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Solicitor Niall Fox has opened a new Cavan town centre practice focusing on all areas of contentious work, with an emphasis on criminal defence, personal injury, medical negligence, and family and business disputes. Mr Fox, originally from Co Fermanagh, has practised as a solicitor for over a decade

A fresh inquest is set to be held into the 48 deaths at the infamous 1981 Stardust nightclub fire. The families of the victims, who were mostly from Artane, Kilmore and greater Coolock, submitted an application for a new inquest in April.

A civil liberties group has announced plans to submit a legal complaint over the Public Services Card (PSC) on behalf of more than 1,000 people. Digital Rights Ireland (DRI) said its new #no2psc campaign, launched yesterday, represented the first "mass action" legal campaign in Ireland.

A former judge has said the UK Supreme Court moved the boundaries of the law because of a "particularly disgraceful constitutional abuse" by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Lord Sumption said that the advice given to the UK government in the recent Miller prorogation case was "in line with the orthodo

Nearly 2,000 asylum seekers in Ireland were granted permission to work last year under a new system introduced after a landmark Supreme Court ruling. The new regime for asylum seekers to access the labour market was introduced last June when the absolute prohibition on employment was ruled unconstit

Ulster University academic Professor Cath Collins has led an exchange between a delegation of relatives and pro bono human rights lawyers from Chile and their counterparts in Uruguay. Professor Collins is a professor of transitional justice at the Transitional Justice Institute (TJI), a law-led inte

Belfast firm John McKee has announced a "substantial investment" in a market intelligence data system aimed at helping clients manage risks when making business transactions. The commercial law firm said the "big data" technology would allow the firm to provide real-time market advice, with 60,000 d

A transgender man who gave birth to a child has lost a legal bid to be named as a father on the child's birth certificate. The High Court in London has ruled that Freddy McConnell, who is recognised as "male" on his civil documents, must be recorded as the child's "mother".

Three people have been arrested in Russia's autonomous region of Chechnya on suspicion of "practising sorcery", according to local media reports. In a broadcast on Grozny TV, a local station run by Chechen authorities, two women and one man are accused of "selling their souls to the Devil" by Adam E

Paramilitaries and organised criminals "cannot be allowed to take advantage of Brexit", Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has told a major cross-border conference on organised crime. Representatives of An Garda Síochána, the PSNI, the National Crime Agency, the Revenue Commissioners, H

A chef has launched a lawsuit against the famous Michelin guide after an inspector stripped him of his third star – allegedly because he wrongly assumed his cheese soufflé used cheddar. Marc Veyrat, a celebrity French chef, said the reviewer "insulted our region" after wrongly suggestin

The family justice system in Ireland is "at a crisis point" with reform frustrated by poor facilities, ineffective use of funding and an overly-adversarial approach to cases, the Legal Aid Board’s annual conference has heard. This year’s event, titled ‘Change is coming - Reform of

A woman who applied for trainee solicitor posts in Dublin has lost her complaints against firms which she said had discriminated against her on grounds of gender, age and civil status. The woman brought claims against multiple Irish law firms, complaining, inter alia, that males are preferred over f

Cork firm JW O'Donovan Solicitors has announced the appointment of Ciara Lehane as a litigation solicitor.

Expanding the scope of legal aid is a better way of increasing access to justice than promoting greater uptake of legal expenses insurance, the chair of the Bar Council of Northern Ireland has said. Bar Chair Sarah Ramsey spoke at the launch of a new report on legal expenses insurance and access to