Guidelines seek to help doctors while minimising undue distress to womenWhile the Act is tightly prescriptive on its key aspects, it is silent on some of the detailFri Jul 04 2014 - 01:00
Poor design blamed for GSOC’s lack of ‘oversight’Former senior official says watchdog was ‘precluded’ from effective investigationsThu Jul 03 2014 - 07:17
Court of Appeal Bill passed by CabinetMove paves the way for major shake-up of superior courts systemWed Jul 02 2014 - 01:00
European Court of Human Rights upholds French veil banCase brought by Muslim woman who claimed her religious freedom was violated by lawTue Jul 01 2014 - 12:19
Fitzgerald to 'move swiftly' to speed up asylum claims processIntegration report finds African immigrants more likely to be unemployed and poorMon Jun 30 2014 - 18:02
Senior GSOC official tenders resignationFF TD says Oireachtas justice committee told by Ray Leonard GSOC ‘was not fit for purpose’Mon Jun 30 2014 - 01:02
Fitzgerald to ‘consider’ plans to speed up white collar casesFilling accounting posts ‘critical’ for director of corporate enforcementMon Jun 30 2014 - 01:00
Legal reform Bill being reworked, Fitzgerald tells solicitorsMinister in talks with lawyers’ groups on ‘avoiding any unintended consequences and outcomes’Fri Jun 27 2014 - 11:10
Ombudsman warns surrogacy law could leave children statelessEmily Logan advises Government to clarify plans on commercial surrogacy practicesTue Jun 24 2014 - 19:37
Solicitors criticise plans to close Dublin courtsClosures will result in ‘substantially’ fewer gardaí on normal dutiesTue Jun 24 2014 - 17:52
Judicial appointments board ‘gave discretion back to politicians’Summer school told that process ‘changed dramatically’ in early 2000sMon Jun 23 2014 - 01:00
Court closures threaten ‘fabric of justice system’ - Law SocietyProposals to shut Dublin District Courts being consideredMon Jun 23 2014 - 01:00
High Court facing 4½-year asylum case backlog, conference hearsMore than 1,000 cases waiting to be heardSat Jun 21 2014 - 01:00
High Court ruling opens way to bigger victory for activistsFacebook privacy case: Judge admits gaping hole in US data protectionThu Jun 19 2014 - 10:19
High Court refers Facebook privacy case to EuropePrivacy campaigner took case following claims social network passed information to NSAThu Jun 19 2014 - 01:04
Cabinet chooses High Court judge Peter Charleton for Supreme Court postVacancy created by retirement of Nial FennellyTue Jun 17 2014 - 19:03
Asylum delays causing undue hardship, says rights bodyThorough, independent inquiry into Magdalen laundries ‘still outstanding’Mon Jun 16 2014 - 11:01
Maureen Gaffney: Ireland’s boom and bust ‘was mania combined with anxiety’The psychologist says Irish people’s optimism – our belief that things will work out if we persist – has helped us through the recessionSat Jun 14 2014 - 01:00
Government to choose new Supreme Court judgeVacancy created by retirement of Mr Justice Nial FennellyTue Jun 10 2014 - 01:00
Issues raised by barristers’ report will feed into disciplinary regimeThought should be given to balance between fairness and transparencyMon Jun 09 2014 - 01:00
Barristers fined €50,000 last yearOne member of law library was advised by tribunal ‘as to future conduct’Mon Jun 09 2014 - 01:00
Dublin’s District Courts face ‘root and branch’ changeCourts in Dún Laoghaire, Tallaght, Swords and Balbriggan to close under new proposalsWed Jun 04 2014 - 14:10
McAreavey investigation has ‘ground to a halt’, say families27-year-old killed while on honeymoon in Mauritius in January 2011Tue Jun 03 2014 - 16:25
Solicitors settle medical cases 'for much less than initial demands'Some lawyers ‘implacably opposed’ to mediation says head of state agencyTue Jun 03 2014 - 06:44
European Commission urges Dublin to enact contentious legal reform Bill in fullDepartment preparing changes to legislationTue Jun 03 2014 - 01:02
High Court president urges women to apply for senior judicial postsNew appeals court will be ‘unprecedented in Irish judicial life’Mon Jun 02 2014 - 01:04
White-collar crime reports going unread amid ‘endemic’ lack of resourcesConference hears of ‘national scandal’ in specialist investigative bodiesMon Jun 02 2014 - 01:01
Government to make last-minute changes to contentious legal reform BillTaoiseach signals better co-operation with Bar Council in wake of Shatter’s resignationMon Jun 02 2014 - 01:00
Kenny to outline events leading up to Callinan departureTaoiseach to write to commission of inquiry with his account of events leading up to Garda Commissioner’s retirementSat May 31 2014 - 16:38
Amnesty calls for referendum on economic, social rightsOpponents say moves would involve judges trespassing onto Oireachtas territoryThu May 29 2014 - 17:41
Corbet’s provocation plea failed to convince juryLoss of self-control was the key plank of defendant’s claim of manslaughterSat May 24 2014 - 01:00
Kennedy estate’s copyright would limit a buyer’s room for manoeuvreOwner could not publish the letters in book form without the estate’s consentFri May 23 2014 - 01:00
Parties criticised for not reaching out to migrant groupsAll Polish candidates running as Independents, event toldTue May 20 2014 - 01:02
Solicitor Gerald Kean ‘shocked’ by misconduct findingSolicitor has 21 days in which he may appeal the decisionTue May 20 2014 - 01:00
Solicitors may attend Garda interviewsDirector of Public Prosecutions signals major policy shift over access to solicitorMon May 19 2014 - 01:00
Governments ‘two-faced’ on torture, says Amnesty InternationalHuman rights group has reported on torture in 141 states over five yearsTue May 13 2014 - 10:26
Ambiguous relationship between gardaí and department set for a shake-upMorris tribunal said department took information from gardaí ’on trust’Tue May 13 2014 - 01:00
Dragging the legal sector into the 21st centuryLawyers must prepare to embrace technology, author Richard Susskind tells legal conference in Co ClareMon May 12 2014 - 01:10
Institutions unable or unwilling to investigate their ownPointed criticism of Department of Justice and Garda managementSat May 10 2014 - 06:34
A career shatteredAlan Shatter’s resignation as minister for justice removes a compelling figure from front-line politics. This talented but truculent politician leaves two notable legacies: an impressive legislative record and a severely damaged police forceSat May 10 2014 - 01:00
Alan Shatter: a polarising reformer who leaves a long legacy on the statute booksAnalysis: Former minister for justice Alan Shatter’s social-liberal instincts underpinned key pieces of legislationThu May 08 2014 - 01:01
Half of serious drugs cases result in 5-10 year jail termsValue of drug haul emerges as most important factor in judges’ decisionsWed May 07 2014 - 01:00
Africa and Europe need a stable Libya, seminar toldFormer minister says it is vital for unity to be achieved through national dialogueMon May 05 2014 - 14:47
State ‘turned blind eye’ on rendition to maintain good ties with US, says O’Reilly‘Guardian of public interest’ required for when State acts illegally or despotically, says European OmbudsmanMon May 05 2014 - 01:00
Social media a big challenge for courts, says Chief JusticeRTÉ executive says it faces legal actions from ‘some well-known political figures’Fri May 02 2014 - 01:00
Judge’s excoriating critique of regulator gives trial a remarkable postscriptIf we had laws against incompetence, the trial could have run on in perpetuityWed Apr 30 2014 - 14:21
‘I feel that a State agency led the two men into error and illegality’Judge Martin Nolan rules former Anglo directors Pat Whelan and Willie McAteer won’t go to jailWed Apr 30 2014 - 14:04
Heron’s advice reveals key points of disputeLawyer has no memory of Morgan Stanley conference call on the eve of Maple dealTue Apr 29 2014 - 01:00
Solicitor denies telling Anglo that Maple 10 deal was legalLawyer was not aware money was being loaned to Maple 10 to buy sharesTue Apr 29 2014 - 01:00
A trial, not an errorThe 47-day Anglo Irish Bank trial wasn’t about vengeance for the banking collapse. It was about subtle legal points: the ‘good-faith defence’ and ‘the ordinary course of business’. Some feared such white-collar concepts would be beyond a jury. They were wrongSat Apr 19 2014 - 01:00
