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Prison visits are set to be "temporarily suspended" in Northern Ireland from Friday evening following a tightening of Covid-19 restrictions. The Northern Ireland Prison Service (NIPS) said the decision was made "following a discussion with the Justice Minister" and in response to further restriction

Scottish lawyers have voiced their opposition to any entrenchment of remote justice following comments from the Lord President that Scotland's legal system will not return to the status quo. Since the lockdown in March, the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) has developed new digital

Félim Ó Maolmhána explores the drama surrounding Trump's proposed appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court of the United States. Ruth Bader Ginsburg served on the US Supreme Court for over 27 years. In the wake of her sad passing, President Donald Trump aims to fill

Leaders of Golden Dawn, the formerly insurgent far-right party of Greek politics, have been jailed after a court ruled the party is a criminal organisation linked to violent attacks including a 2013 murder. Party founder and leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos, along with six former Golden Dawn parliament

Scottish comic book writer Mark Millar, whose Kick-Ass series spawned two Hollywood movies, has finally fought off years-long litigation based on outlandish allegations of plagiarism. American writer Michael Bennett claimed that Mr Millar plagiarised large elements of his own virtually-unknown serie

The High Court has refused the surrender of Ian Bailey pursuant to a French EAW. Background

Chief Justice Frank Clarke has voiced "very serious concern" about the damage being caused by the ongoing golfgate saga after embattled Supreme Court judge Mr Justice Séamus Woulfe postponed their planned meeting for a third time. The former Attorney General was originally due to meet Chief J

The justice sector has been allocated a record €3 billion in the 2021 Budget revealed by ministers yesterday afternoon. Justice Minister Helen McEntee said the allocation will fund the recruitment of extra gardaí and Garda staff, the reform and upgrade of digital infrastructure across th

The Supreme Court has rebuked a High Court judge for making "quite remarkable and personally insulting comments" aimed at counsel in an international protection case. Ms Justice Marie Baker, handing down judgment yesterday in an appeal brought by a Ukrainian seeking to return to Ireland to apply for

Belfast-based MKB Law has announced the appointment of Amy Collins as an employment and corporate immigration solicitor. Ms Collins graduated from Ulster University in 2014 and qualified as a solicitor through the Institute of Professional Legal Studies (IPLS) in 2018.

Harry Nelson, the former Crown Solicitor for Northern Ireland, has passed away. Mr Nelson qualified as a solicitor in 1957 and was the Crown Solicitor for decades until 1992.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the existing procedure to revoke Irish citizenship from people who acquire Irish nationality is unconstitutional. Ms Justice Elizabeth Dunne, handing down her ruling in Ali Charaf Damache v the Minister for Justice and Equality today, said there were insufficient saf

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) continues to suffer from "indefensible" underfunding, a privacy expert has said. The watchdog has been allocated around €19 million in the 2021 Budget, a 13 per cent increase on the previous year.

Cleaver Fulton Rankin director Aaron Moore has been formally appointed to two construction industry adjudication panels. Mr Moore has joined the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' (RICS) panel of construction adjudicators and the Construction Industry Council's low value dispute module adjudi

Leo Mattersdorf, friend and accountant of Albert Einstein, claimed the great physicist once said to him during a meal that "the hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax". Benjamin Bestgen this week takes a look at this divisive subject. See last week's jurisprudential primer here.