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The average daily prison population in Northern Ireland rose slightly to 1,448 during 2018/19, according to new figures. The male population increased to 1,384 and the female population increased to 65, representing an overall increase of 0.6 per cent.

Barrister Jolyon Maugham QC, who has played a key role in Brexit litigation over the past three years, has revealed that he bought a stab vest following threats against his life. Mr Maugham said he was advised by the elected police and crime commissioner in his area to take measures to protect his o

Northern Ireland firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has released a video highlighting the important points raised at its recent event on the future of property development.

Upon merging with the Irish Republican Brotherhood, members of the Phoenix Society were trained in the use of rifles and military tactics by Irish-American officers of the Fenian Brotherhood (Shane Kenna, Jerimiah O’Donovan Rossa: Unrepentant Fenian (Merrion Press, 2015)). This brought Jerimia

A woman has been fined for trespass after she bit the testicles of an irate camel which sat on her when she entered its compound. The unfortunate incident unfolded after Gloria Fraley Lancaster lost control of her dog and chased it into the camel's enclosure.

A lecturer who was subject to sexual harassment by students in her class has been awarded €10,000 in the Labour Court. Finding that Waterford Institute of Technology “did not take such steps as were reasonably practicable to prevent sexual harassment and harassment based on gender”

Solicitor Niall Fox has opened a new Cavan town centre practice focusing on all areas of contentious work, with an emphasis on criminal defence, personal injury, medical negligence, and family and business disputes. Mr Fox, originally from Co Fermanagh, has practised as a solicitor for over a decade

A fresh inquest is set to be held into the 48 deaths at the infamous 1981 Stardust nightclub fire. The families of the victims, who were mostly from Artane, Kilmore and greater Coolock, submitted an application for a new inquest in April.

A civil liberties group has announced plans to submit a legal complaint over the Public Services Card (PSC) on behalf of more than 1,000 people. Digital Rights Ireland (DRI) said its new #no2psc campaign, launched yesterday, represented the first "mass action" legal campaign in Ireland.

A former judge has said the UK Supreme Court moved the boundaries of the law because of a "particularly disgraceful constitutional abuse" by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Lord Sumption said that the advice given to the UK government in the recent Miller prorogation case was "in line with the orthodo

Nearly 2,000 asylum seekers in Ireland were granted permission to work last year under a new system introduced after a landmark Supreme Court ruling. The new regime for asylum seekers to access the labour market was introduced last June when the absolute prohibition on employment was ruled unconstit

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