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A new book providing an accessible analysis of the Irish child law system has been published by Clarus Press. Child Law in Ireland, authored by Dr Lydia Bracken, lecturer at University of Limerick School of Law, is now available for order.

A charity supporting offenders in Northern Ireland has said figures showing only two anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) were handed out in a year with nearly 60,000 anti-social behaviour incidents highlight their ineffectiveness. The Northern Ireland Association for the Care and Resettlement of Of

KOD Lyons has handed over money to charities Enable Ireland and Pieta House after raising cash through the 175-kilometre Ring of Kerry charity cycle.

Accountancy giant Ernst & Young (EY) has bought a law firm to "reduce costs of routine legal activities" in a move that sees the Big Four further encroach into the legal market. EY announced that it has acquired Riverview Law, with Chris Price, EY global head of alliances – tax becomi

A man racked up over €40,000 in motoring fines in under four hours after racing through the streets in a hired Lamborghini. The man, believed to be a British and in his early 20s, rented the Huracan sports car while holidaying in Dubai, The Times reports.

A pharmaceutical company which was granted a patent now the subject of revocation proceedings in the European Patent Office and in the Irish courts, has had its application for a stay on ‘discovery, the carrying out of experiments or the other interlocutory steps that will require to be taken

A majority of in-house women lawyers in Ireland believe that quotas are necessary to address gender inequalities in the workplace, according to research by Mason Hayes & Curran. When don't knows are excluded, 57 per cent of those surveyed by the firm supported the introduction of quotas to fix t

Northern Ireland's Department of Justice has launched a consultation on extending the Unduly Lenient Sentence (ULS) scheme to money laundering, firearms and terrorist offences. Under the ULS scheme, the Director of Public Prosecutions can, if he considers that a sentence passed in the Crown Court is

A belief in Scottish independence is "protected" under equality laws, an employment tribunal has ruled in a case involving an SNP councillor. Chris McEleny, SNP group leader on Inverclyde Council, brought a case against the Ministry of Defence (MoD), claiming it unfairly targeted him over his stance

Children's Minister Dr Katherine Zappone has said a review commissioned after serious incidents including fires and rioting at Oberstown Children Detention Campus in 2016 will not be published. Child law expert Professor Barry Goldson and former UK parole board chair Professor Nick Hardwick were com

Co Antrim solicitor John Killen McNinch has passed away, the Law Society of Northern Ireland has confirmed. Until his retirement, "Billy" McNinch was the third generation of the McNinch family practising at J.W. McNinch & Son.

It walks like a tablet, but talks like a laptop — the super slick Surface Pro is Microsoft’s answer to the latest iPad, and probably the one after that too.

For a third year running, Northern Ireland lawyers were among thousands of people who took part in the annual Belfast Pride parade on Saturday.

Solicitor Cian O'Carroll, who has represented CervicalCheck scandal victims including Vicky Phelan, has accused the Government of aligning with the labs at the centre of the scandal. Mr O'Carroll told the Irish Independent that the Government was not living up to its pledge to stand with the women a

The Law Society of England and Wales has succeeded in overturning cuts to legal aid payments for document-heavy Crown Court cases. In a strongly-worded judgment, Lord Justice Leggatt and Mrs Justice Carr DBE quashed changes to the Litigators Graduated Fee Scheme (LGFS) introduced in December 2017.