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Former William Fry partner June O'Connell is spearheading plans to open a new craft gin and pot still whiskey distillery in Co Kerry. Ms O'Connell joined William Fry in 1997 and was appointed as a partner in the corporate department in 2002, specialising in M&A and investment work.

Multinational company Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay $572 million (around €515 million) in connection with an opioid addiction crisis in the US state of Oklahoma. A case was brought against the pharmaceutical company by Mike Hunter, Attorney General of Oklahoma, under the state's

Poachers who broke into a popular game reserve to hunt rhinos are believed to have been killed and eaten by lions. The owner of Sibya Game Reserve in Kenton-on-Sea, a coastal town in South Africa, said very little of the men could be recovered, Newsweek reports.

The new Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) has blamed a Government department for the delay in rolling out its new complaints system, according to reports. The LSRA has said the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform did not approve the hiring of critical staff in time for roll-out this

The second Special Criminal Court, which was set up in 2016 to tackle a backlog of terrorism and organised crime cases, is set to be wound down. The operation of the second non-jury court will be suspended at the start of 2020, The Irish Times reports, owing to a decline in case numbers.

Landmark legislation on corruption which was brought into force last year does not meet the requirements of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, the Department of Justice has admitted. The Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Act 2018, which was commenced last July, repealed and replaced seven previo

An Garda Síochána has yet to address concerns raised last year over its recording of hate crimes, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) has warned. A CSO report in December 2018 suggested that at least 27 per cent of hate crimes were not correctly logged in the PULSE database in 2017.

A new report on domestic abuse in the Irish criminal justice system is set to be launched by Women's Aid Ireland next month. The Unheard and Uncounted: Women, Domestic Abuse and the Irish Criminal Justice System report will be launched on Thursday 26 September following a seminar at the charity's Du

UK government officials have cast doubt on plans to abruptly end European free movement in the event of a no-deal Brexit. According to reports, Home Secretary Priti Patel wants to impose new border controls immediately after the UK leaves the EU if no agreement can be reached by the 31 October deadl

Barrister John Temple examines the appeals process for those who have been denied their Leaving Cert results. Some 59,000 students received their leaving certificate results last week. For those who have studied for months and prepared through exhausting long hours for any examination, there is at l

A full obituary of Mr Justice Richard Johnson, who passed away earlier this month at the age of 81, has been published by The Irish Times. He served as president of the High Court from November 2006 until October 2009, when he was succeeded by Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns.

Nasa is investigating what is thought to be the first ever allegation of a crime committed in space.

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been treated for a cancerous tumour. The 86-year-old judge "tolerated treatment well" and the tumour has been "treated definitively", the court said in a statement.

Abusive postcards sent to the president of the Supreme Court of Poland last year were allegedly masterminded by judicial colleagues who supported the country's controversial judicial reforms. Polish web portal Onet.pl has published screenshots alleged to be from a WhatsApp group in which judges disc

Police have seized thousands of orange ecstasy tablets shaped like US President Donald Trump's head since his inauguration two years ago. The front of the bright orange tablets show the president's head with puckered lips, while the words "Great Again" are printed on the back.