The woman facing €50k legal costs over €16.5k claim: Legal aid row highlights issues in other Irish courts
Law professor says new flat-payment model could incentivise guilty pleas, while a High Court judge has previously criticised State’s ‘fundamentally incoherent’ approach to justice
Solicitor ordered to refund client €11,000 after excessive costs complaint upheld
Regulator says there should be ‘a rationale’ for legal costs and ‘no surprises’
Minister and Law Society agree on ‘focused’ engagement aimed at resolving legal aid row
Dispute over new legal aid payment model has seriously disrupted the criminal courts
Minister for Justice to meet Law Society over legal aid row amid ongoing court disruption
Meeting is first face-to-face encounter between sides since late July
Boomtown Rats among Irish artists hit by ‘egregious’ breach of royalty rights, court told
Just €2.9m of about €13.8m collected in fees returned to performers, artists’ group says
Wariness grows in legal aid row after week of bitter recriminations
Solicitors and Minister for Justice face criticism as positions become entrenched ahead of Law Society meeting with Jim O’Callaghan
Law Society seeks to meet O’Callaghan ‘in person’ to solve legal aid payments impasse
Minister for Justice offers talks to hear Law Society’s viewpoint as four-month withdrawal of services escalates
The criminal courts are operating, but not ‘effectively’, as Jim O’Callaghan claims
Minister has offered to meet solicitors as legal aid dispute sees case backlogs rise
Jim O’Callaghan reiterates claim that solicitors are targeting rape cases
Minister faces backlash for saying rape trials were only cases ‘deliberately’ targeted by striking solicitors
Rape trials only cases ‘deliberately’ targeted by striking solicitors, Jim O’Callaghan to tell Oireachtas
Criminal defence solicitor Michael Finucane rejects suggestion rape or any specific cases targeted
Judge ‘coerced’ into adjourning six rape and sexual offences trials as solicitors withdraw
Defence solicitors warned by judges they need court permission to cease representing people in custody
Huge rise in claims of unlawful detention linked to withdrawal of solicitors’ services
Almost 90 challenges mounted since July at costs ranging from €20,000 to over €40,000 per case
‘They are ashamed to come forward’: Men experiencing domestic abuse reluctant to get help, says charity
Men’s Aid Ireland reports more calls about encouragement to suicide by partners
Mother alleges adult son threatened ‘to burn the house down and kill me’
Woman among several parents seeking barring orders against adult children with substance abuse problems
Laois solicitor used client cash to fund Forest Fest music event, court hears
Deficit in client funds rose from €450,000 to €1.13m between June and August of this year, says Law Society investigator