A drag queen who was subjected to a campaign of online abuse after hosting a children's storytelling event has instructed Belfast firm Phoenix Law to take legal action. Lady Portia Di'Monte was one of the two drag performers running the family-friendly event at Holywood Arches Library in Belfast as

Northern Ireland's agriculture, environment and rural affairs minister was welcomed to Law Society House this week for a high-level seminar on climate policy and legal engagement. The first-of-its-kind event was hosted by the Law Society of Northern Ireland's climate justice group and featured a mod

A man who lost his job after suffering two strokes is to receive a £100,000 settlement after taking action with support from the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland. Clifford Donaldson accused his former employer, Fraser Partners Ltd, of disability and age discrimination. The case has bee

TLT has appointed commercial real estate expert Jonathan O’Hagan as a partner in the firm's Belfast office. Mr O'Hagan joins TLT from DWF, bringing over 10 years' experience in the real estate sector, and has been hired to help meet growing client demand for cross-jurisdictional real esta

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin has been elected as an international fellow of the British Academy. She is one of 92 distinguished scholars announced on Friday to have been elected to the British Academy’s fellowship in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humaniti

Mr Justice Bryan McMahon has been presented with the 2025 Hibernian Law Medal in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the legal tradition in Ireland. Dr Jonathan O'Rourke, editor-in-chief of the Hibernian Law Journal, presented the medal to the retired High Court judge at an event in Blac

Ulster University's Centre for Legal Technology (CLT) has announced a new research and innovation partnership with Lawri AI, a Northern Ireland-based legal technology startup. The collaboration, led by CLT's director John Keers BL, will explore how AI and automation can improve the efficiency, accur

Trainee solicitors from north and south of the border impressed at the International Negotiation Competition (INC) in London last week. The INC is the oldest and most renowned competition focusing on international legal negotiation for law students from all over the world.

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

Ailish Finnerty has had only had some six weeks to become accustomed to her role as the new chair at Arthur Cox. She has, though, an air of calm assurance — the consequence of her history with the firm, one that stretches back to her becoming a trainee there after taking a BCL and LLM at UCC a

Wherever there is an Irish diaspora — and where is there not? — there will be St Patrick’s Day celebrations. This was the case earlier this month at the Hyatt Regency hotel in London when the London Irish Lawyers Association (LILA) gathered for its third annual St Patrick’s D