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Lorcan O’Connor, director of the ISI There was a 26 per cent increase in new applications for Personal Insolvency Arrangements (PIAs) in the first quarter of 2016, according to new figures.

Acting Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe Acting Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe has criticised the continued use of court poor box donations to provide an alternative to penalty points.

Solicitor Gavin Booth of KRW Law The Attorney General for Northern Ireland, John Larkin, has written to the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) in support of a fresh inquiry into the shooting of Colum Marks.

The detention of an Algerian national who acquired permanent residence in 2003 and 28 criminal convictions by 2012, pending a decision to deport him, was not unlawful, the Supreme Court has ruled as it additionally declined to make a preliminary reference to the Court of Justice of the European Unio

Faculty of Advocates’ director of training and education, Dr David Parratt The Faculty of Advocates’ director of training and education, Dr David Parratt, has achieved a highly unusual hat-trick, after calling to the Northern Ireland bar.

Matt Higgins Staff members at Belfast firm HHD Solicitors are completing the Belfast Marathon 2016 to raise funds for CAUSE.

The Court of Appeal has upheld the High Court’s construction of a will, following a dispute between the will’s executor and his nephew over the use of land as a garden. The appellant, James Mullen, was the son and executor of the will of the late Elizabeth Mullen, while the respondent, James Mul

Gerry McAlinden QC, chairman of the Bar Council of Northern Ireland Gerry McAlinden QC, chairman of the Bar Council of Northern Ireland, stressed the importance of an independent referral bar in a major speech delivered over the weekend.

John Halford of Bindmans LLP The UK government has been forced to back down on introducing a residence test for civil legal aid claims in England and Wales.

Drivers are continuing to avoid penalty points and fines by donating to court poor boxes despite a court ruling that the practice is barred under the Road Traffic Act 2010, The Irish Times reports. There were more than 37,000 people before the Irish courts for speeding offences between January 2013-

Emma Hutchinson Co Down lawyer Emma Hutchinson is among a group of UK Labour Party members who are defying party rules by running candidates in next month's Northern Ireland Assembly elections.

Corporate insurance head Darren Maher Dublin-based Matheson's insurance team boasts three ‘Leading Individuals’ in the 2016 Legal 500 directory for EMEA.

Brian O'Gorman, managing partner at Arthur Cox Dublin-based Arthur Cox has won the Ireland Law Firm of the Year 2016 award at the third annual Who’s Who Legal awards ceremony in New York.

The importance of independent advocates as “a very precious asset” in a democratic society has been underscored by Lord Neuberger, President of the UK Supreme Court.

The European Court of Human Rights will be delivering a Grand Chamber judgment in the case of Murray v the Netherlands at a public hearing on 26 April. The case concerns the complaint by a man convicted of murder in 1980, who consecutively served his life sentence on the islands of Curaçao and Arub