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Pat Finucane The widow of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane will appeal against a ruling that the government's rejection of a statutory public inquiry was lawful.

Ged Nash, minister of state for jobs Legislation governing payments to construction subcontractors has not come into effect two years after being signed into law, Seanad Éireann has heard.

Pictured (l-r): David O'Donnell, partner and head of corporate, and David Mangan Dublin-based law firm Mason Hayes & Curran has appointed David Mangan as a partner in its corporate team.

European Citizen's Prize 2015 Ceremony A transgender rights activist who led a 22-year court battle for the recognition of trans people in Ireland has been awarded the Citizen's Prize from the European Parliament.

Independent TD Shane Ross Independent TD Shane Ross has presented a private member's bill that would introduce fixed-term parliaments in Ireland.

Paul Tweed Belfast solicitor Paul Tweed represented Hollywood stars Johnny Depp and Amber Heard in a successful challenge to The Mirror, according to the Irish Times.

The High Court in Tours, France has ruled that a 64-year-old intersex person's birth certificate should be amended to record their gender as "neutral". In an historic ruling on 20 August, the magistrate said that the "gender assigned at birth appears to be nothing but a fiction, forced on this perso

Lord Denning A majority of law students think the legal profession is socially exclusive according to a survey undertaken for The Times.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald yesterday announced details of planned spending in the justice and equality sector next year, including the provision of an extra €89 million in current expenditure.

Over 11,000 drivers have avoided conviction after being summoned to court for using their mobile phone while driving, according to the Courts Service of Ireland. The new figures show that more than 15,000 drivers received a court summons after failing to pay fixed-charge fines between January 2013-M

Two women who claimed their estranged husbands hid the true extent of their finances and that they were entitled to more money in their divorce settlements have won their appeals at the UK Supreme Court. In both cases, President of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger, sitting with Deputy President Lad

The average house price in Northern Ireland was £151,000 in August 2015, according to new figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS). Prices in August were up by 3 per cent compared to the same month in the previous year, but remain 43 per cent lower than their peak in 2007.

Jo-Anne Dobson MLA A private member's bill that would introduce a "soft opt-out" system for organ donation in Northern Ireland has passed its first hurdle in Stormont.

The Wilson doctrine protecting MPs from surveillance is a "political statement" with no legal effect, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has ruled. The tribunal said it was satisfied that assurances given around the surveillance of MPs by prime minister Harold Wilson in the 1960s, which have be

Lord Justice Leveson, president of the Queen's Bench Division Using quotas to boost the number of women and ethnic minority members of the judiciary would be the "antithesis of appointment on merit", a senior UK judge has said.