A Supreme Court judge says our system of processing asylum applications serves neither asylum-seekers not the State and is “costly”, “inefficient”, and “counter-productive in its effect”.

A Limerick man whose conviction for murder was quashed following a successful appeal will be sentenced for manslaughter next week at the Central Criminal Court.

A Wicklow man jailed for killing his ex-fiancée's three-and-a-half-month-old baby has lost an appeal against his conviction for manslaughter.

A man in England has lost a court fight over his five-year-old daughter following the death of his estranged partner.

A security guard of a ghost estate, who attacked a woman unprovoked in her home, has been sentenced to two years in in prison following a finding by the Court of Appeal that his wholly suspended three year sentence was “unduly lenient”.

A man whose neighbour allowed him to rape her daughter repeatedly over a three-year period from the age of five has been sentenced to 14 years in prison following a finding last year by the Court of Appeal that his original eight-year-sentence was too lenient.

A man arrested at a Republican Sinn Féin commemoration who went on to assault a detective garda and “took a hold” of his pistol has lost an appeal against conviction.

The family of radical preacher Abu Qatada has won an injunction preventing protesters from demonstrating outside their home in the UK.

Former Northern Rock shareholders turned the clock back two years today by forming a queue to highlight their battle for “fair” compensation.

McLAREN were yesterday accused of being “shameless hypocrites” in their bid to see Lewis Hamilton crowned this year’s Formula One world champion.

Ferrari boss Jean Todt has warned bitter rivals McLaren to appeal at their peril and risk the prospect of seeing Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso kicked out of the drivers’ championship.

Lewis Hamilton’s world title dream is once again under threat after new evidence surfaced in Formula One’s ’spy’ saga.

McLAREN face the serious threat of exclusion from the Formula One world championship as new evidence has surfaced in the ‘spy’ saga.

McLaren boss Ron Dennis has slammed as "disturbing" what he sees as the distortion of Lewis Hamilton's private life.

Two French agents briefly jailed in New Zealand for bombing the protest ship Rainbow Warrior cannot challenge a New Zealand court decision allowing the broadcast of video footage of their 1985 trial, the Court of Appeal ruled today in Wellington.

LAWYERS for OK! magazine are to take the epic court battle over the wedding pictures of Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas to the Britain’s House of Lords.

Former right wing political leader Pauline Hanson has won her release from prison with a court ruling in Brisbane today overturning a fraud conviction and three-year jail sentence imposed in August.

Middlesbrough chairman Steve Gibson has vowed to make both Liverpool and Christian Ziege pay for the way the German international was prised from his club’s grasp.