Supreme Court judge Frank Clarke is to be appointed chief justice after the Cabinet signed off on his nomination in its last meeting before the summer recess.

Peter Charleton, who will chair the inquiry into the alleged smearing of a garda whistleblower, believes that lies underpin evil, says Dan Buckley

“THERE’S another one down here that we could go to,” said Fionn’s uncle. “This one will be too crowded.”

The Government has appointed a former Fine Gael senator to a highly paid European role worth €250,000 per year.

The country’s judges were engaged in a long-running dispute with successive governments in the early 1980s over their pay and expenses.

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The Government is to nominate two female judges to the Supreme Court.

Straight-talking Judge Judy Sheindlin paid a flying visit to the Four Courts yesterday.

A Kerryman has been appointed as editor of the Irish Independent newspaper in the first of a round of changes at Independent News & Media.

The Government has nominated barrister Colm MacEochaidh, a former Fine Gael election candidate, for appointment to the High Court.

A LARGE congregation of family, friends, representatives of the legal profession, members of the judiciary and civic dignitaries gathered at St Patrick’s Church on the Lower Road in Cork yesterday for the funeral Mass of retired Circuit Court Judge Anthony G Murphy who died on Sunday, aged 80.

AS John B Keane’s widow Mary is fond of saying: “you have to be awful smart when you’re dealing with stupid people”.

FORMER attorney general Rory Brady who died yesterday was described by ex-Taoiseach Bertie Ahern as his most trusted Cabinet colleague.

WILLIE O’DEA, recognised as one of the biggest Fianna Fáil vote catchers in his bailiwick, was born in Limerick in 1952.

KING’S INN’S is to offer a Barrister-at-law modular degree course for those who have the potential to practise but do not have the time to study full-time.

THE recent cabinet decision to abolish the Irish language requirement for the Law Society and the King’s Inns was disappointing.

THE country’s top criminal judge, Mr Justice Paul Carney, has been announced as the new adjunct professor in the Faculty of Law at University College Cork.

The Government must step up the enforcement of fire safety in pubs and nightclubs to safeguard the public, the head of the Stardust inquiry warned today.

MORE colleges than ever before will be involved in the draws for the Datapac Third level championships in hurling and football, which will be held in Croke Park this morning.

THE Competition Authority (CA) has no powers to force the Society of the King’s Inns to accept its radical recommendations for reform of barristers’ training and regulation, it confirmed yesterday.

THE Law Society of Ireland has rejected radical proposals by the Competition Authority to reform the legal profession, including the creation of a new independent regulatory body.

THE first female President of the District Court was sworn in yesterday.

The first ever female President of the District Court was sworn in today.

THE Competition Authority has extended the deadline for submissions on its preliminary report on the legal profession to June 30, 2005.

Cherie Booth today followed in the footsteps of her husband, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, by accepting a top legal honour during a visit to Dublin.

Cherie Booth was today following in the footsteps of her husband, Prime Minister Tony Blair, by being awarded a top legal honour during a visit to the Irish Republic.