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Geraldine Hanna, the chief executive of Victim Support NI A leading charity supporting victims in Northern Ireland has called for a focus on "reforms to the criminal justice system" ahead of the Northern Ireland Assembly election.

Ireland's courts are facing an eight-month backlog of Ward of Court applications, the Sunday Independent reports. Solicitors have recently been told that it will take eight months in order to complete the process, which is used to put the president of the High Court in charge of the welfare and asse

Pictured (l-r) Dr. Theresa Donaldson, John Guerin, Councillor Thomas Beckett, Alan Hunter and Alderman James Tinsley. The Law Society of Northern Ireland has met with representatives of Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council to discuss the impending closure of Lisburn Court House.

Pictured (l-r): Cllr Paul McAuliffe and Niall Collins TD Fianna Fáil set out proposals to reform the justice system at the launch of its new policy document, Supporting Victims, this morning.

Pictured (l-r): Mr Justice Seamus Noonan, Kevin Flood, Colum Holland and Joe Kelly of A&L Goodbody Trinity College Dublin (TCD) law students Kevin Flood and Colum Holland have triumphed in a moot court competition.

Justice Minister David Ford Northern Ireland's Justice Minister David Ford has met with Lynne Owens, the new director general of the National Crime Agency (NCA).

Mason Hayes & Curran has invited third level students in Ireland to participate in its inaugural tech law writing contest. Students are invited to submit 500-600 word essays on Technology, Media and Communications Law, Intellectual Property, Data Security or Data Protection with the winner in wi

An appeal by the PSNI officer who attempted to arrest a judge during court proceedings against his three month prison sentence has been adjourned for a week. Thomas Anthony Carlin, 43, sought leave to appeal his sentence to the UK Supreme Court at a specially convened hearing in Belfast at 7pm on Fr

A man has lost his appeal against the High Court’s dismissal of his negligence claim against the Minister for Defence, after the Supreme Court reaffirmed the High Court’s position that there had been inordinate and inexcusable delay. The appellant Peter McGarry’s claim had been that he had suf

Ciarán Moynagh of McLernon Moynagh Solicitors A legal challenge to the Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Criminal Justice and Support for Victims) Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 was adjourned for over three weeks at a hearing in Belfast this morning.

Dublin law firm Mason Hayes & Curran (MHC) has published analysis of the impact on employment law of the main Irish political parties' proposals. The firm compared the manifestos of Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, Labour and Sinn Féin in order to establish how their proposed policies would affect busi

The PSNI officer who attempted to arrest a judge during court proceedings has confirmed he will appeal against his three month prison sentence. Thomas Anthony Carlin, 43, will seek leave to appeal his sentence to the UK Supreme Court at a specially convened hearing in Belfast tonight.

Law Centre (NI) client Andrea Richardson has received over £5,900 in compensation in a settlement for breach of the law which protects agency workers’ rights. In her application to the Industrial Tribunal, Ms Richardson claimed that she was entitled to equal pay with direct employees of the organ

The Irish Prison Service (IPS) has said incidents of self-harm and suicide "dramatically dropped" after TVs were made available to inmates in 2002. The IPS was responding to figures published by the Irish Examiner which show that it spent €440,427 on TVs for inmates over 2014-15.

Kathryn Forde, real estate partner at TLT's Belfast office UK law firm TLT advised Kremlin Associates on the purchase of a site that will host a new hotel in Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter.