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Ulster University academic Professor Cath Collins has led an exchange between a delegation of relatives and pro bono human rights lawyers from Chile and their counterparts in Uruguay. Professor Collins is a professor of transitional justice at the Transitional Justice Institute (TJI), a law-led inte

Belfast firm John McKee has announced a "substantial investment" in a market intelligence data system aimed at helping clients manage risks when making business transactions. The commercial law firm said the "big data" technology would allow the firm to provide real-time market advice, with 60,000 d

A transgender man who gave birth to a child has lost a legal bid to be named as a father on the child's birth certificate. The High Court in London has ruled that Freddy McConnell, who is recognised as "male" on his civil documents, must be recorded as the child's "mother".

Three people have been arrested in Russia's autonomous region of Chechnya on suspicion of "practising sorcery", according to local media reports. In a broadcast on Grozny TV, a local station run by Chechen authorities, two women and one man are accused of "selling their souls to the Devil" by Adam E

Paramilitaries and organised criminals "cannot be allowed to take advantage of Brexit", Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has told a major cross-border conference on organised crime. Representatives of An Garda Síochána, the PSNI, the National Crime Agency, the Revenue Commissioners, H

A chef has launched a lawsuit against the famous Michelin guide after an inspector stripped him of his third star – allegedly because he wrongly assumed his cheese soufflé used cheddar. Marc Veyrat, a celebrity French chef, said the reviewer "insulted our region" after wrongly suggestin

The family justice system in Ireland is "at a crisis point" with reform frustrated by poor facilities, ineffective use of funding and an overly-adversarial approach to cases, the Legal Aid Board’s annual conference has heard. This year’s event, titled ‘Change is coming - Reform of

A woman who applied for trainee solicitor posts in Dublin has lost her complaints against firms which she said had discriminated against her on grounds of gender, age and civil status. The woman brought claims against multiple Irish law firms, complaining, inter alia, that males are preferred over f

Cork firm JW O'Donovan Solicitors has announced the appointment of Ciara Lehane as a litigation solicitor.

Expanding the scope of legal aid is a better way of increasing access to justice than promoting greater uptake of legal expenses insurance, the chair of the Bar Council of Northern Ireland has said. Bar Chair Sarah Ramsey spoke at the launch of a new report on legal expenses insurance and access to

Nearly one in two people released from Irish prisons in 2012 were convicted of another offence within three years, according to new figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO). The rate of recidivism for prisoners released during 2012 was 45.8 per cent, down from 48.9 per cent in 2011 and conti

A bill introducing a new offence of coercive control in Northern Ireland which automatically fell after the prorogation of Parliament will now continue to be considered by MPs. The UK Government's Domestic Abuse Bill was one of a number of pieces of proposed legislation which automatically fell foll

Professor Conor Gearty, professor of human rights law at LSE Department of Law, offers his initial thoughts on the historic Miller/Cherry judgment. In March 1954, that distinguished forerunner of today’s politics, senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin, was directly challenged by the famed American

The Ombudsman, Peter Tyndall, has called for his remit to be extended to include how asylum applications are assessed by the Minister for Justice. Mr Tyndall appeared before the Oireachtas joint committee on justice and equality this morning to discuss the Direct Provision system.

A woman who was unlawfully dismissed because of her pregnancy has been awarded nearly £28,000 in compensation. Laura Gruzdaite, 26, brought a case against McGrane Nurseries Ltd in Co Armagh to the Industrial Tribunal with support from the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland.