Gardaí and other frontline workers in the criminal justice system need specialised training in disability awareness to meet statutory obligations under international and domestic law, stakeholders have acknowledged.

A landmark Cork pub will be transformed into an art gallery tonight to help fund an orphanage on the other side of the world.

The IMF has denied it tried to undermine the country’s legal system when as part of the Troika it insisted on changes to cut lawyers costs as part of our austerity programme.

PAYMENTS by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to barristers last year increased by 11% to €15.2 million in spite of the Government imposing a 8% cut on lawyers’ fees in March of last year.

MARY Dundon’s article on the Personal Injury Assessment Board (Irish Examiner, Oct 9) referred to legal fees for personal injury actions being 440 million last year.