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A man who was wrongly convicted of the murder of a judge's daughter in Northern Ireland appealed directly to British prime minister, Harold Wilson, in 1969, a new file reveals. Iain Hay Gordon, from Glasgow, was found “guilty but insane” over the murder of Patricia Curran in 1952.

The Post Office has paid lawyers a quarter of a billion pounds in legal fees over the Horizon scandal, close to the amount given to victims. The state body paid out £256.9 million to 15 law firms and two barristers’ chambers between September 2014 and March 2024, according a freedom of i

James Douglas, executive director of Irish Rule of Law International (IRLI) has passed away. The Bar of Ireland stated: "James' work with IRLI, and in particular the projects across the African Continent, and before that South East Asia, was hugely regarded and impactful.

Addleshaw Goddard Ireland has announced it will move to a new office premises at Fitzwilliam No.28 in January 2025. The international law firm announced earlier this year that revenue at its Dublin office has increased by 45 per cent over the past two years. Located on Dublin’s Georgian mile,

A man whose head was bleeding after a hair transplant was arrested after refusing to leave a plane. Eugenio Ernesto Hernandez-Garnier and his female companion were removed from the aircraft at Miami airport, local media reports.

Hundreds of members of Afghanistan's security forces have been dismissed by the morality police for failing to grow beards. The Taliban's Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Propagation of Virtue fired the beardless men – who are among 13,000 people who have been detained for immoral acts

Secret court hearings are in need of reform, a former lord chief justice of England and Wales has said. Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd said that the single justice procedure (SJP) is unfair.

An appeal by a 99-year-old woman convicted of being an accessory to the murder of 10,505 people when she was secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp has been rejected. Germany's Federal Court of Justice upheld the conviction of Irmgard Furchner, who was given a

The Midland Solicitors Bar Association in conjunction with the Courts Service held an event in Mullingar Courthouse to commemorate the late solicitor and poet Vicky McCarthy Keane, who passed away from motor neurone disease.

Businesses have been told to keep all their internal data after a company was fined €15.9m by the European Commission earlier this year. The Commission fined International Flavors & Fragrances Inc and International Flavors & Fragrances France SAS (IFF) following an investigation in whic

Dear Editor, Your article on the appointment of RDJ by Kerry Co-op on the 19th of August is far from accurate. First and foremost, Kerry Co-op is owned by all the shareholders, 20 per cent of which are milk suppliers.

Chris Jennings has joined MKB Law's property team.

Eleven missing persons were identified last year with the assistance of Forensic Science Ireland (FSI), its latest report shows. With the July 2023 completion of FSI’s long-awaited purpose-built facility, the 2023 report reflects on a landmark year for Forensic Science Ireland during which:

A fugitive accused of murder has been found – working as a police officer. Antonio Riano was wanted for the shooting of Benjamin Becarra, 25, in the US state of Ohio, in 2004.

The UK's legal services market has grown by more than 12 per cent in the past year, new figures show. Lawyers are on track for a record year after data from the Office of National Statistics indicated that they had recorded their second highest monthly billings on record.