A new chief executive has been appointed at Forensic Science Northern Ireland. Andrew Elliott has taken on the top post in the agency within the Department of Justice, which is responsible for the provision of impartial scientific advice and support, to enhance the criminal justice system.

Northern Ireland’s Crown Court has sentenced a man who slit his sister’s throat and set fire to her whilst she was still alive is sentenced to 24 years’ imprisonment. Delivering judgment for the Crown Court of Northern Ireland, Madam Justice Denise McBride stated to the defendant:

UK government has formally commenced key provisions of Northern Ireland's identity and language legislation, granting official status to the Irish and Ulster Scots languages for the first time. Northern Ireland secretary Hilary Benn yesterday told MPs that he had commenced provisions in sections 1,

Belfast firm KRW LAW has been included by the Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA) among the small number of law firms nominated to provide legal assistance to victims of the infected blood scandal who are applying for compensation. The scheme will help to process applications for all victim

A training programme for Fiosrú staff has welcomed its second cohort of students at the University of Limerick. The two-year postgraduate programme has been developed by UL School of Law in conjunction with Fiosrú, the Office of the Police Ombudsman, to support its staff learning and d

The University College Dublin Law Review has launched a call for submissions for its upcoming Volume XXVI. The student-run, peer-reviewed annual legal journal welcomes contributions on a broad range of contemporary legal issues, in particular articles pertaining to Irish and European law — tho

Ulster University students Connor Nicholas and Pearse Smith have triumphed in the Northern Ireland regional heat of the Brown Mosten International Client Consultation Competition (BM ICCC). The BM ICCC is an annual global competition for law students to practice interviewing, counselling, and proble

Three trainee barristers are benefitting from bespoke scholarships designed to support their studies at the Institute of Professional Legal Studies (IPLS) at Queen's University Belfast. Bar trainees Emma Faulkner and Georgia Liddle have been announced as the first ever recipients of the Bar of North

Adam Synnott has the felicitous capacity to combine brisk efficiency with engaging affability. It’s a useful admixture that undoubtedly facilitates his career at EY Law Ireland, a stand-alone, regulated law firm which forms part of the global EY network. Mr Synnott, partner and head of corpora

The word that regularly recurs in Constance Cassidy’s vocabulary is “busy”. Often augmented to “busy, busy, busy”. It’s hardly surprising. The senior counsel’s day has begun some five hours before our mid-morning interview and the number of appointments in h

October is European Cybersecurity Month (ECSM), the EU's annual campaign dedicated to promoting cybersecurity among its citizens and organisations, and to providing current online security information. Ironically, it has coincided with Amazon Web Services (AWS) experiencing a recent major outage in

The view from Andrew McGahey’s home office south of Navan in Co Meath is an idyllic one. The vista of tranquillity that takes in the Hill of Tara and the River Boyne ends here, though — the EMEA managing partner of Kennedys Law LLP is responsible for seven offices, where daily life is di