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A District Court judge held a "special sitting" in a field in a bid to gain first-hand insight into a dispute over the building of a countryside wall. Judge Patrick Durcan had to borrow a pair of wellies from An Garda Síochána to venture into a field near Kinvara for the "special sitti

The Government's Abhaile scheme to provide free financial and legal advice to mortgage holders is "delivering results", according to new reports. Nearly 11,700 individual borrowers (over 10,000 households) in mortgage arrears have received independent expert Abhaile financial advice and negotiation

Retired judges examining allegedly flawed Garda investigations have asked for more time to conduct their inquires, The Times reports. Patrick Clyne, Patrick McMahon and Donagh McDonagh were appointed in 2017 to consider complaints about three separate Garda investigations.

The law "still has trouble seeing children as real people", the president of the Supreme Court, Lady Hale, has said. The senior judge reflected on the human rights of children and people with mental disabilities as she delivered the Society of Legal Scholars Centenary Lecture 2018 at the University

Spanish airport authorities are searching for the owner of a private jet which has been parked for years. Nobody knows who owns the the McDonnell Douglas MD87 jet, big enough to seat up to 172 passengers, which is sitting in Adolfo Suárez-Madrid Barajas airport.

A construction company that changed the terms of its loan agreements with IBRC, allowing for an expert to estimate the amount of profit to be evenly distributed, has lost its appeal to the Supreme Court. Finding that the agreement entered into in 2011 bound the company to accept the terms of agreeme

Debt cases are no longer to be dealt with by the Master of the High Court following an order by the court's President, The Times reports. Edmund Honohan, whose role is non-judicial, deals with as many as 200 cases a week concerning debt.

One of the paratroopers involved in Bloody Sunday against whom prosecutors were considering bringing charges has died. A solicitor for Soldier N informed prosecutors last week of his death.

Ireland must urgently legislate to deal with technology that allowed people to share images from a fatal road accident on Dublin's M50, the AA's Conor Faughnan has said. A woman in her 30s died yesterday following a crash involving a lorry and three cars at the northbound Finglas exit.

Prosecutors are considering taking action against eight people over fraud allegations in connection with Nama's Northern Ireland property portfolio, the Belfast Telegraph reports. The eight unnamed suspects were investigated by the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) and have now been referred to the P

A Dublin man has received a fully suspended sentence for storing over €64,000 of cannabis at his home to offset a drugs debt. Garda Mark Quill told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that Mark McKenna, 29, made full admissions and co-operated after officers found 3kg of the drug and €150 i

Lawyers from A&L Goodbody attended the OUTLaw Network launch at the National Gallery.

The Iranian authorities carried out a "shameless" campaign of repression during 2018, crushing protests and arresting thousands in a wide-scale crackdown on dissent, said Amnesty International. The organization has today revealed new figures showing the extent of the Iranian authorities’ repre

About three hours before the First Dáil Éireann sat in Mansion House at 3.30pm on the 21 January 1919, the first shots of the Irish War of Independence were fired. Irish Volunteers from the Third Tipperary Brigade had received intelligence before Christmas in 1918 that a large qu

A new app will let people know when they are in the vicinity of debtors. The app, called a "map of deadbeat debtors," flashes when the user is within 500 metres of an indebted person, giving them their precise location.