The British Government has announced plans to build four new prisons with 6,400 spaces over the next seven years. Justice secretary Shabana Mahmood told the BBC, however, that the system could still ...

Judicial-review provisions contained in new planning legislation are not as radical as initial reaction to the bill suggested, lawyers gathered at Blackhall Place have heard. A conference at the Law ...

Lawyers for Marian Price say that she has begun formal legal proceedings against Disney for its streaming service’s series Say Nothing. Say Nothing is a 2024 historical drama series published by ...

Figures from the main banks show that mortgage activity grew again in October compared with the same month last year. Banking Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI) said that banks approved 4,829 ...

Over one-quarter (27%) of offenders who received a probation order in 2020 re-offended within a year, CSO data shows. This is a rise of two percentage points when compared with the equivalent rate for ...

The Department of Justice says that a record number of people are set to be granted Irish citizenship this year. It says that more than 30,000 decisions on citizenship have been made so far this year ...

Lawyers at McCann FitzGerald have highlighted what they describe as “very significant” new restrictions on non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) under new legislation. The changes follow the recent ...

A study commissioned by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) has found that many disabled people face “barrier layered upon barrier” in trying to access their legal rights. Carried ...

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has said that there are “good policy reasons” why the public does not get access to the evidence and reasoning underlining the office’s decisions not to ...

Barrister and campaigner Laoise de Brún BL will stand for the Trinity panel in the upcoming Seanad elections. Founder of The Countess, de Brún pledges to be a “fearless, independent voice”. This will ...

Most parts of a new law that gives regulators more powers to encourage and enforce compliance with company law have come into effect today (3 December). The act will also allow companies to hold ...

The number of applications for leave to appeal filed in the Supreme Court last year rose by 10% to 160, its annual report shows. The 160 applications determined by the court represented an increase of ...