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The role of the Attorney General should be clarified in light of research showing that at least a dozen housing bills were blocked due to an "extremely restrictive" interpretation of the Constitution, a senator has said. Independent Senator Colette Kelleher today published research by the Oireachtas

Prisons expert Professor Phil Scraton has called for an independent inquiry into mental health services in Northern Ireland prisons after an internal review was postponed again. Former Justice Minister Claire Sudgen announced a review of procedures regarding vulnerable people in custody in 2016, but

Mercy Law Resource Centre (MLRC), which provides free legal advice to homeless people, has welcomed law student Louis O'Carroll as a legal intern. Mr O'Carroll, a student at Trinity College Dublin and winner of this year's Trinity FLAC moot competition, is due to commence his final year of stud

Sinead Morgan, senior associate in the employment team at DWF in Dublin, sets out the key legal considerations for any company offering remote working to its employees. Remote working, flexible working or homeworking? Whatever term you choose to use the desire for, and drive towards remote working i

The Law Society of Northern Ireland has launched a new online video which provides an overview of the Society’s client complaints process.

The planned five-week prorogation of Parliament will establish a "dangerous precedent" and undermine the "integrity" of the British constitution, a group of legal academics has warned. In a letter to The Times, the group of 21 academics from leading universities and research institutions, including

Paul Craig, professor of English law at St John's College, Oxford and an authority on administrative and EU law, writes about important issues of constitutional principle and law raised by the prospect of prorogation as well as those concerning fact and causation. Constitutional principle and law

Honey bees could be deployed to detect drugs and explosives as early as five years from now, according to a university researcher. Senior researcher Ross Gillanders at the University of St Andrews is training bees to search for land mines by tricking the bees into thinking they smell like nectar,&nb

The former business development manager of a gin distillery start-up has been awarded €9,533 for constructive dismissal and non-payment of wages. Adjudication Officer Marguerite Buckley said that the managing director of the company, for whom the start-up was a side venture, took “a lax v

A black solicitor has called on the Law Society of Ireland to carry out annual research on the numbers of Irish lawyers from ethnic minority backgrounds. Matthew Emeka Ezeani, who co-founded Ireland's first ethnic minority-led practice in 2002, told The Times that he believed "institutional racism"

Convictions for sexual offences are the most likely to be appealed but among the least likely to be successfully overturned, according to new analysis by The Irish Times. The newspaper has published its own analysis of around 300 criminal cases considered by the Court of Appeal since February 2017.

The constitutional right to property is contributing to the housing crisis by preventing "radical and innovation" legislation on the matter, a senator has said. Independent Senator Colette Kelleher made the remarks ahead of the publication of a new report tomorrow, which will explore how the constit

A majority of Irish employers would be willing to hire an ex-offender if they were provided with support to do so, according to new research by SOLAS, the Further Education and Training Authority. SOLAS and Mountjoy Prison are jointly hosting an event at Ibec's offices today on the benefit to workpl

Northern Ireland lawyers Claire Edgar and Gráinne Murphy are in Norway this week for a major conference on domestic violence. The European Conference on Domestic Violence, which was previously held in Belfast in 2016, is meeting this week in Oslo.

A legal challenge by former SDLP councillor Máiría Cahill over the requirement for local election candidates to disclose their home address will come before the Northern Ireland courts this week. Ms Cahill, who is supported in her case by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (N