Mary Carolan

Mary Carolan

Mary Carolan is the Legal Affairs Correspondent of the Irish Times

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

Court users face further disruption after criminal solicitors escalate action

Criminal defence solicitors to escalate services withdrawal from Monday

Urban and more affluent areas have higher proportions of migrants, study finds

Research shows 78% of those not born on island of Ireland live in urban settings

Review of Legal Services Regulatory Authority to follow its first decade of operation

Attorney General Rossa Fanning notes ‘limited’ take-up of solicitor-barrister partnerships since 2024 introduction

Judge again urges O’Callaghan and solicitors to resolve legal aid case between them

Situation will continue unless Minister for Justice agrees to engagement, lawyers say

Disabled Ukrainian woman in hotel accommodation loses appeal over loss of welfare benefits

Supreme Court rejects claim that law excluding temporary protection applicants in State accommodation from benefits is unconstitutional

‘The monster that haunts our nightmares’: Child victims of Parnell Square attack tell parents of trauma

Mother whose daughter suffered a head injury described Riad Bouchaker as a ‘monster’ who ‘haunts our nightmares’

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