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
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
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
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
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
Judge warns ‘alarm bells’ ringing over vacancies on new appeals courtMr Justice Nicholas Kearns ‘deeply worried’ about impact on High CourtMon Apr 07 2014 - 01:00
Anglo trial told that personal bank loans normally at 100% recourseFormer Ulster Bank director says it ‘struck’ him that Maple 10 loans were at 25% recourseWed Apr 02 2014 - 01:01
Former Anglo secretary unaware of Quinn transaction until completionNatasha Mercer recalls directors’ discussion of plan to ‘dribble’ Anglo shares into marketSat Mar 29 2014 - 01:00
Moves to limit legal fallout over Garda recordingsEnda Kenny says Garda taping revelations may affect tribunals as well as court casesFri Mar 28 2014 - 13:16
Garda recordings stored centrally on Dublin serverSpecial Criminal Court rules IRA membership trial can proceedFri Mar 28 2014 - 01:00
IRA membership trial to proceed after bugging querySenior garda tells court phone lines at two Garda stations not linked to recording systemThu Mar 27 2014 - 15:44
Attorney General did not brief Cabinet on taping as information was ‘tentative’Minister for Justice confirms Máire Whelan learned of practice last NovemberThu Mar 27 2014 - 01:00
Awkward questions piling up for the State’s most powerful institutionsCommission of investigation’s remit will be decisiveWed Mar 26 2014 - 15:25
