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Northern Ireland's legal aid spend has come under criticism from MLAs, who say little progress has been made in reducing costs. The Northern Ireland Assembly's public accounts committee (PAC) has published a new report into Managing Legal Aid, following up on a 2011 report.

The European Commission has proposed legislation to bring rules for all electronic communication providers in line with the ePrivacy Directive and the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). A key proposal in the Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications extends privacy rules to ne

A delegation of TDs led by Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl visited Ibrahim Halawa in prison in Cairo yesterday. Mr Halawa, 21, is being prosecuted in a mass trial for allegedly participating in a political protest.

Justice Minister Claire Sugden Ronnie Armour will lead the Reducing Offending Directorate from February, Northern Ireland's Department of Justice has announced.

Jeremy Wright QC, Attorney General for England and Wales Jeremy Wright QC, Attorney General for England and Wales, will set out the legal basis for pre-emptive military strikes against overseas terror targets in a speech tonight.

Martha Spurrier, director of Liberty Liberty is launching a legal challenge to the UK's Investigatory Powers Act – legislation that allows the state to monitor everybody’s web history and email, text and phone records, and hack computers, phones and tablets on an industrial scale.

Kate McCusker Kate McCusker, associate solicitor at Cleaver Fulton Rankin Solicitors in Belfast, examines how businesses should respond to a visit from environmental inspectors.

A man indicted in Florida for first degree murder and attempted robbery with a firearm whom the US authorities have been seeking to extradite since 2003 has made a second, article 3, application to the European Court of Human Rights complaining that a first-degree murder conviction in the US carries

Natalie McGuinness Mason Hayes & Curran (MHC) has been shortlisted in Best Community Engagement at the Managing Partners' Forum (MPF) Awards for Management Excellence 2017.

A restaurant has been unsuccessful in its bid to overturn determinations of the Rights Commissioner and the Employment Appeals Tribunal, which had awarded a former employee €26,000 for breaches of the Unfair Dismissals Acts 1977-1993. Dismissing the application for Judicial Review in the High Cour

Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness Northern Ireland is heading for fresh elections following the resignation yesterday of deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.

Minister of State Eoghan Murphy The Government should establish a new commission of inquiry into personal injury claims, a working group has recommended.

Fíona Ní Chinnéide The number of Irish prisoners who have been hospitalised as a result of assaults, self-harm and drug incidents - particularly at Mountjoy Prison - is "shocking", the Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) has said.

Emily Logan, IHREC's chief commissioner The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) can appear as an amicus curiae in four cases involving conditions at Oberstown Detention Centre, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

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