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 9 2014 - 01:00
Barristers fined €50,000 last yearOne member of law library was advised by tribunal ‘as to future conduct’Mon Jun 9 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 4 2014 - 14:10
McAreavey investigation has ‘ground to a halt’, say families27-year-old killed while on honeymoon in Mauritius in January 2011Tue Jun 3 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 3 2014 - 06:44
European Commission urges Dublin to enact contentious legal reform Bill in fullDepartment preparing changes to legislationTue Jun 3 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 2 2014 - 01:04
White-collar crime reports going unread amid ‘endemic’ lack of resourcesConference hears of ‘national scandal’ in specialist investigative bodiesMon Jun 2 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 2 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 8 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 7 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 5 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 5 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 2 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
Eye-opening insights into regulator’s role – and lack of curiosityPatrick Neary gave impression of being a deferential financial regulatorFri Apr 18 2014 - 08:24
Anglo trial : Legal advice as an issue in the caseJudge told jury that such advice on transaction was irrelevant to guilt or innocenceFri Apr 18 2014 - 08:19
Project Maple: Anatomy of a dealThe events that led to three men appearing in the dockFri Apr 18 2014 - 08:16
Recourse was key difference between Maple 10 and Quinn family loansDifference may explain why jury found Whelan and McAteer guiltyFri Apr 18 2014 - 08:12
Former Anglo Irish directors face up to five years in jailWilliam McAteer and Pat Whelan provided unlawful loans to ‘Maple 10’Fri Apr 18 2014 - 06:27
Judge a former garda noted for swift, informed decisionsJudge Martin Nolan asked telling questions of witnesses that went to the heart of the caseFri Apr 18 2014 - 01:00
Seán FitzPatrick acquittal: defence rested on his hands-off role at AngloCourt heard no evidence former Anglo chairman was aware of lending to Quinn familyThu Apr 17 2014 - 08:48
Jury finds Seán FitzPatrick not guilty on all countsJury still considering case against two other former Anglo Irish Bank executivesThu Apr 17 2014 - 01:00
Seán FitzPatrick’s barrister who successfully masterminded an effective defenceMichael O’Higgins is a former journalist and award-winning short-story writerThu Apr 17 2014 - 01:00
State introduced ’new case’ during trial, jury toldTrial of three former Anglo Irish Bank directors is told prosecutors lacked proof in relation to chargesSat Apr 12 2014 - 01:40
Anglo jurors told to have ‘moral courage’Judge says three men must not be blamed for events since ‘Lehman Brothers crash’Sat Apr 12 2014 - 01:00
No baying for blood, Anglo jurors warnedDefence barrister Brendan Grehan SC says trial was not about “seeing three men in the dock as a way of getting vengeance”Fri Apr 11 2014 - 06:19
Case against former Anglo directors not about ‘vengeance’Pat Whelan’s counsel says trial ‘distinct and separate’ from collapse of banksFri Apr 11 2014 - 01:00