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Alternative sentencing and policy approaches are needed to reduce the offending rate among young adults, the Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) has said. Speaking ahead of a seminar on youth justice this afternoon, IPRT executive director Fíona Ní Chinnéide said young adults are mo

The High Court in Belfast will hand down its ruling on Monday on a legal challenge to the requirement for local and European election candidates to disclose their home address. Former SDLP councillor Máiría Cahill, who is supported by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC

One of the world's leading sports law specialists, Michael Beloff QC, addressed Northern Ireland lawyers at the eighth annual sports law conference at Law Society House.

Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental will be recognised by The Bar of Ireland at an awards ceremony later this month. Mr Reichental will receive the Bar's Human Rights Award 2019 in recognition of his work promoting tolerance and educating young people about the importance of remembrance and reconcili

The third Lawyers Against Homelessness (LAH) fundraising CPD event of the year is set to take place next month. The "Christmas Special" event will mark 50 years since the establishment of the Capuchin Day Centre for Homeless People and will hear from special guests including Mr Justice Kevin Cross a

Lawyers' groups have written to the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, over concerns about the detention of civilians, including lawyers, in Kashmir. The Bar Council of England and Wales and the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales expressed "serious concern" over reports that civilian

Edward “Ned” Kelly was a famous Irish-Australian bushranger and outlaw who was executed in November 1880. A martyr in the retelling of the British settlement of Australia, the story of Ned Kelly attracts a great degree of controversy as people disagree about whether he should be remember

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Protesters are calling on Serbia's finance minister to resign after it emerged that he had plagiarised parts of his PhD thesis. Ivanka Popovic, Dean of Belgrade University, has confirmed that Sinisa Mali's doctorate will be annulled.

A man who was unfairly dismissed and awarded €24,000 has had his award of compensation increased to €35,000 in an appeal brought by his former employer. Finding serious procedural failings in the disciplinary process which led to the man’s dismissal, Chairman Kevin Foley also said he

Whitney Moore has announced the promotion of Marie Claire Scullion, Vicky Riordan and Colin Hayes to partners in the firm's employment and dispute resolution teams. Ms Scullion is an employment and data protection specialist, providing pragmatic and commercial advice to employers and employees on al

More than 1,250 people have been made wards of court since legislators approved an overhaul of capacity law which has yet to come into force. The Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 aims to provide a modern statutory framework to support decision-making by adults with capacity difficulties,

The PSNI has been granted permission to appeal a landmark ruling on legacy investigations to the UK Supreme Court. The Court of Appeal in Belfast ruled in March that the Chief Constable of the PSNI had not demonstrated the independence of the PSNI's Legacy Investigation Branch, which is necessary fo

Law students Caoimhe Gethings and Andrea Whelton of UCD Sutherland School of Law have emerged as winners of the 10th National Moot Court Competition.

Garda stations in Dublin and Kerry have been piloting video-link access to Irish Sign Language interpreters in anticipation of new legislation coming into effect. An Garda Síochána partnered with the Centre for Deaf Studies at Trinity College Dublin and Sign Language Interpreting Servi