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Justice Secretary David Gauke has announced proposals for all refurbished and new magistrates' and Crown Court buildings to have separate entrances for complainants and defendants, while court staff will be told to use a "more compassionate" tone with complainants, to indicate their empathy. The pla

Irish revolutionary Roger Casement, the ‘father of 20th-century human rights investigations’, was knighted in 1911 for his investigations into human rights abuses in the Congo and Peru while he worked a British Consul.

The headteacher of a kindergarten has been fired for welcoming children back for the new term with a performance by a pole dancer. Videos on social media showed a dancer in hot pants performing her routine on the pole to loud music as children in marching band uniforms look on, stunned.

Reddy Charlton has announced the promotion of Laura Graham to partner in the firm's employment and regulatory department. Ms Graham joined the firm in 2007 and qualified as a solicitor in 2010.

Belfast firm MKB Law has welcomed William Muir and Conor McCann as trainee solicitors for 2018.

The Law Society of Ireland has announced a new partnership with the Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) to create a first-of-its-kind professorship in intellectual property law and copyright. The new IMRO Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Copyright will be a part-time position within the

The High Court in Belfast has held its first hearing to consider the legality of a search and arrest operation targeting Northern Ireland journalists Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney. The legal challenge is being taken by Fine Point Films, the filmmakers behind No Stone Unturned, a recent documenta

A new study by the Central Bank of Ireland has suggested the Irish legal system is to blame for the persistence of long-term mortgage arrears a decade after the financial crisis. The Long-Term Mortgage Arrears in Ireland report by Terry O'Malley compares repossession proceedings in Ireland to other

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken Kapil Summan, assistant editor of our sister publication Scottish Legal News, reflects on the presumption of innocence in one of the best legal books of modern times.

The judge presiding over the inquest into the Ballymurphy massacre has hit out at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for delays in disclosure of documents. Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan told a preliminary hearing in the High Court yesterday that she would not allow "checking and filtering" of documents to s

Antrim & Newtownabbey Council has abandoned its "English-only" street signs policy following a legal challenge brought by KRW Law on behalf of a local resident. A representative of the council told the High Court yesterday that it has withdrawn its policy, by which any language other than Englis

A&L Goodbody has been announced as the official sponsor of the world première production of the stage musical version of popular movie Good Vibrations.

The UK government is facing a legal challenge from Reprieve over its use of a law that can be deployed to authorise the involvement of British intelligence officers in torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. Section 7 of the Intelligence Services Act 1994 allows ministers to permit UK pe

Around 2,000 executives of companies which failed are due compensation payments and bigger pensions following a judgment of the European Court of Justice on the UK pensions lifeboat, The Times reports. The court ruled yesterday that the cap restricting pension payments to members of schemes rescued

Spain's first trial over a scandal in which babies were allegedly stolen from their mothers during the Franco era has resumed in a Madrid court, decades after the practice occurred, The Local reports. Eduardo Vela, 85, a former gynaecologist at a clinic in Madrid, is accused of having taken Ines Mad