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Solicitor Laura Banks of Belfast-based firm Francis Hanna & Co has been shortlisted as a finalist in the "Employee of the Year" category at the Belfast Business Awards 2019. The Belfast Business Awards have been dubbed "the most prestigious business awards in Northern Ireland, recognising excell

New laws that have come into effect today mean that British citizens taking up residence in foreign terror zones could be jailed for up to 10 years. The Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019 creates a criminal offence of entering or remaining in a “designated area” overseas.

A German woman has been told by a judge she will not be able to divorce her husband in England as she only visited London to attend the ballet and see an aristocrat friend, The Times reports. Clarissa Pierburg, 69, was accused of "divorce tourism" by her husband, Jurgen Pierburg, 73, an industrialis

An appeal hearing is scheduled for 1 May in the case of X (Appellant) v Kuoni Travel Ltd (Respondent), UKSC 2018/0102. The case turns on the question: is the holiday company, Kuoni, liable for sexual assault inflicted by one of its employees on a customer?

The arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange "sets a dangerous precedent", his lawyer has said. Having been convicted of skipping bail at Westminster Magistrates' Court, Mr Assange, 47, is likely to be handed a one-year jail sentence.

Alice Milligan was born in a village just outside Omagh in September 1866, one of thirteen children. Her parents were Methodists of modest means, and whose success in the Irish linen trade brought the family to Belfast in 1879. In Belfast, Alice was educated at Methodist College along with her survi

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A police officer is facing an internal investigation after turning up to a breathalyser training class while drunk. The officer volunteered to take part in a demonstration of the technology, which showed his blood alcohol level content was 80 mg per 100 millilitres.

Team USA triumphed in the Brown-Mosten International Client Consultation Competition, held this year at the Law Society of Ireland.

A former law lecturer who is serving ten years' imprisonment in Arbour Hill Prison for sexual offences has successfully argued that there was a want of fair procedures in a disciplinary hearing which resulted in his phone and visitation privileges being denied for 30 days. In deciding to sanction th

O'Reilly Stewart Solicitors has announced the promotion of Dionne Darragh to director and Christopher Bullock to associate solicitor at the Belfast-based firm. Ms Darragh, who joined the firm in 2006, has been appointed director in the personal injury litigation department. She specialises in specia

The Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) has announced the appointment of Fíona Ní Chinnéide as its new executive director.

An Garda Síochána has come under sharp criticism from the Policing Authority in a new report which says the organisation is "repeatedly over-promising and under-delivering". The watchdog said the garda accepts third-party recommendations "quickly ... with little assessment as to the fe

Comyn Kelleher Tobin (CKT) has become the first Irish law firm to invite legal mental health charity LawCare to speak to all of its employees about their services and how to ask for emotional support when needed. LawCare is a registered charity that promotes and supports good mental health and wellb

Attorney General Séamus Woulfe SC has postponed his trip to London to attend a four-day meeting being held in a hotel owned by the Sultan of Brunei. The International Academy of Trial Lawyers (IATL) is holding its 2019 annual meeting in the Dorchester Hotel from today until Sunday.