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Decisions about the free movement of EU workers in Northern Ireland should be devolved to the Northern Ireland Executive, according to an influential House of Lords committee. The Lords EU committee has published a report calling for the UK and Irish governments to negotiate a draft bilateral agreem

Gavin Woods Gavin Woods, partner at Arthur Cox, has been elected as president of Arbitration Ireland at the association's AGM.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has welcomed a new European anti-terrorism directive at a meeting with EU justice and home affairs ministers in Brussels.

Ryanair will argue in an English court that claims for compensation over flight delays can only be made against Ryanair in the Irish courts. In April, lawyers for the Dublin-based firm will tell Liverpool County Court that its terms and conditions clearly state disputes must be settled in the Irish

The Law Society of Northern Ireland welcomed Judge Elizabeth McCaffrey and CCBE representative Michael Robinson at an event hosted to mark European Lawyers Day 2016. Judge McCaffrey was appointed as a county court judge in Northern Ireland in September.

Pictured (l-r): Máirtín Ó Muilleoir and Paul Givan Northern Ireland's Communities Minister Paul Givan has launched a consultation on the legislative changes needed to ensure housing associations remain as independent social enterprises.

Pictured (l-r): Krishnan Guru-Murthy with A&L Goodbody's Paul White and Eithne FitzGerald, and Giovanni Amodeo of Mergermarket A&L Goodbody has been named Ireland M&A Legal Advisor of the Year at the Mergermarket European M&A Awards in London.

The key to Oscar Wilde's jail cell is set to be auctioned off in London tomorrow. The key is believed to have been used to unlock the Reading gaol cell occupied by Wilde between 1895-1897 following his conviction for sodomy and gross indecency.

The Court of Appeal has quashed the eleven-year sentence given to a man convicted of raping a young woman in her bedroom Cork, and resentenced the man to eight years’ imprisonment with the final three years suspended upon conditions. Delivering the judgment of the three-judge Court, Mr Justice Edw

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald met EU justice ministers in Brussels yesterday to discuss issues including online hate speech, e-evidence and encryption.

Cork solicitor Frank Buttimer remains Ireland's top-earning free criminal legal aid solicitor, the Department of Justice has confirmed. Mr Buttimer earned €548,449 in 2015, down from €709,668 in 2014. He was the only legal aid solicitor to earn more than half a million euros.

Justice Minister Claire Sugden Northern Ireland's Justice Minister Claire Sugden has announced a new victim's levy for road traffic offenders.

Brendan McGuigan, chief inspector of criminal justice in Northern Ireland An independent inspection of arrangements in place to support legacy inquests in Northern Ireland has found PSNI existing processes to be complex, convoluted and contributing to delay.

Samuel Dickey House sales in Northern Ireland rose last month at the fastest level in two years.

A former solicitor who admitted stealing €260,000 from her clients because she was €6.5 million in debt has been jailed for a year. Jacqueline Durcan, 47, pleaded guilty in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to one count of stealing €260,000 between February 21, 2008 and January 27, 2011.