The High Court has indicated that it will refer questions concerning the principle of equivalence and the legality of charges ...

High Court judge Mr Justice Adrian Colton has been appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal in Northern Ireland. Lord Justice ...

Israel is obliged to allow aid to flow into the Gaza Strip, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled. The UN's top ...

The Law Society of Northern Ireland is today facing a rebellion from members over a proposed change to the standard of proof ...

Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC has welcomed the European Parliament's decision to award the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought ...

The grandchildren of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK, are calling on ministers to grant her a posthumous ...

A junior minister has admitted the government does not yet know how hundreds of coroner-directed autopsies will be conducted ...

A judge has acquitted 'Soldier F', the former British soldier accused of murder and attempted murder in connection with the ...

A teenage boy whose sex was mistakenly recorded on his birth certificate as female has been told he can only join girls' ...

Three people were wrongly accused of downloading child abuse images after a BT engineer’s wiring error caused police to trace illegal activity to the wrong address, a tribunal has heard. The mix-up, ...

The Court of Appeal has confirmed that the court’s inherent jurisdiction to extend time for seeking leave to bring judicial ...

The legal sector contributes around €6.7 billion to the Irish economy every year, according to an independent analysis by ...