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Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has highlighted continuing improvements in the prison system at his last prison visit of the year.

Kumi Naidoo Kumi Naidoo has been named as the next secretary general of global human rights organisation Amnesty International.

A district judge has lost a case at the Court of Appeal to establish the same rights for judges as “workers”, The Brief reports. Judge Claire Gilham, whose case against the Ministry of Justice failed at the Employment Tribunal and the Employment Appeal Tribunal, has had it dismissed again.

Lord Hodge Justice of the Supreme Court, Lord Hodge, has set out the RFC 2012 judgment in its context within the developing case law on the interpretation of taxing statutes.

Maya Foa, director of Reprieve A human rights organisation has criticised the UK Prime Minister for inviting Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince to the UK as his country continues to repress and execute its own people.

Tech giant Apple is facing a class action lawsuit in the US after admitting some of its phones get slower as they get older by deliberate design. Stefan Bogdanovich and Dakota Speas, law students at University of Southern California, have filed the suit in the Central District Court of California.

Declan McGeown Staff at the Youth Justice Agency have raised a magnificent £23,000 for Action Cancer, their chosen charity for 2017.

Prisoners at Hydebank Wood College have given back over the festive period by selling Christmas crafts in aid of Victim Support NI. Table centrepieces, ceramics and wooden gifts, jams and chutneys, handmade by prisoners at Hydebank Wood College have been sold for a total of £531.

A man who was caught drink driving has had his appeal to the Supreme Court dismissed. In a unanimous judgment from the Court concerning the statutory interpretation of the Road Traffic Act 2010, Ms Justice O’Malley held that while the document relied upon to prove the breath alcohol level should h

Hundreds of struck-out drink driving cases could have gone ahead following a Supreme Court ruling on breath alcohol tests, The Irish Times reports. In a unanimous judgment delivered yesterday, the Supreme Court held that written statements relied on to show a person's breath alcohol level could be a

The Law Society of Ireland has failed in an appeal to avoid paying the new vacant site levy on undeveloped land near its headquarters in Dublin. An Bord Pleanála said the undeveloped site at 32-40 Benburb Street is suitable for housing.

Rhys Jones Johnsons Solicitors has successfully defended jewellery business Argento in an Employment Tribunal case involving a former employee who claimed he was fired for whistleblowing.

The Supreme Court will hear an appeal by the State over a High Court ruling that the Constitution confers significant rights upon the "unborn child" beyond the right to life, The Irish Times reports. It concerns findings made by Mr Justice Richard Humphreys in 2016 as he granted leave to a Nigerian

The High Court in Belfast has ruled that search warrants issued to enter and search the homes and workplace of four former KMPG partners as part of a tax evasion investigation were unlawful. Eamonn Donaghy, Jon D'Arcy, Paul Hollway and Arthur O'Brien applied for a judicial review with regard to the

The staff association for PSNI officers has said the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland (PONI) has "serious questions to answer" over a collapsed criminal case against two officers. A judge in Newry Crown Court "stayed" the case against the officers, who were alleged to have perverted the course