Striking criminal barristers demand ‘binding commitment’ over reversal of legal-aid fee cuts
Criminal courts’ business is halted for the second time this month after barristers withdraw their services
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 week
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 2022
Senior counsel Seán Guerin elected Bar council chairman
Profession facing ‘significant’ change along with social, political and economic pressures
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 told
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 inadmissible
Criminal courts grind to a halt as barristers strike over legal aid fees
Two out of three criminal barristers leave after six years as recession-era pay cuts stay in place
Criminal barristers strike: Legal aid earnings range from €27 a day to €773,000 a year
Industrial action will take place on Tuesday, on July 15th and on July 24th
Minister accepts compensation proposals for catastrophically injured plaintiffs
Minister to introduce regulations aimed at ensuring payments meet lifetime care needs
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 2022
Retired Supreme Court judge Hugh Geoghegan dies aged 86
Father of Dublin Lord Mayor James Geoghegan came from family steeped in law
Domestic violence sentencing changes adopted
Judges have ‘divergent’ approach to sentencing but are motivated to adopt approaches to protect victims, notes report
Operation of privacy rule in family law cases to be examined by new independent study
Parents with direct experience of family courts asked to take part in anonymous online survey
Judges ‘in despair’ over shortage of suitable places for children in care
Lack of places ‘risks collapsing the care system’, says Child Law Project
Man made death threats, claimed he would throw acid in ex-partner’s face, judge told
Mother secures barring orders against two adult sons, in their 30s, who ‘have been drug addicts for years’