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A parliamentary draughtsman has warned that the length of new bills and the number of clauses they include is becoming so great that the UK's Parliament is unable to scrutinise them properly. In a new report Dangerous Trends in Modern Legislation... and how to reverse them, published by the Centre f

The High Court has found that the Minister for the Environment acted ultra vires under the Northern Ireland Act 1998 and Ministerial Code, following his unilateral adoption of the Belfast Metropolitan Area Plan, without Executive agreement. The Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Investment had chal

Ronan Daly Jermyn has announced the appointment of Peter McGarvey and Mary Purtill as partners in the firm’s Galway and Dublin offices.

Pictured: Declan Black, managing partner of Mason Hayes & Curran, at the opening of the National Library for Blind Children Dublin firm Mason Hayes & Curran (MHC) has helped to develop and fund a national library for visually impaired children.

Dorit McCann, partner in the corporate team at Carson McDowell Belfast firm Carson McDowell has warned that a clampdown on convictions under the Bribery Act 2010 is gathering pace.

Andrea McIlroy Rose, partner and head of UK retail property at Pinsent Masons International law firm Pinsent Masons advised on the sale of two of Northern Ireland's best-known retail parks - Junction One and The Outlet - for more than £40 million.

Salil Shetty, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Amnesty International reports that at least 1,634 people were executed in 25 countries in 2015. This represents a stark increase on the number of executions recorded in 2014 of more than 50 per cent; in 2014 the organisation recorded 1,061 ex

The Supreme Court has dismissed a judicial review appeal brought by an employee of the Review Commissioners, who disputed the Commissioners’ decision not to fund her professional legal qualification. The Supreme Court found that there had been too long a delay since the employee was first notified

Sinead Carroll This week, we reported that Jobs Minister Richard Bruton had met with leading members of the judiciary to win support for a revised Book of Quantum.

Belfast firm Carson McDowell has become the official legal patron of the construction industry in Northern Ireland, the Construction Employers Federation (CEF) has announced. Carson McDowell has signed up to the CEF Patronage Scheme, which sees organisations from a range of sectors come together to

Lawyers for Michaella McCollum, a 21-year-old woman recently freed from prison in Peru following a conviction for drug offences, are preparing to launch legal proceedings against an Irish newspaper. In a statement, solicitor Kevin Winters of Belfast firm KRW Law alleged that Ms McCollum's family was

Amnesty International has called for abortion laws to be reformed as a second case involving a woman accused of procuring drugs to induce a miscarriage comes before Belfast Crown Court. Yesterday, a 21-year-old woman was given a three-month jail sentence suspended for two years after illegally induc

The submissions deadline for the 10th North South Irish Criminology Conference has been extended to late April. The general theme of the conference, which takes place in Maynooth University on 23 and 24 June 2016, is: ‘Beyond the Penal State: Exploring the Boundaries of Punishment’.

The execution of a European Arrest Warrant must be deferred if there is a real risk of inhuman or degrading treatment because of the conditions of detention of the person concerned in the member state where the warrant was issued. And, if the existence of that risk cannot be discounted within a reas

A founder of the law firm at the centre of revelations into the offshore wealth of world leaders, criminals and others – disclosed in a cache of 11.5 million documents – has said the firm was hacked. Ramon Fonseca, of Panamanian firm Mossack Fonseca, has lodged a criminal complaint with prosecut