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The offence of withholding information from gardaí is unconstitutional, the Irish Human Right and Equality Commission has said. The commission yesterday appeared before the Supreme Court as amicus curiae in a significant case examining the right to silence when a person is questioned as part

The Northern Ireland Prison Service (NIPS) has apologised to a solicitor who was asked to remove a lapel badge for Irish language speakers before entering Maghaberry Prison. Jim McGinnis, head of the prison law department at Carlin Solicitors, was asked to remove the badge while going through securi

A rapist who followed a garda around a courtroom, shouting that he hoped she would "get run over by a bus", has been sentenced to an additional 20 months in prison. John Gavin, 31, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to threatening Garda Sergeant Amanda Flood at the Four Courts on 29 May

International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has had her entry visa to the US revoked. The decision is believed to be the country's response to Ms Bensouda's investigation into alleged war crimes committed by American forces in Afghanistan.

Over 100 people attended the OUTLaw Network's second event, "(Net)working for Change", in the offices of Arthur Cox this week.

A former trainee solicitor who admitted assaulting his now ex-girlfriend over a six month period is facing jail. Kevin McDaid, 32, was told by Judge Philip Babington to expect a lengthy period in prison when he appeared at a plea and sentencing hearing in Londonderry Crown Court yesterday, the Belfa

A Northern Ireland-born human rights lawyer has been jailed for six months after spitting in the face of a cabin crew member following a racist rant on a flight from India to London. Simone Burns, 50, known as Simone O'Broin, launched a profanity-laden tirade after she was refused more alcohol, havi

A sitting councillor has been forced to withdraw from next month's local government elections after refusing to publicly disclose her home address. Candidates for local government do not have the option of withholding their home address, even though candidates for Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Pa

Representatives from the Law Society of Northern Ireland and the Commonwealth Law Association (CLA) are set to attend a special plaque unveiling in Zambia next week. Brian Speers, vice-president of the CLA and treasurer of the Law Society of Northern Ireland, will join the Rt Hon Baroness Scotland o

HHD Solicitors sponsored a number of prizes at the Antrim Road Business Association's annual spring event.

A man who decided to become a lawyer because of his family's experience of a land dispute when he was six years old has managed to win the land back 23 years later. Jordan Kinyera, 29, took up his father's case in the long-running dispute and, on Monday, the High Court in Uganda ruled in his favour.

On 7 June 1917, William Hoey Kearney Redmond was killed in the attack on the Messines Ridge during the First World War, serving as a major in the Royal Irish Regiment of the British Army. A famous Irish Nationalist, Willie came from a family of parliamentarians – his father, William Archer Red

American inmate has 'no right to painless death' A murderer on death row in Missouri has no right to a "painless death", the US Supreme Court has ruled.

A pair of identical twins who refuse to admit which one is the father of a child have both been ordered to pay child maintenance. The child's paternity cannot be established by DNA test because the two possible fathers are identical twins, BBC News reports.

A man who was sentenced to five years imprisonment for conspiracy to import and possession with intent to supply cocaine has lost an appeal against his conviction. The man had argued that the search warrant for his flat in Dublin was invalid because it was almost identical to the original search war