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A group of lawyers aiming to help tackle homelessness by raising cash for the Capuchin Day Centre for Homeless People has raised nearly €80,000 in its first year.

The Law Society of Ireland's annual Calcutta Run fundraiser has raised €4 million over the past two decades to help tackle homelessness in Dublin and Kolkata. Calcutta Run organisers recently presented the Peter McVerry Trust and The Hope Foundation with cheques for €150,000 each at an eve

A new anthology of writings by authors from a legal background, collected by former solicitor Danielle McLaughlin, is set to be launched in Cork and Dublin over this and next week. Proceeds from Counterparts: A Synergy of Law and Literature will support homelessness charity the Peter McVerry Trust.

People will be able to participate in court hearings via their smartphones, the Lord Chief Justice has said. Lord Burnett of Maldon explained the move would allow people on low incomes access to the justice system, The Times reports.

A town council has scrapped its long-standing ban on snowball fights after a sustained campaign by a local nine-year-old. Dane Best, who lives in Severance, a small town in the US state of Colorado, found out about the obscure, largely unenforced law during a school trip to town hall.

A convicted murderer who argued that the judge in his trial should have given an accomplice warning to the jury in relation to evidence from one of the key prosecution witnesses has lost his appeal to the Supreme Court. Dismissing the appeal, Mr Justice Peter Charleton said that the decision no

Article 50 TEU allows the unilateral revocation of the notification of the intention to withdraw from the EU, according to an Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union.  At the request of various MSPs, MPs and MEPs, the Inner House of the Court of Session, asks the Court of

Barry Devereux has been re-elected as managing partner of McCann FitzGerald for a second term, beginning next May. Mr Devereux, who was first elected in 2015, said his priority for the next term would be the continued pursuit of "Progressive Delivery", the firm's approach to bringing together legal,

Mr Justice John Hedigan, who retired from the Court of Appeal in October, has been appointed chair of the Irish Banking Culture Board (IBCB). The new independent board is an initiative of the banking industry aimed at rebuilding trust in the sector and embedding a "customer-first culture".

The family of a farmer killed when a neighbour drove a teleporter into him have said they "strongly believe that justice was not served" in the case and that it was an example of "victim blaming" in the Irish courts. Michael Ferris, 63, who drove the prongs of a teleporter into his neighbour Anthony

The Department of Justice has launched a public consultation seeking views on measures to address stalking in Northern Ireland. The Stalking - A Serious Concern consultation focuses on the impact of stalking on victims and the wider community and asks whether the introduction of a specific offence o

Nearly 12 hours have been set aside for TDs to debate abortion legislation today and tomorrow in a bid to get the legislation through the Dáil, The Times reports. Opposition TDs from Fianna Fáil and Solidarity-People Before Profit have given up their private members' time in order to h

Over 130 solicitors attended the Law Society of Northern Ireland's annual dinner on HMS Caroline in Belfast, sponsored by Stewart Title.

An Irish extradition expert has said there is no barrier to Ireland and the UK striking a bilateral extradition agreement in the event of a hard Brexit, The Irish Times reports. Anthony Hanrahan, a barrister and author of The European Arrest Warrant in Ireland, discussed the possibility of a hard Br

A doctor has been fined £14,000 for operating an illegal gender identity clinic, where she treated children as young as 12, The Times reports. Helen Webberley, 49, treated children at her home clinic, charging £75 to £150 an hour to patients who sought gender reassignment.