A woman who may be entitled to her deceased husband’s entire €3 million estate after he died intestate denies she “deserted” him more than 20 years ago and is thus “unworthy” to succeed, the High Court has heard. In her ruling on Monday on a dispute betwe... See more
A distressed woman who alleged her husband hit her in the face, tried to strangle her, threatened several times to kill her and said she “killed the baby” after she suffered miscarriages, got a barring order against him. She was “terrified” to go home aft... See more
A threatened withdrawal of family law solicitors from legal aid services next week has been averted. There were also indications on Friday of a meeting on Monday between Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan and the Law Society in the separate row over a n... See more
The withdrawal of services by some criminal defence solicitors over a new payment model for the District Courts is “not justified”, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said. Martin was speaking on Wednesday as many criminal defence solicitors in Dublin and acros... See more
The criminal courts face a possible total shutdown over two days this week, and three days next week, as the bitter dispute over a new criminal legal aid payments model for the District Courts escalates. About 70 criminal legal aid solicitors, who met on ... See more
