Lawyers' Safety And Wellbeing

A man who admitted attempting to carry a knife into the Criminal Courts of Justice complex in order to attack a man who was looking for bail has been jailed for two years. Sam Maughan, 24, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possessing a Stanley blade intending to incapacitate a perso

A new convention on the profession of the lawyer has been proposed by the Council of Europe amid rising attacks on practitioners around the world. Every day, lawyers are harassed, threatened, prosecuted, imprisoned or even murdered, simply for carrying out their professional activities. In recent ye

A majority of Irish barristers have experienced aggression, threats or violence in the course of their work, according to a new survey. The Bar of Ireland surveyed 460 barristers last month in the wake of an incident in December which saw a man allegedly pull out a fake gun and hoax bomb during a fa