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A company’s application for the appointment of an examiner has been refused by the High Court on the basis that such an appointment would frustrate the outcome of recent contentious litigation. Justice Baker was not satisfied that the petition had been brought in good faith, stating that the true

Public Expenditure and Reform Minister Paschal Donohoe Public Expenditure and Reform Minister Paschal Donohoe today launched a new independent law centre to provide specialist legal advice to whistleblowers.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald will be "studying in detail" the calls for legislative reform by Gsoc chairperson Judge Mary Ellen Ring.

Pictured (l-r): Matthew Cole, Julian Yarr and Gina Conheady A&L Goodbody has announced the appointment of partners Matthew Cole and Gina Conheady to its Dublin and San Francisco offices.

The English bar’s regulatory board has issued a list of competences that the 15,000 barristers in England and Wales should be meeting on a day-to-day basis, including speaking audibly and using “correct … grammar, spelling and punctuation”. The Bar Standards Board's document lays out the “

Women are being penalised for being pregnant in workplaces throughout Northern Ireland, the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland (ECNI) has said. The ECNI recently helped three women settle cases against their employers for £3,000, £4,500, and £8,000.

Alan Turing A Scottish MP is to move ahead with proposing a bill that would see gay men who were convicted when homosexuality was a criminal offence pardoned.

Attorney General John Larkin QC Attorney General John Larkin QC is set to become involved in two Brexit challenges before the High Court.

A recidivist criminal serving a custodial sentence in the Midlands Prison for numerous offences applied to the High Court alleging that his committal warrants were not valid. Justice White found that the legislation upon which the prisoner made his submissions was not relevant, and that the prisoner

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald today launched the first Joint Strategy for the Management of Offenders and announced the extension of the Joint Agency Response to Crime (J-ARC).

Ireland's property crash was more severe and its recovery was more rapid than thought, according to new Central Statistics Office (CSO) figures. The CSO's new Residential Property Price Index (RPPI) covers all market transactions in the residential property market and measures price change with grea

Northern Ireland's Justice Minister Claire Sugden has told a conference in Belfast that she welcomes the work of the Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities (NICEM) in developing and sharing best practice in dealing with racist hate crime. Ms Sugden addressed representatives from criminal jus

David Isaac, the chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission The UK has failed to satisfy numerous human rights recommendations made by the United Nations and should do more to deal with hate crimes, prison overcrowding and stop and search powers, according to a coalition of 175 civil society

The Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) will launch a report on the rights of older people in prison at an event in Dublin next week. The Rights, Needs and Experiences of Older People in Prison in Ireland will be launched in the Ashling Hotel on Friday 30 September, the eve of the UN International Day o

Robin Newton, Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly Robin Newton, Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly, has called for a halt on new Private Member's Bills, The Irish News reports.