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Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has said he is "engaging with the representative associations" on measures such as equipping gardaí with tasers. He made the comments while unveiling a plaque in memory of Garda Michael Clerkin who was killed by an IRA bomb in 1976, The Irish Times reports.

Legislation allowing craft breweries and distilleries to sell alcohol produced on the premises to tourists and visitors has been brought into effect. Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan signed the commencement order for the Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Act 2018 yesterday afternoon.

A new inquiry to investigate whether changes to legal aid funding have left some victims of discrimination unable to access justice has been launched today by the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Following changes to legal aid in 2012, funding for most discrimination cases can only be accessed

A crackdown on lawyers and activists associated with the campaign against forced wearing of the hijab in Iran intensified over the weekend. Human rights lawyer and women’s rights activist Hoda Amid was arrested at her home on Saturday, a day after the arrests of her fellow lawyers Payam Derafs

A new video published by the BBC invites viewers to take a virtual reality tour through the highest court in the UK.

A man who allegedly ran out on dinner dates with women, leaving them to pay the full bill, is facing up to 13 years in prison. Paul Gonzales, 45, allegedly took financial advantage of at least 10 women he met on dating apps or websites.

A prison officer who sustained a herniated disc in his back in the course of restraining and lifting a prisoner in January 2013, has had his claim dismissed on the grounds that it was statute barred. Granting the State defendants an application to dismiss the claim which was issued by way of plenary

Concerns surrounding the appointment of Garda commissioner Drew Harris have been dismissed by Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan. Mr Flanagan made assurances that the former PSNI deputy chief constable had been vetted, amid criticisms that state security services had been unable to properly do so.

A late disclosure by the Ministry of Defence to an inquest into the Ballymurphy massacre has prompted anger from the families of those killed, the Belfast Telegraph reports. Pádraig Ó Muirigh, solicitor for the families, said that the last minute discovery of a database with details of

New oversight procedures for national security should be introduced following the appointment of former PSNI officer Drew Harris as Garda commissioner, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has said. Mr Harris will be responsible for sensitive matters as well as routine policing and his appoi

A prisoner from Co Down who died in custody has been named as 22-year-old Daniel McConville. Mr McConville, of Mobrief Walk in Lurgan, was due to appear at Craigavon Magistrates Court by video-link on Friday morning, the Belfast Telegraph reports.

The murder of a young woman in 1971 and the men wrongly convicted of killing her is the subject of a new documentary on TG4, the Sunday Independent reports. Close friends Martin Conmey and Dick Donnelly experienced an "unthinkable set of circumstances" when 19-year-old Una Lynskey was killed and Mar

Scottish forensics expert Professor Dame Sue Black has called for the creation of a national database of sex offenders' penises to help tackle sexual crimes. Professor Black said that suspects can be identified by their penises alone and that it is the practice among many to upload such ph

Hundreds of staff in prisons have been caught smuggling drugs, phones and weapons into jails, the Observer reports. A freedom of information request made by the newspaper found that 341 staff across England and Wales had been dismissed, excluded or even convicted or cautioned by police in the past s

An annual gathering of Catholic lawyers has become the subject of a row because of the church's handling of child abuse, The Times reports. Leading figures from Scotland's legal profession gather annually at St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh for the Red Mass, which ushers in the new legal year.