Bethany Home survivors have called on the Mother and Baby Homes Commission to release the details of additional burials it has found in relation to children who died in the care of the institution.

The State’s “failed” system to provide payments to victims of child sexual abuse in schools needs to be reformed “without delay” as many survivors are elderly, the State’s human rights watchdog has said.

The Mother and Baby Homes Commission is obliged under human rights law to provide information to family members about where their relatives are buried — despite claiming it is legally prohibited from doing so.

The gangland killer of Limerick rugby player, Shane Geoghegan, has failed in his attempt to get Europe’s top human rights court to overturn his conviction for murder.

Soldier amnesty plans pose grave challenges to human rights – and set the stage for a future showdown with the European Court of Human Rights.

A report examining if it is possible to start taking DNA samples from survivors of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home to help identify hundreds of children who died there will be published "in the coming weeks".

Two women who got refugee status here and later became Irish citizens have lost significant test actions over whether they are entitled to enhanced family reunification rights under the Refugee Act.

Two women who got refugee status here and later became Irish citizens have lost significant test actions over whether they are entitled to enhanced family reunification rights under the Refugee Act.

The State uses money to play the courts within an inch of a judge’s patience, writes Michael Clifford

The High Court has ordered the surrender of a Polish man to face trial in his native country despite finding “generalised and systemic” violations to the independence of Poland’s judiciary.

The judge directed bona fide members of the press may attend and report such applications but, before the court sits to hear such cases, they must make themselves known to the court registrar and produce satisfactory identification such as a National Union of Journalists card.

Education Minister Richard Bruton has defended the Government’s interpretation of the European court ruling in the Louise O’Keeffe case following a query from a former High Court judge about a related compensation scheme.

The solicitor for the family of Sophie Toscan du Plantier say they “do not fear” efforts by Ian Bailey to bring a case to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), and also said they hope to hold the trial against him in France before the end of the year.

Education Minister Richard Bruton has sent a response to a former High Court judge’s request for a justification of the Government’s controversial interpretation of a European ruling in the Louise O’Keeffe school sex abuse case.

The High Court has dismissed a challenge by a woman and her five children against Galway County Council’s refusal to provide them with continued emergency accommodation after they turned down a four-bedroom house.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by the State concerning a significant High Court judgment which found the word “unborn” in the Constitution means an unborn “child” with rights beyond the right to life.

Convicted sex offender and legal academic Brian Doolan has launched a High Court challenge over being disciplined by the Arbour Hill Prison authorities for comments posted on his website crticising the victim's support group 'One in Four'.

The High Court has ordered the extradition of a man to Northern Ireland in connection with the alleged murder of prison officer David Black.

The decision by the all-party Oireachtas committee examining Ireland’s abortion law to recommend the repeal of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution in its present form has prompted many people to write to The Irish Examiner on the subject.

A challenge at the UK's highest court over the legality of Northern Ireland's strict abortion law has concluded.

Northern Ireland's criminal law on abortion is a matter for the "democratic judgment" of the legislature, the UK highest court has heard.

Stricter controls and enhanced protection of citizens’ data and communications are set to be announced today with the release of the long-awaited report on the accessing of communication data of journalists.

Latest: Judges in the European Court of Human Rights have rejected a plea from the parents of terminally-ill baby Charlie Gard to intervene in the case.

Media groups have hailed a decision by the European Court of Human Rights which upheld an appeal by Independent Newspapers regarding a record €1.25m libel payout.

Civil rights advocates said the headscarf ban ruling by the European Court of Justice did not appear to “place weight on the importance of freedom of religion”.

Children’s rights campaigners have welcomed a move by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission to try to force a Government rethink on its attitude to compensating victims of child sex abuse.

A bid by two republicans to overturn a landmark civil ruling that found them responsible for the Omagh bomb has been rejected by the European Court of Human Rights.

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled a civil case brought against two men accused of involvement in the Omagh bombing was conducted fairly.

A group of solicitors from around the country are coming together to win damages against the State, for people sexually abused in Irish primary schools.

Cork woman Louise O’Keeffe was abused by school principal Leo Hickey while she was an eight-year-old pupil at Dunderrow NS, in Kinsale, in 1973.

The European Court of Human Rights will decide later this week if a convicted murderer from Northern Ireland was denied justice over delays in decisions about the lawfulness of his detention.

The body representing national newspapers in Ireland yesterday said the Irish legislative framework “breaches” European law as it fails to adequately protect “the sources and privacy of journalists”.

Abuse victim Louise O’Keeffe, who defeated the State in the European Court, has launched a stinging attack on Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan over her “deplorable” failure to properly deal with children abused by State employees.

EUROPEAN courts have been a force for good in this society.

More than 200 child sex abuse victims who dropped cases against the State relating to abuse when they were at school could be eligible for offers up to €84,000 each under a new scheme approved by the Government.

Solicitor Brian O’Donnell has said Bank of Ireland “set fire” to his business and “bullied” his family over the Gorse Hill property.

A Kerryman with learning difficulties has lost his appeal before Europe’s top human rights court to have his conviction for a murder in the North overturned.

The rights of more than 1,000 UK prisoners were breached when they were prevented from voting in elections, European judges have said.

The State’s offer of out-of- court settlements to victims of child sexual abuse at school has been described as "an absolute disgrace" by survivor Louise O’Keeffe, who was forced to resort to the European courts in her own battle for justice.

The State is opposing an application by lawyers for the hooded men for their legal costs over a case they brought to the High Court in a bid to compel the Government to seek a revision from the European Court of Human Rights of its findings over their internment in the 1970s.

Several men seeking the reopening of a landmark case against Britain over the alleged use of torture techniques in Northern Ireland during the Troubles are "heartened" the Government is now taking their case seriously, their counsel told the High Court yesterday.

A group of men detained by British security forces during the Troubles want the Irish Government to step in and seek a review of a controversial 1978 judgment of the European Court of Human Rights which said their treatment was "inhuman and degrading" but not torture.