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Mr Justice Séamus Woulfe postponed his planned meeting with Chief Justice Frank Clarke this morning for "personal reasons". The pair were due to meet in the wake of former chief justice Susan Denham's report into Mr Justice Woulfe's attendance at a controversial Oireachtas Golf Society dinner

Reciprocal arrangements allowing for Irish barristers to be called to the bar in Northern Ireland or England and Wales have effectively been put on pause pending a review. Irish barristers are required to produce a "certificate of good standing" in support of their application, which has been provid

The Law Society of Ireland will no longer use "Dear Sirs" as a salutation in formal letters and emails as part of its commitment to gender equality. Writing in her latest bulletin, Law Society president Michele O'Boyle said the Society would "lead the way in discontinuing the use of this outdated gr

Borrowers falling into home mortgage arrears due to an unforeseeable loss of income will gain "vital court protection" under new legislation announced today. Justice Minister Helen McEntee has secured government approval for priority drafting of the "short but urgent" Personal Insolvency (Amendment)

Proposed legislation giving undercover police and MI5 agents explicit permission to commit criminal offences goes "too far" and should be watered down, a former head of the English prosecution service has said. Lord Macdonald of River Glaven, who served as director of public prosecutions from 2003 t

President of the UK Supreme Court, Lord Reed, has said he hopes an ethnic minority justice will be appointed to the UK's highest court before he retires in six years' time. He said the lack of diversity on the Supreme Court bench was a situation "which cannot be allowed to become shameful".

Lord Hodge has been appointed a non-permanent judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal. The jurisdiction's chief executive, Carrie Lam, accepted the recommendation to appoint Lord Hodge, Deputy President of the UK Supreme Court, as a non-permanent judge from another common law jurisdiction.

Corporate law firm A&L Goodbody (ALG) has named social enterprise and wellbeing charity Inspire as its new charity partner in Northern Ireland. ALG, which employs around 120 lawyers and business support professionals in Belfast, will support Inspire through volunteering, pro bono legal advice an

New legislation improving governance and tightening regulation in the greyhound racing sector has come into effect. Agriculture Minister Charlie McConalogue has commenced certain sections of the Greyhound Racing Act 2019, relating to the Welfare of Greyhounds Act 2011 and the Animal Health and Welfa

Judges are to be trained to spot the signs of dementia in defendants amid an increase in the number of citizens finding themselves in court for the first time over petty crimes. Solicitor Mark Hatzer, 53, who is also a deputy district judge, has created a course for judges to aid them in identifying

A prisoner who complained of intolerable pain was found to have four phones lodged in his rectum. The man, imprisoned in the Indian city of Jodhpur in Rajasthan, who had been jailed in a case of an 'unnatural offence', was rushed to hospital, where the discovery was made.

The High Court has dismissed the HSE’s application to set aside an Order renewing a personal injuries summons. Background

Dr Laura Cahillane, lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Limerick, considers the Denham report. The report of the inquiry carried out by former Chief Justice Susan Denham into the conduct of Mr Justice Woulfe in attending the golfgate dinner was published yesterday. The report conclud

Ireland has yet to introduce an effective remedy for people who have suffered from excessively long civil and criminal proceedings nearly two decades after a European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruling. The Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers, which is responsible for supervising the execut

Eugene McCague, former managing partner and chairman of Arthur Cox, has been named by the Alzheimer Society of Ireland as the new chair of its board of directors. Mr McCague, who has served on the board since 2018, retired as a partner with Arthur Cox in 2017, having worked with the firm for more th