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Airport customs officials have foiled an attempt to smuggle a looted Babylonian treasure dating from the second millennium BCE. The antiquity, believed to be worth at least hundreds of thousands of pounds, was identified in a customs declaration as a "carved stone for home decoration" worth just "30

A company which operates a nightclub in Dublin has successfully argued that it is entitled to set-off €52,000 owed to a security firm, in circumstances where the firm gave an indemnity for personal injury claims arising from acts, negligence, or failures in its provision of security services. I

Senior Irish lawyers will travel to Washington D.C. this week to launch a Government-backed initiative to promote Ireland as an international legal centre after Brexit. The Law Society of Ireland's director-general Ken Murphy and president Patrick Dorgan are travelling to the US today and will take

Mr Justice John MacMenamin has been named "judge-in-residence" at Dublin City University in a move set to strengthen links between the university's law school and the Irish judiciary. The Supreme Court justice will be formally welcomed to the role next Wednesday at DCU's Moot Court Grand Final.

The UK Government has announced that temporary import tariffs to be imposed in the event of a no-deal Brexit will not apply to goods crossing from Ireland into Northern Ireland. The details of the tariff regime were published today ahead of a vote in the House of Commons on whether or not to rule ou

A number of prisoners have been moved following a fire at Midlands Prison which damaged parts of the facility. The fire broke out in the attic of the E Division of the Co Laois prison last night and led to power outages.

A "no deal Brexit" does not amount to a "point of law of exceptional public importance” that would require determination by the superior courts in extradition cases, a High Court judge has said. Ms Justice Aileen Donnelly made the comments in refusing former Republican paramilitary Declan "Wha

Senior solicitors, barristers and a Court of Appeal judge are set to deliver bite-sized updates on the law at a fundraising event for the Capuchin Day Centre for Homeless People later this month. Attendees at the next Lawyers Against Homelessness (LAH) CPD event will hear from 12 speakers, including

Young barristers addressed A-level students in Belfast this month on the challenges they've faced while training and working as barristers. Five members of the Young Bar Association (YBA) took part in a panel discussion at the 28th Annual Inter-Schools Sixth Form Law Conference hosted by Methodist C

Belfast solicitor Laura Banks, who acted for Siobhan McLaughlin in her UK Supreme Court challenge to the rules governing the payment of a Widowed Parent’s Allowance, recently addressed members of UK charity Widowed and Young (WAY). Ms Banks, of Francis Hanna & Co. Solicitors, and Ms McLaug

Whitney Moore has won recognition as Ireland's Patent Contentious Firm of the Year at the 2019 Managing Intellectual Property Awards. Partners Aoife Murphy and Robin Hayes, as well as solicitor Caroline O'Connor, attended the London awards ceremony to receive the accolade.

Crown prosecutors have been given a 10 per cent salary boost following a decade of wage freezes. The First Division Association, which represents senior civil servants, negotiated with the UK government for the increase.

The governor of California has announced an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty in the US state. Governor Gavin Newsom, who was sworn in at the start of the year, will today sign an executive order granting a reprieve to prisoners on death row and closing down the execution chamber

The sentencing of prominent Iranian human rights lawyer and women’s rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh to 33 years in prison and 148 lashes in a new case against her has been described by Amnesty International as an outrageous injustice. The sentence, reported on her husband Reza Khanda

A lecturer at a top Scottish university was reported to police over an alleged "hate crime" after quoting Trainspotting on Instagram. James Mooney, a film and philosophy lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, screened the cult classic for a delegation of visiting American students last month.