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A 93-year-old former Nazi has gone on trial in Germany over charges he helped kill hundreds of people at the Stutthof concentration camp near the end of the war. Bruno Dey, who was an SS guard as a teenager, appeared in Hamburg youth court yesterday to deliver a prepared statement, The Times reports

A police officer has been slapped with a £600 fine and six penalty points after crashing into traffic lights outside Perth's police headquarters. Mark Chance, 25, pleaded guilty to a charge of careless driving after careering straight into the lights while trying to overtake a bicycling collea

A man who was found guilty of raping his wife has had his custodial sentence increased from three years to five-and-a-half years' imprisonment in the Court of Appeal. Finding that the sentencing judge had not adequately assessed the gravity of the offending conduct, Ms Justice Isobel Kennedy said th

Dublin firm Denis McSweeney Solicitors has announced the promotion of family lawyer Niamh Kennedy to partner. Ms Kennedy, from Portmarnock and now living in Co Dublin, joined the firm 13 years ago and helped to build its family law department after completing the Law Society diploma in family law.

International legal business DWF has appointed two directors, one senior associate, four associates and nine solicitors in Belfast over a year of significant growth.

The Department of Justice has appointed Jacqui Durkin as chief inspector of criminal justice for Northern Ireland. Ms Durkin will assume leadership of Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland (CJINI) at the end of November for an initial three-year term.

An 158-year-old law criminalising abortion in Northern Ireland will be repealed at midnight tonight under a law passed by MPs this summer. Under section 9 of the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Act 2019, sections 58 and 59 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 are repealed in Northern I

Pupils from Carndonagh Community School in Co Donegal have become the first to take part in a video conference with Supreme Court judges under a new initiative aimed at helping young people understand the work of the court.

The Court of Session in Edinburgh has delayed a decision on whether the Prime Minister has complied with a law that compels him to seek a Brexit extension. Boris Johnson sent an unsigned letter to Brussels requesting a delay, accompanied by a signed letter saying he thought that doing so would be a

Dozens of damages claims brought by Irish hauliers against Europe's biggest truck manufacturers who allegedly engaged in anti-competitive practices will most likely be heard in 2020. The claims arise out a determination by the European Commission in 2016 which found that five major truck manufacture

The provision of state-funded counselling and emotional support for rape victims in England and Wales has increased their participation in the criminal justice system, according to a new report published by the Irish Department of Justice. Dr Deirdre Healy, director of the UCD Institute of Criminolo

A move to block the release of a film based on the Panama Papers scandal, involving law firm Mossack Fonseca, has failed. Lawyers for Jurgen Mossack and Ramon Fonseca claimed in a federal court in Connecticut that The Laundromat, which has been released on Netflix, defames them.

School officials have come under fire for making pupils wear cardboard boxes on their heads while they sit exams – in order to stop them from cheating. Children sitting a chemistry paper at Bhagat Pre-University College in the Indian state of Karnataka were made to wear the boxes, with holes i

A 29-year-old man has been sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment for the murder of a 55-year-old man who he described as being “kind to everyone” and someone who would “give you his last penny if he had it”. Considering the appropriate tariff after mitigation to be one of 15 ye

Lawyers in the post-truth era can "enable journalists under attack to fight back and win", according to the senior barrister who helped deliver a court victory for two Northern Ireland journalists. Barry MacDonald QC, part of the legal team for Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey, spoke at the fifth a