A visit to a district court here by a delegation of judges from the Eastern European country shows the advantages and disadvantages of both structures, writes Noel Baker.

An allegation that two coats went missing from a bar led to a threat being made to a bar manager and a violent altercation with security staff.

A wheelchair user wept as he recalled how he was attacked as he slept in his specially modified camper van. He thought he was going to be killed.

A woman who found her partner in another woman’s bedroom, ended up assaulting the woman her partner was with, a court has heard.

A judge has criticised Dublin-based “mandarins”, detached from the reality of life in rural Ireland, for advocating the closure of a district court in one of the country’s top tourist towns.