in an open letter published on the Internet.

Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales has said people must be able to access justice without having to instruct lawyers.

Tim Whewall BBC Radio 4's File on Four programme has investigated a "mind-bogglingly" complex financial scam which has seen Europe's poorest country robbed of $1 billion – with the trail leading to an ex-council flat in Edinburgh and fraudsters who have availed themselves of the Scottish Limited P

Almost 230 people were detained in Northern Ireland under section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000 last year, according to a statistical bulletin published by the Northern Ireland Office (NIO). It is the highest number of arrests made in the jurisdiction under anti-terror laws since 2005. Under the law,

An agreement that allowed technology companies and others to send personal data from the EU to the US has been declared invalid by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). Following the opinion of Advocate General Yves Bot, the court has ruled that the Safe Harbour agreement did not eliminate the abilit

Declan Black Leading business law firm Mason Hayes & Curran has announced it will have created 75 new jobs by the end of 2015.