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The UK Supreme Court has ruled that all courts and tribunals have an inherent jurisdiction to grant access to court documents in a judgment reaffirming the principle of open justice. Lady Hale, delivering the judgment, urged the bodies responsible for framing the court rules in each part of the UK t

Prominent barrister Remy Farrell SC is giving up criminal law because of low fee rates, according to reports. Mr Farrell is one of a growing number of criminal lawyers who are switching entirely to civil work, The Sunday Times reports.

The impact of savage cuts in civil legal aid since 2012 has been so devastating that the UK’s most senior judge yesterday felt it necessary to broadcast an appeal for a legal charity. “I know how intimidating the civil and family courts can be for people without legal knowledge of help,&

Technology companies have been invited to compete for £250,000 in funding from Nesta Challenges and the Solicitors Regulation Authority for projects which will widen access to legal support for individuals and businesses. The Legal Access Challenge is open to entries from now until 11 August 2

Ofcom has fined the news channel RT £200,000 for serious failures to comply with its broadcasting rules – and required the channel to broadcast a summary of its findings to viewers. The regulator has rules in place requiring broadcast news to be presented with due impartiality and its in

Two women were promptly arrested after complaining to police that a hitman they hired had ripped them off. The 52-year-old woman and her 20-year-old daughter allegedly plotted with the daughter's 29-year-old boyfriend to find and kill the older woman's ex-partner.

A man who claimed that he was a dependant of his brother, who is a naturalised citizen of the UK, has been granted an order of certiorari quashing the decision refusing him a residence card. Finding that the Minister for Justice and Equality had erred in his application of the EC (Free Movement of P

Mason Hayes & Curran has announced the appointment of Oliver FitzGerald as a partner in the firm's real estate team. Mr FitzGerald works with clients on the full range of real estate transactions, including the real estate aspects of banking and corporate deals. He advises international investor

Cork firm CDS Law & Tax has announced the appointment of Ross Jackson as solicitor and Cliodhna Murphy as trainee solicitor. Mr Jackson, who qualified as a solicitor in 2010, joins the corporate and commercial department at CDS, where his areas of expertise include corporate restructuring, corpo

Prison officers carried out covert surveillance which may have broken the law, but did not deliberately monitor private conversations between solicitors and prisoners, a report has found. The Inspector of Prisons, Patricia Gilheaney, was asked by Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan last November to ex

The Court of Appeal has reserved judgment in an appeal based on the "unusual" argument that a dependency on alcohol can diminish a person's responsibility for murder such that juries should be allowed to find them guilty of manslaughter. The “unusual” argument was made in the case of Mic

Proposals to establish Ireland's first medically supervised injection facility (MSIF) for drug users have been rejected by Dublin City Council. The council said the proposed facility would be bad for tourism and the local area, TheJournal.ie reports.

The new Northern Ireland Secretary, Julian Smith, has been urged to introduce legislation to compensate victims of historical institutional abuse. The UK Government recently said legislation to implement the recommendations of Sir Anthony Hart's 2017 report would not be introduced until after the su

A major legal summit in Dublin next week will try to "bridge the gap" between lawyers and technology experts on complex issues including AI and cyber security. Law lecturer Dr David Cowan and barrister Brendan Guildea are organising the Dublin-based part of the World Legal Summit 2019, which will se

Employment law solicitor Richard Grogan of Richard Grogan & Associates writes on a case concerning maternity leave. The case EDA1919, being G4S Secure Solutions (Ireland) Limited and Kelly, is a decision of the Labour Court of 12th June 2019.