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Alexander Ward, president of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association Lawyers from across the Commonwealth will come together this March to discuss legal issues in a globalised world at the Commonwealth Lawyers Association's (CLA) 20th biennial conference.

A man remanded into custody as a result of breaking the conditions of his suspended sentence has lost a constitutional challenge to his sentence in the Court of Appeal. The man had argued that since subsections 99 (9) and (10) of the Criminal Justice Act 2006 had been declared unconstitutional in Mo

Minister of State Dara Murphy The Department of Justice is examining the impact of a High Court ruling in which a bank's application for summary judgment against a farmer and his wife was refused due to EU rules on unfair contracts.

Willie O'Dea Opposition party Fianna Fáil will propose legislative measures to prevent solvent businesses winding up defined benefit pension plans, the Irish Independent reports.

Sir Gerald Howarth, MP for Aldershot The Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland (PPS) has firmly rejected accusations of bias made by a Conservative MP.

The Courts Service of Ireland is now hand-delivering letters to addresses in Limerick where repossession orders are to be made, the Irish Independent reports. Eight letters have reportedly been hand-delivered in Limerick by an appointed messenger since the start of the year.

Pictured (l-r): Brian Dolaghan, Invest NI; Alan Hunter, Law Society Chief Executive; Brian Speers, DRS Chair; Anne Beggs, Invest NI; Colum Eastwood MLA; and Michael Bready, Mediator/Barrister The mediation service administered by the Law Society of Northern Ireland has received accreditation from th

Judith Allen TLT has appointed Judith Allen as a real estate partner. She will be working from the firm's Belfast office.

A disabled man who was unable to board a bus because a mother with a buggy refused to vacate the space has had his appeal unanimously allowed, albeit to a limited extent, by judges in the UK Supreme Court. The appeal concerns the lawfulness of a bus company’s policy in relation to the use of the s

A man who broke into a house and murdered a couple and their son before raping their daughter suffered no violation of his article 3 right – prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment – judges in the European Court of Human Rights have ruled by 14 votes to 3. The case concerned a complaint by

President Barack Obama Chelsea Manning, the US soldier jailed for leaking classified information to WikiLeaks, will be released this May.

Facebook has succeeded in its appeal against an award of £20,000 in compensation, which the High Court held it was liable to pay to a convicted sex offender for misuse of private information. In finding that Facebook could only be held liable for a limited 10-day period in which information about t

Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire The Northern Ireland Assembly is set to be dissolved from Thursday 26 January ahead of an early election on Thursday 2 March.

Freda Grealy More Irish law schools are signing up for the Law Society of Ireland's successful Street Law programme, the Irish Examiner reports.

The lifetime ban on blood donation by men who have sex with men (MSM) was lifted yesterday. Under the new rules, a man who last had sex with another man more than 12 months ago will now be able to donate blood if he meets the other blood donor selection criteria.