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Patrick Corrigan, Northern Ireland programme director at Amnesty International Sunday marked 18 years since the Good Friday Agreement was signed, forming the basis for the Northern Ireland peace process in the 1990s and the eventual establishment of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Paul McBride, partner and head of the Belfast office at Pinsent Masons International law firm Pinsent Masons has been named Law Firm of the Year at the Legal Business Awards.

The publication in Iris Oifigiúil of the names of people who have obtained Irish citizenship has been suspended pending a review. Since 2011, the names and full addresses of new Irish citizens has been published in the official gazette of the Government of Ireland.

Members of the public have been invited to contribute to a code of ethics for An Garda Síochána. The Policing Authority plans to consult on the text of a draft code in autumn 2016 but is currently seeking the "preliminary views of the public, people who work for the Garda Síochána and other key

Two undergraduate and postgraduate student teams from Queens University Belfast (QUB) competed in the annual Corn Adomnáin International Humanitarian Law competition.

The High Court has found that three Portuguese companies that traded in Ireland as a partnership known as RAC Eire Partnership, failed to pay its employees for the amount of hours they worked, made unreasonable deductions from their pay, and designed a contract of employment that would conceal their

Donnacha Curley Donnacha Curley, an independent Seanad Éireann candidate on the industrial and commercial panel, has called for a constitutional referendum on joining the EU's Unified Patent Court.

Michael Johnston, managing partner of Carson McDowell Belfast firm Carson McDowell advised on nine major transactions worth £35 million in the first quarter of the year, the highest total value of any local law firm.

The Queen's University Belfast (QUB) Human Rights Centre and King's College London will co-host an all-day event next week examining the landmark European Court of Human Rights judgment in Ireland v UK (18 January 1978). The event stars in QUB's Canada Room at 10:30am on Thursday 14 April and runs u

A celebrity whose alleged “extramarital activities” are the subject of a gagging order under English law has been named in the US, calling into question the point of privacy injunctions in the age of social media. The man, whose identity was revealed in a US publication, is said to have been inv

Gardaí have sent a newly completed file on the 1981 Stardust nightclub fire to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). A fresh investigation was launched into the disaster that killed 48 people and injured 200 in Dublin 35 years ago after evidence emerged suggesting that five of the victims died

A parliamentary draughtsman has warned that the length of new bills and the number of clauses they include is becoming so great that the UK's Parliament is unable to scrutinise them properly. In a new report Dangerous Trends in Modern Legislation... and how to reverse them, published by the Centre f

The High Court has found that the Minister for the Environment acted ultra vires under the Northern Ireland Act 1998 and Ministerial Code, following his unilateral adoption of the Belfast Metropolitan Area Plan, without Executive agreement. The Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Investment had chal

Ronan Daly Jermyn has announced the appointment of Peter McGarvey and Mary Purtill as partners in the firm’s Galway and Dublin offices.

Pictured: Declan Black, managing partner of Mason Hayes & Curran, at the opening of the National Library for Blind Children Dublin firm Mason Hayes & Curran (MHC) has helped to develop and fund a national library for visually impaired children.