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The UK government is proposing to give new powers to two independent human rights watchdogs in Northern Ireland after Brexit, The Detail reports. As part of its withdrawal deal, the government has committed to allocate special oversight and enforcement powers to the Northern Ireland Human Rights Com

A lawyer who overcharged a client by €650,000 faces a €94,000 bill in legal costs, the Irish Independent reports. Wicklow solicitor Joe Buckley, against whom costs were awarded, had failed in his challenge to a decision by the Taxing Master to cut a number of bills the lawyer had charged t

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan is attending a two-day meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs Council in Brussels with his European counterparts. Key items on the agenda for today include migration and new rules proposed by the European Commission to stop the spread of terrorist content online.

Lyndy Cantillon comments on a recent health debacle which saw patients' X-rays misread. Over twelve months ago the Health Service Executive announced that they were carrying out a review into some 46,000 CT scans, ultrasounds and chest X-Rays reported by an individual consultant radiologist at

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan hosted the commemorative ceremony at King’s Inns yesterday to mark the sixth annual national Missing Persons Day. Missing Persons Day is an annual day of commemoration which takes place on the first Wednesday in December each year. It commemorates those who ha

Downpatrick-based Murlands Solicitors raised nearly £2,700 for Northern Ireland Chest Heart and Stroke during its charity wills month in January.

The commercial wing of the St Andrews Links Trust has lost its appeal to register the Scottish town’s name as an EU trade mark for services relating to golf. St Andrews Links Ltd – which runs seven famous courses (including the Old Course) and is one of the town’s biggest employers

A church in the Netherlands has held a continuous prayer service for more than a month – in aid of a refugee family facing imminent deportation – as police are unable to raid places of worship under Dutch law. The Armenian family had its asylum requested dismissed on appeal after it was

A woman who brought a personal injury claim against Dunnes Stores, where she worked as a sales assistant when she fell from the second step of a ladder in 2014, has had her claim dismissed in the High Court. Finding that the woman's testimony was "fundamentally undermined" by CCTV footage shown in C

Augustus Cullen Law Solicitors (ACL) has announced the appointment of Ray Fitzpatrick and Damien Conroy as partners. Mr Fitzpatrick has been made partner in the property and commercial law team, while Mr Conroy has been made partner in the firm's general litigation team.

The number of ordinary judges in the Court of Appeal will be increased from nine to 15 under new Government plans to cut waiting times. Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan said the move would ensure that the court has "the necessary resources to ensure prompt and timely access to justice".

DWF Belfast is part of the UK-wide team that has secured an appointment to the UK government's Crown Commercial Service (CCS) legal framework panel. The CCS brings together policy, advice and direct buying to provide commercial services to the public sector. DWF has been appointed to a new three-yea

Divorce has become a "much less divisive" issue in Ireland in the two decades since the last divorce referendum, family law solicitor Keith Walsh has said. Mr Walsh discussed possible changes to Ireland's divorce laws on The Pat Kenny Show on Newstalk this morning amid reports that a new divorce ref

Employment law solicitor Richard Grogan of Richard Grogan & Associates writes for Irish Legal News following a landmark ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). This may sound like a strange heading. However, the CJEU's decision in case C-378/17, Minister for Justice and Eq

The UK government has published its full legal advice on the draft Brexit deal after government ministers were found to be in contempt of Parliament in an historic first. The government had failed to publish the advice of Attorney General Geoffrey Cox QC in spite of a binding vote to that effect by