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The life of late barrister-at-law Stephen McCann has been honoured across the legal and political professions following his recent tragic death. The 46-year old criminal law barrister was last night hailed as "a person of great integrity and ability" by Seamus Mallon, NI's former deputy First Minist

Kevin Humphreys Legislation to establish new Family Courts as divisions of Ireland's existing District, Circuit and High Court structures will be introduced before the general election, the Department of Justice has indicated.

Robert Sharp, communications manager at English PEN Unreformed libel laws in Northern Ireland cannot be allowed to "undermine" the reforms introduced by the Defamation Act 2013 in England and Wales, a spokesperson for English PEN has told Irish Legal News.

Pictured (l-r): Ken McDonald, Ann McGregor, Laura Gillespie, and Marian Cree A data security breach is the biggest corporate crisis threat to Northern Ireland businesses, according to a new poll by the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Pinsent Masons.

Over 900 people sought legal aid in relation to asylum claims in 2014, an increase of 27 per cent from the previous year, according to the Legal Aid Board. The figures mirror an increase in the numbers applying for asylum in the State and represent "the first year for some time that there was an inc

Cases against fifteen motorists accused of drink driving were thrown out of Ennis District Court yesterday as a result of the breathalyser legal loophole which led to emergency legislation being introduced in September. Judge Patrick Durcan dismissed the cases as a result of a High Court judgment wh

Lady Hale Lady Hale, deputy president of the UK Supreme Court, spoke about modern developments in the involvement of children in family court proceedings in a recent major address.

The European Court of Human Rights is holding a Grand Chamber hearing today in the case of Ibrahim and Others v. the United Kingdom. The case concerns the temporary delay in providing access to a lawyer during the police questioning of suspects involved in the 21 July 2005 London bombings and the al

The Belfast solicitor who owns a 340-year-old tablecloth that was presented to the Prince of Orange in 1675 has said it belongs in Northern Ireland. Solicitor Sam Wilson told the Belfast News Letter that he turned away the Rikjsmuseum in Amsterdam and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London after b

The High Court in Dublin has found that Dunnes Stores’ application for the judicial review of a retention permission granted by An Bord Pleanála amounted to an ‘abuse of process’, as the primary aim of the application was not to challenge the permission’s legality, but to secure an advantag

Bryan Bourke, managing partner at William Fry San Francisco is set to host the third US office of Dublin-based firm William Fry from early next year, the firm announced today.

A former solicitor who admitted theft, fraud and forgery offences worth a total loss of more than €300,000 has been jailed for four years with two suspended. Judge Sean Ó Donnabháin, sitting in Cork Circuit Court, told Mark Cronin, formerly of Cronin Mungovan Solicitors in Macroom, that it was n

The president of the District Court has hit out at media outlets for carrying "inaccurate, incorrect, unbalanced and incomplete" reports on road traffic cases. The remarks, thought to refer to widespread reports indicating only 40 per cent of drink driving cases before District Court judges led to c

One in three of Ireland's top 20 law firms were the subject of cyber attacks in the last 12 months, according to a major report by Smith & Williamson. The accountancy firm's Survey of Irish Law Firms 2015/16 report found that one in five of all Irish law firms had reported attempted or successfu