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Chief Justice Frank Clarke has announced a two-day online conference to help guide a working group on improving access to justice in Ireland. The conference, which will take place on 1-2 October 2021, is being hosted by the Chief Justice's working group, which was established in January and includes

A long-awaited review into the care of vulnerable people in Northern Ireland's prisons has been completed and a report is due to be published next week. The review was first announced in 2016 after a series of deaths in custody and was subsequently passed in December 2018 to the Regulation and Quali

Anti-vaccine protesters have failed in a bid to "bring London to a total standstill" by wantonly pressing buttons on pedestrian crossings. Members of a thousands-strong Facebook group were urged to "remind this government that NOTHING moves or happens in this country unless the people agree to

Data-driven measures to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic such as contact logging and tracing raise data protection concerns, experts from the Covid-19 Law and Human Rights Observatory at Trinity College Dublin have said. In a 69-page report published today, legal experts recommend the government should

Northern Ireland's justice minister Naomi Long has reassured Derry solicitors that the city's Bishop Street courthouse will reopen "once Covid has passed". Department of Justice officials have met with the Law Society of Northern Ireland and are set to meet with the Foyle Local Solicitors Associatio

Northern Ireland will be the first part of the UK to introduce a specific criminal offence of "downblousing" as part of a bill aimed at improving protections for victims of sexual offences and trafficking. Two new voyeurism offences covering upskirting and downblousing respectively form part of the

Northern Ireland human rights commissioner Maura Muldoon has passed away at the age of 62. Ms Muldoon was appointed to the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) for a three-year term just over a year ago.

Belfast family lawyer Claire Edgar has provided training on domestic abuse to Northern Ireland's new advocacy service for victims of domestic and sexual violence and abuse. Ms Edgar, family law partner at Francis Hanna & Co Solicitors, presented at a training panel event to welcome newly-appoint

Ireland is "the GDPR's worst bottleneck" and contributing to Europe's "enforcement paralysis" when it comes to data protection, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has concluded in a report submitted to the EU's justice commissioner. The report warns that Ireland has failed to send draft de

Chris Guy, managing partner and head of corporate at Mills Selig, has been named Northern Ireland's Dealmaker of the Year. Mr Guy was named as the winner of the top prize at the Northern Ireland Dealmakers Awards 2021 by Insider on Friday.

UK law firm TLT has signed the Greener Litigation Pledge as part of its aim to be a net zero business by 2025 and to support its clients with their own sustainability goals. Signatories commit to actively reducing, with a view to minimising, the environmental impacts of litigation in the English and

A middle-aged Liverpudlian spent three nights in a maximum-security jail after being mistaken for one of Italy's most-wanted mafia bosses. Prosecutors apologised to the 54-year-old, named only as Mark, after he was arrested at gunpoint at a restaurant in the Hague and taken blindfolded to jail, Dutc

Over €4.2 million was returned to the Exchequer by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) during 2020, according to its latest annual reports. In spite of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the CAB brought 31 new applications to the High Court under proceeds of crime legislation in 2020, matching t

Family lawyers have been urged to complete surveys related to legal aid fees before they close later this month. Solicitors who worked on proceedings in relation to Article 8 or Article 50 applications under the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 in the Family Proceedings Court (FPC) between Apr

The Oireachtas justice committee will turn its attention to courts and courthouses on its return from the summer recess. The justice committee has outlined its work programme for autumn 2021, which includes pre-legislative scrutiny on new hate crime and policing reform bills.