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More than 10,000 people living in Great Britain and Northern Ireland have applied for an Irish passport every month this year so far, new figures show. A total of 85,517 passport applications were received in the year to 31 August 2019, including 36,274 from Great Britain and 49,243 from Northern Ir

The former head of a global law firm has been jailed for a month after paying to rig his daughter's college entrance exam. Gordon Caplan, 53, who resigned as co-chairman of Willkie, Farr and Gallagher after his arrest, is the latest parent convicted in the college admissions bribery scandal sweeping

A number of former judges have condemned the suggestion endorsed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson that judicial candidates be vetted by Parliament in a US-style process. The suggestion in the House of Commons last week by the Attorney General Geoffrey Cox QC that “there may very well need to be

A round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Northern Ireland abortion law found to breach human rights | BBC News

A motorist who was fined and given six penalty points after being convicted of driving without insurance and who claimed there were “special reasons” for her licence not being endorsed has had her appeal dismissed. The complainer, who failed to appear in court on six occasions to argue h

The Aberdeen Law Project has announced the launch of its new talk-show on Station House Media Unit's (SHMU) radio station. SHMU, a charity which uses media to spread a positive message about Aberdeen’s regeneration areas, will host the first episode of the talk show on 29 October.

Denial of the holocaust is not a human right, the European Court of Human Rights has unanimously ruled. A neo-Nazi politician, Udo Pastörs, who had been convicted in his native Germany after denying the Holocaust in a speech, made a complaint under article 10: freedom of expression.

The Supreme Court is offering school pupils the opportunity to have a live question and answer session with a justice from their own classroom. Applications for the Ask a Justice programme will close on the 15th November 2019 and the successful candidates will be contacted in December.

Law Society of Scotland president, John Mulholland and chief executive, Lorna Jack, welcomed Scotland's newest solicitors to the profession while Sheriff Principal Marysia Lewis was the guest speaker at the ceremony.

The widow of a barrister who died on safari with his daughter will have her case heard in an English court despite the law of Egypt being applicable. Lady Brownlie is to sue the Egyptian branch of the Four Seasons hotel chain over the death of Sir Ian Brownlie QC, The Times reports.

Proposed legislation should avoid forcing parties to attend mediation information sessions, writes Malcolm Gunnyeon. As litigants increasingly look for quicker and more cost-effective alternatives to the courts, mediation has become well known as a means of resolving disputes.

A Thai judge is recovering after shooting himself in an apparent suicide bid at the end of court proceedings in which he sharply criticised alleged interference with the judiciary. Judge Khanakorn Pianchana, 49, a senior judge at Yala Provincial Court in the south of Thailand, pulled out a pistol an

The UK and the US have signed a bilateral agreement allowing their respective law enforcement agencies to directly demand electronic data relating to serious crime from tech companies in the other jurisdiction. The world-first UK-US Bilateral Data Access Agreement was signed by Home Secretary Priti

The campaigners in the Court of Session case against Prime Minister Boris Johnson have had their petition refused by Lord Pentland in the Outer House. Dale Vince OBE, Jolyon Maugham QC and Joanna Cherry QC MP had sought to force Mr Johnson to extend Article 50 TEU if he cannot get a Brexit deal pass

A young man who says he overslept and missed jury duty was sent to jail for 10 days by a furious judge. Deandre Somerville, 21, was summoned to his own court hearing after failing to show up for the civil trial where he was supposed to be a juror.