Sexual violence: Judges to get specialist training to help them deal with casesPrison visits among other judicial training initiativesMon Sept 02 2024 - 06:24
Dublin residents overturn permission for 299 housing units beside Clonkeen CollegeAn Bord Pleanála had granted approval for the proposed development in south Co DublinSun Sept 01 2024 - 17:00
Disabled mother gets interim barring order against daughter who allegedly assaulted her and stole her moneyFifteen women seek protection or barring orders at Dublin’s domestic violence family courtSun Sept 01 2024 - 06:00
Enoch Burke must pay legal costs of ‘inappropriate’ bid to overturn order to stay away from Co Westmeath schoolNo end in sight to two year dispute over schoolteacher’s suspension from Wilson’s Hospital School in Co WestmeathMon Aug 26 2024 - 19:28
Planned abolition of juries in defamation law reform ‘undemocratic’, says retired judgeClaims in support of abolition of jury cases involve ‘factual and legal dishonesty’ says judge who presided over defamation casesThu Aug 08 2024 - 06:00
Woman gets orders against estranged husband and three sons over alleged threatsWoman says she is dealing with ‘aggressive males who see me as a hindrance’ and that enforced way of life is ‘inhumane’, court toldWed Aug 07 2024 - 06:00
Absence of ‘serious-harm’ test in new defamation law ‘unjustified’, says employers’ bodyISME welcomes some reforms in new Bill but says more ‘material’ reform is requiredTue Aug 06 2024 - 20:40
Refusal to renew Bangladeshi man’s taxi driver licence quashed over breach of personal data rightsSystem under which gardaí accessed information about man’s immigration status involved ‘deliberate’ breach of rights, says judgeTue Aug 06 2024 - 06:00
Woman can buy out ex-husband’s interest in €320,000 family home for €40,800, judge rulesOrder made in High Court divorce case reflects man’s non-payment of child maintenance over yearsMon Aug 05 2024 - 17:32
Gardaí suspect ‘predator’ swim coach Derry O’Rourke abused more victimsFormer Olympic swimming coach jailed for 10 years for raping young swimmer he groomed in 1989Thu Aug 01 2024 - 06:30
Elaine O’Hara may ‘at last, rest in peace’ after Supreme Court rejection of Graham Dwyer’s appealCourt’s earlier ruling on phone metadata admissibility issues was a significant blow to DwyerWed Jul 31 2024 - 19:03
Former swimming coach Derry O’Rourke jailed for 10 years for rape of girlVictim was being coached by O’Rourke in 1980s and 1990s when he sexually abused herWed Jul 31 2024 - 13:23
Graham Dwyer loses final appeal against conviction for murder of Elaine O’HaraMs O’Hara’s father says he is “pleased” and “relieved” that “long journey” is finally overWed Jul 31 2024 - 11:54
Supreme Court to rule on Wednesday on Graham Dwyer’s conviction appealDwyer has been serving a life sentence after being convicted in 2015 for the murder of Elaine O’HaraTue Jul 30 2024 - 17:21
Rape victim tells former swimming coach Derry O’Rourke: ‘You took so much that was not yours to take’O'Rourke to be sentenced on Wednesday for rape and sexual assaults of teenage girlTue Jul 30 2024 - 15:38
Property developer Michael O’Flynn spurned €1 postal order from ex-business partner as debt dispute persistsHigh Court to hear Cork developer’s objection to John O’Driscoll’s personal insolvency arrangementMon Jul 29 2024 - 16:17
‘I cried all the way home’: retired judge recalls ‘heartbreaking’ case of brain-dead pregnant womanThe retired Supreme Court judge looks back on an extraordinary career that included ruling on the difficult case of a pregnant woman on life support, as well as divorcing ‘half of Cork’Sun Jul 28 2024 - 06:00
Tributes paid to George Birmingham on retirement as president of Court of AppealFormer Fine Gael TD and minister of State resumed law career after losing Dublin North Central seat in 1989Fri Jul 26 2024 - 15:58
INM governance scandal: Inspectors report may be published next week Report of six year investigation presented to High Court todayThu Jul 25 2024 - 12:01
Judge finds in favour of Crown Paints in rent dispute over Coolock premisesLandlords argued Crown Paints was required to pay market rent for over four years before leaving premises in 2022Wed Jul 24 2024 - 17:54
Barrister strike: Bar council warns on further action if ‘impasse’ over criminal legal aid fee cuts continuesThird day of industrial action this month adds to delays in criminal courtsWed Jul 24 2024 - 12:13
Courts Service receiving insufficient funding to ensure ‘effective administration of justice’ ‘We do not invest enough in ensuring the courts work for citizens,’ says Green Party TDWed Jul 24 2024 - 06:00
Denis O’Brien, Leslie Buckley and others seek to be given inspectors’ report on INM governance scandalHigh Court judge says his ‘preliminary’ view is in favour of publishing the reportTue Jul 23 2024 - 11:44
Taxi driver jailed for 13 years for raping child ‘could not care less’ about impact on her, judge saysRaymond Shorten (50), from Dublin 22, to be sentenced on Thursday for separate rapes of two young womenMon Jul 22 2024 - 11:04
Final report by inspectors appointed to investigate governance at former INM expected this weekResults of six-year investigation to be put before Mr Justice Peter Kelly of the High CourtMon Jul 22 2024 - 06:00
Settlement made after Croke Park found liable for €24,160 damages over man’s fall in stadiumMan fractured hand after fall on wet concrete surface during 2015 All-Ireland football finalMon Jul 22 2024 - 06:00
Judges say ‘corporate, faceless’ Tusla is failing childrenPrivate firms making money from ‘misery of children’ is ‘distasteful’, says judgeSat Jul 20 2024 - 06:00
Inside the childcare courts: ‘Making money from the misery of children - that’s distasteful’Judges at coalface of State’s care system criticise ‘corporate’ Child and Family Agency and warn against privatisation of careSat Jul 20 2024 - 06:00
Dublin taxi driver to be sentenced on Monday for rapes of seven year old girlRay Shorten also facing sentencing for separate rapes of two young women in his taxi in summer 2022Fri Jul 19 2024 - 10:56
Staff retention a key issue for Ireland’s top law firmsSmaller firms less optimistic than many large firms about their futuresWed Jul 17 2024 - 06:00
More people pursuing careers in law, but concerns about high legal costs persist, says legal services regulatorReport notes concerns that fewer senior barristers are available for criminal casesWed Jul 17 2024 - 00:01
Ms Justice Caroline Costello nominated for appointment as president of the Court of Appeal Court of Appeal presidency is second most senior judicial position in the StateTue Jul 16 2024 - 14:52
Striking criminal barristers demand ‘binding commitment’ over reversal of legal-aid fee cutsCriminal courts’ business is halted for the second time this month after barristers withdraw their servicesMon Jul 15 2024 - 12:30
Report into governance scandal at Independent News & Media to be given to High Court within days Investigation into data breach and other matters could go before court next weekSat Jul 13 2024 - 06:00
Planning law must not frustrate housing objectives, Attorney General tells lawyers Conference told of ‘groundbreaking work’ by new planning court amid 145% increase in planning cases since October 2022Fri Jul 12 2024 - 16:35
Senior counsel Seán Guerin elected Bar council chairmanProfession facing ‘significant’ change along with social, political and economic pressuresWed Jul 10 2024 - 20:16
Retired Supreme Court judge Hugh Geoghegan remembered at funeral Mass as man ‘of boundless curiosity’Judge’s ‘only regret in life’ was that he did not meet his wife sooner, congregation toldWed Jul 10 2024 - 18:07
Two out of three complaints made against lawyers last year alleged misconduct Regulator upheld just 111 of 1,432 complaints finalised in 2023, with half found inadmissibleWed Jul 10 2024 - 00:01
Criminal courts grind to a halt as barristers strike over legal aid feesTwo out of three criminal barristers leave after six years as recession-era pay cuts stay in placeTue Jul 09 2024 - 12:18
Criminal barristers strike: Legal aid earnings range from €27 a day to €773,000 a yearIndustrial action will take place on Tuesday, on July 15th and on July 24thTue Jul 09 2024 - 06:00
Minister accepts compensation proposals for catastrophically injured plaintiffsMinister to introduce regulations aimed at ensuring payments meet lifetime care needsMon Jul 08 2024 - 22:18
Taxi driver Raymond Shorten to be sentenced for rape of seven-year-old girl days after her mother’s funeral Shorten separately facing sentence for rapes of two young women on different dates in 2022Mon Jul 08 2024 - 12:25
Retired Supreme Court judge Hugh Geoghegan dies aged 86 Father of Dublin Lord Mayor James Geoghegan came from family steeped in lawMon Jul 08 2024 - 11:53
Domestic violence sentencing changes adopted Judges have ‘divergent’ approach to sentencing but are motivated to adopt approaches to protect victims, notes reportMon Jul 08 2024 - 06:00
Operation of privacy rule in family law cases to be examined by new independent studyParents with direct experience of family courts asked to take part in anonymous online surveyMon Jul 08 2024 - 00:01
Judges ‘in despair’ over shortage of suitable places for children in careLack of places ‘risks collapsing the care system’, says Child Law ProjectMon Jul 08 2024 - 00:00
Man made death threats, claimed he would throw acid in ex-partner’s face, judge toldMother secures barring orders against two adult sons, in their 30s, who ‘have been drug addicts for years’Sun Jul 07 2024 - 06:00
Judge slams failure by Tusla to notify courts of children in care with no social workerOne child has had no allocated social worker since 2019, judge notesThu Jul 04 2024 - 07:00
Declan O’Callaghan: No end in sight as saga of suspended solicitor continues Law Society awaiting tribunal inquiry into matters surrounding solicitor Declan O’CallaghanTue Jul 02 2024 - 18:41
Solicitor Declan O’Callaghan should be struck off for professional misconduct, tribunal findsFinal decision on fate of Declan O’Callaghan will be made by High CourtTue Jul 02 2024 - 14:24
