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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

Law Centre NI has moved to new premises in Belfast with effect from today. The charity offers free independent legal advice and assistance in the areas of employment, social security, health & social care and immigration & asylum.

Belfast solicitor Charlene Dempsey will deliver a talk on advising clients in police custody at the next Northern Ireland Young Solicitors Association (NIYSA) CPD event. Ms Dempsey, of HHD Solicitors, is the guest speaker at the CPD event on Friday 20 September in Law Society House.

The average prison time for money laundering offences rose to a record high of 27 months last year after the introduction of new sentencing guidelines, the Financial Times reports. Research undertaken by Thomson Reuters showed that the average length of jail sentences for offenders convicted of mone

A massive haul of suspected drugs seized by airport security turned out to be cake mix for a vegan bakery, police have said. An employee of vegan pizzeria Purezza was transporting the white powder in 25 blue bags and was held up while waiting for tests to be completed.

A legal challenge brought by a cross-party group of parliamentarians to temporarily halt the effect of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s advice to Her Majesty the Queen to shut down the UK Parliament ahead of “Brexit day” has been rejected by Scottish judges, our sister publication Sc

Former Irish president Professor Mary McAleese is expected to be nominated as the next chancellor of Trinity College Dublin, according to reports. The Belfast-born barrister, who served as the eighth president of Ireland from 1997 to 2011, is frontrunner to succeed Mary Robinson – the seventh