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The use of court houses for benefit appeal hearings in Northern Ireland has delivered reduced waiting times and costs, Justice Minister Naomi Long has said. Although recognising that the matter is "a source of debate", Ms Long defended the practice in response to a written Assembly question from Sin

In this video from Edinburgh Law School's International Legitimacy Interview Series, Dr Cormac Mac Amhlaigh speaks with Professor Samantha Besson of the Collège de France about a posthumous paper of the late Ronald Dworkin.

A judge in South Africa has issued an arrest warrant for the country's former president, Jacob Zuma, after he failed to appear in court for his corruption trial. His lawyers said that Mr Zuma, 77, was ill and seeking treatment abroad.

A large stash of drugs was seized by police after officers checked two bags labelled "bag full of drugs".

A woman who claims that the mortgage on her family home was executed without her knowledge or consent has successfully appealed an order for possession granted to Bank of Ireland Mortgage Bank. Finding that BOI had failed to establish that the woman was indebted to it in circumstances where she made

Former SDLP councillor Máiría Cahill has been granted leave by the High Court in Belfast to challenge the requirement for local election candidates to disclose their home address. Ms Cahill, who is supported in her case by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC), withdrew

Dublin-based AMOSS Solicitors has welcomed one of its interns, Amy Henry, as a trainee solicitor. Ms Henry joined the firm's insurance defence team as an intern in October 2018 and is now advancing her career with the firm.

Writing for Irish Legal News, barrister Andrew McKeown interrogates the insurance industry's narrative about the effect of litigation on insurance premiums in Ireland. With debate raging over so-called "compensation culture", the insurance corporations blame rising premiums solely on lawyers and the

Julie Galbraith, employment partner at Eversheds Sutherland in Dublin, looks at the coronavirus outbreak from the perspective of Irish employers. The spread of the ‘Wuhan coronavirus’ is a global concern with the World Health Organisation now declaring a global emergency and, at the time

Law students at Ulster University bested their opponents from Queen's University Belfast to win the Northern Ireland knock-out round of the ESU-Essex Court Chambers National Mooting Competition. Ben Lowry and Cerys Kennedy led their university to its first victory over QUB in the competition "for mo

Solicitors from Northern Ireland joined colleagues from across Britain and Ireland at a major family law conference at Malaga over the weekend. The Four Jurisdictions Family Law Conference included sessions on the thorny issues facing practitioners involved in child law and financial remedies, led b

The House of Lords' Economic Affairs Committee has launched an inquiry into the economics of Universal Credit. The committee will examine whether the welfare reform is meeting its original objectives and whether the policy assumptions reflected in its design are appropriate for different groups

A round-up of deals involving Irish law firms. Submit your deals to newsdesk@irishlegal.com. Belfast-based Cleaver Fulton Rankin has advised Microsoft on the establishment of its Belfast-based cyber security centre, which will create 85 new jobs.

Police responding to reports of a child calling for help were relieved to find that the screams were coming from a goat. A man in Ottawa called police after hearing what sounded like a child calling for help from a nearby wooded area, CBC reports.

Scottish solicitor advocate Ronald Conway responds from the perspective of a lawyer in the UK to Michael Upton's recent reflections on Brexit. So John Cleese famously asked in The Life of Brian.