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A man who was identified as having links with the UVF, and as being involved in “punishment attacks” in the Village area of South Belfast, has had his case against the Sunday World dismissed by the Court of Appeal. Agreeing with the trial judge’s finding that the newspaper had satisfied all as

Ken Murphy Investment in the Courts Service will be critical to making Ireland a centre for international dispute resolution after Brexit, the Law Society of Ireland has warned.

Mrs Justice Margaret Heneghan Mrs Justice Margaret Heneghan has unexpectedly resigned from the High Court benches just two years after her appointment.

Vicky Conway Dublin City University (DCU) and Law Society Skillnet are partnering to provide a further round of training to solicitors on how to advise clients detained in Garda custody.

Eugene McCague Eugene McCague, former managing partner and chairman of Arthur Cox, has been appointed as a non-executive director of ICON plc, a global provider of drug development solutions and services.

Dublin solicitor Áine Flynn, formerly of KOD Lyons, has been appointed as the inaugural director of the Decision Support Service (DSS), a new part of the Mental Health Commission. The new service is set to be established under part 9 of the Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Act 2015, which

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has unveiled a new bill revising Ireland's data protection laws and giving effect to recent European court rulings.

The European Commission has referred Ireland to the European Court of Justice for failing to recover €13 billion from Apple which it has judged to be illegal tax benefits under EU state aid rules. The Commission concluded last August that Ireland's tax benefits to Apple allowed the company to pay

Irish citizen Ibrahim Halawa has still yet to be released from prison in Cairo due to paperwork delays, The Irish Times reports. Mr Halawa was acquitted two weeks ago after four years of pre-trial detention and a major international campaign for his release.

A law graduate studying for his PhD at Queen's University Belfast is preparing to sue the uni for disability discrimination, Legal Cheek reports. Christopher Mallon, who was a teaching associate at QUB School of Law until April this year, claims that a "catalogue of failings" led to his alleged cons

The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) will today call for a referendum to abolish the Eighth Amendment and legislation to provide access to publicly-funded abortion, The Irish Times reports. In a significant move, the Commission will reportedly call for abortion to be decriminalised

A shareholder in Conroy Gold and Natural Resources PLC has lost his application for declarations that the appointment of three new directors to the company’s Board were valid. Finding that there was a failure to comply with the notification requirements in the company’s articles of association,

The High Court has asked the European Court of Justice to rule on the validity under EU law of EU-US data transfers by Facebook. The Data Protection Commissioner requested the referral following a complaint by Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems about Facebook’s use of so-called standard contr

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan The legal regulator has submitted a report to Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan on its public consultation on allowing barristers to accept instructions from non-solicitors.

Alyson Kilpatrick The Northern Ireland Policing Board has been unable to renew the appointment of its human rights adviser because of the collapse of devolution, The Irish News reports.