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The Lord Chief Justice has suggested making juries smaller to deal with the mounting backlog of criminal cases. Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, Lord Burnett of Maldon said “an opportunity was missed to introduce a temporary reduction in jury size” at the onset of the pandemic last year.

Society should adopt asynchronous legal hearings, Professor Richard Susskind has said. Speaking at an online conference hosted by the Judicial Institute for Scotland on what lies ahead for civil justice, the legal futurist laid out developments in the court system that he expects to see.

A man has been arrested in connection with the theft of 21 tonnes of pistachios valued at more than $100,000. California man Alberto Montemayor, 34, of Montemayor Trucking, was arrested after an audit of Touchstone Pistachio Company found that 42,000 pounds of the seeds were missing.

The Supreme Court has quashed a recommendation by the Labour Court for a Sectoral Employment Order setting minimum conditions for electrical workers’ pay because it failed to provide adequate reasoning for the decision. The SEO was recommended under the procedure set out in Chapter 3 of Indust

Intellectual property protection business Murgitroyd IP has appointed Belfast lawyer Joanne Lecky as managing director of its trade mark group. Ms Lecky has already been serving as interim managing director for trade marks prior to being confirmed for the permanent role.

Data regulation has replaced tax rate as the most important consideration for international organisations making location decisions, a new global survey by William Fry suggests. The law firm surveyed over 300 C-suite executives from leading companies around the world and found that tax had fallen fr

Cleaver Fulton Rankin associate director Brendan Martyn has been appointed as the Northern Ireland trustee of the UK Environmental Law Association (UKELA). Mr Martyn, elected at UKELA's AGM last week, will succeed CFR chairperson and director Karen Blair, who has served in the post for the maximum t

Children's rights expert Paddy Kelly has been appointed as the legally qualified commissioner to the Board of the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland (CCNI). Ms Kelly, a qualified barrister who also serves as director of the Children's Law Centre (CLC), has been appointed to the role for a five-

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Ireland has backed long-standing proposals to widen international participation in the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Employment Minister Damien English said the government had decided to ratify the 1986 Instrument for the Amendment of the ILO Constitution.

The UK Supreme Court has found that an accounting firm that incorrectly advised a building society that it could use a method of accounting known as “hedge accounting” to handle volatility in certain payments had negligently cost the society £32 million for the cost of ditching the

US law firms in London have begun another NQ salary battle after Milbank increased base salaries for NQs by $10,000 to $200,000 (£140,000). The firm was swiftly followed by rivals Davis Polk & Wardwell, who bumped theirs to $202,500 for first-year associates worldwide and Akin Gump, who ma

Around 1,600 suspects have been held on remand for over a year awaiting delayed Crown Court trials in England and Wales amid an enormous backlog which a £40 million cash injection has failed to resolve, according to reports. There are 40,000 cases waiting to be heard in the Crown Court –

A widower has been ordered to return his late wife's estate after breaking a clause in her will preventing him from remarrying. The man, known only as Constantino, was taken to court in Spain by his late wife's sister in a row over an alleged affair, The Times reports.

The High Court has struck out a claim against Clare County Council in which the plaintiff failed to produce a statement of claim for 22 months after the plenary summons had issued. In reaching this decision, the court applied Comcast International Holdings Incorporated & Ors. v. Minister for Pub