Northern Ireland firm Wilson Nesbitt has named Assisi Animal Sanctuary as its new charity of the year. The law firm will collaborate with the local independent animal welfare charity, which provides essential shelter and care for animals in need, in a one-year partnership that will see Wilson Nesbit

Northern Ireland's justice minister, Naomi Long, has condemned a "mob" of masked protesters who staged a demonstration outside of her home yesterday evening. Around 40 protesters are said to have gathered outside the home Mrs Long shares with her husband, Alliance Party colleague and Belfast council

Northern Ireland's police ombudsman, Marie Anderson, will not be prosecuted following a police investigation into alleged misconduct. The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) today said prosecutors had concluded there was no reasonable prospect of conviction for any offence, having reviewed a file submi

Arthur Cox Northern Ireland has welcomed six new trainee solicitors: Olivia Berry, Ava Cleary-McGuffin, Beth Hillis, Ryan Irvine, Caleb Moore and Ciara O’Hagan. The new trainees will work alongside partners across each of the firm’s core practice areas, including corporate, finance, disp

Dr Eoin O'Dell reminds Senator Michael McDowell, following his rebuke of social media platforms for online defamation, that he still has an opportunity to do something about it. Last week, in his column in The Irish Times, Michael McDowell took social media platforms to task for shirking their respo

The post-Brexit Conservative government rolled back the frontiers of liberal democracy, research led by the University of Stirling has argued. The research paper, Democratic backsliding and public administration: the experience of the UK, was published in the journal Policy Studies.

Dr Amanda Byer, Dr Ciara Molloy and Dr Aoife McPartland have been appointed as faculty members at UCD Sutherland School of Law. Dr Byer has joined the university as assistant professor in international law and global justice as part of the Ad Astra Fellows programme, a UCD initiative to recruit 50 e

A first-year law student at Dublin City University (DCU) has won an essay competition held to mark the 50th anniversary of the Law Reform Commission. Ella Santoro won first place in the competition with an essay arguing in favour of an increase in the minimum age of criminal responsibility in Irelan

The quest for knowledge has advanced beyond imagination in the millennia since Plato and Aristotle first proposed their theories of epistemology. For legal firms at the leading edge of meeting today’s exacting demands, ‘knowledge’ now involves a multitude of practical applications,

A solicitor who was forced out of her home by a relentless campaign of criminal harassment has urged legal professionals to break the “taboo” of speaking out about abuse. Emma Lyons, who runs a family and criminal law practice in west Belfast, joined the Law Society of Northern Ireland&r

It’s certainly been an eventful summer for partner Darragh Mackin at Belfast solicitors Phoenix Law. Many of the firm’s cases have been in the public eye, and probably none so much as the discrimination case successfully brought by Irish language rap group Kneecap against the UK governme

Paddy Kelly’s energetic leadership of the Children’s Law Centre (CLC) in Northern Ireland has seen it assume a pivotal role in advancing the rights and best interests of children and young people. When Ms Kelly, its founder and CEO, steps down at the end of this month, the most important