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Barra McGrory QC has announced plans to step down as Northern Ireland's Director of Public Prosecutions in September 2017. Mr McGrory has informed Attorney General John Larkin QC of his decision, which will prompt a competition to appoint a successor.

Mason Hayes & Curran has appointed six new partners to its dispute resolution, real estate, technology, and financial services teams.

The final version of Labour's general election manifesto includes a watered-down pledge to work with the Northern Ireland Assembly on abortion. A leaked draft of the election manifesto had said: “Labour will continue to ensure a woman’s right to choose a safe, legal abortion – and we will legi

A 38-year-old man being held on remand died in Maghaberry Prison this morning. The Northern Ireland Prison Service confirmed that investigations have been launched by the PSNI, the Coroner and the Prisoner Ombudsman.

A medical student who stabbed her boyfriend may be spared a prison term because of her “extraordinary talent”, a judge has said. In September last year, aspiring surgeon Lavinia Woodward, 24, a student at Oxford University, punched and attacked a man she had met on Tinder during a drink and drug

A husband and wife have been found guilty of fraud in what has become the UK's longest ever criminal trial. At the High Court in Glasgow, Edwin Mclaren, 52, was found guilty of defrauding homeowners to the tune of £1.6 million in a case that began in September 2015.

A man who was convicted of raping a pregnant woman as she slept alone in her bedroom has successfully appealed the severity of his sentence, having had his sentence of seven-and-a-half years’ imprisonment quashed, and varied by the Court of Appeal to six years’ imprisonment. Delivering the judgm

Michael King Cyber criminals are increasingly seeing law firms as lucrative targets, the head of Cleaver Fulton Rankin's cyber risk unit has warned.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Ireland saw a 12 per cent reduction in prison committals last year, according to the Irish Prison Service's annual report for 2016.

Legal professionals hit the ground running as Ian Huddleston, president of the Law Society (right) looks on The Law Society of Northern Ireland is confident its charity walk/run for Marie Curie Northern Ireland has smashed its funding target.

Local legal professionals have paid tribute to late Limerick solicitor John Devane, who passed away at the age of 54, the Limerick Leader reports. Judge Marian O'Leary told Limerick District Court yesterday that she was "deeply saddened and shocked" by Mr Devane's passing.

Pictured (l-r): Pat O’Hagan (CIArb); Andrew Singer BL; Jarlath Kearney (CIArb); and Julie-Ann McCaffrey (Cleaver Fulton Rankin) Belfast firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has been thanked by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) for hosting a recent construction mediation masterclass for CIArb me

Seven Northern Ireland lawyers raised over £7,000 for a charity working to stop false imprisonment in Kenya by going behind bars in Downpatrick County Museum Jail. The International Justice Mission (IJM) fundraising initiative saw the lawyers locked up and challenged to raise a "bail" amount of £5

of the member states as the provisions of the agreement relating to non-direct foreign investment and to dispute settlement between investors and states do not fall within the exclusive competence of the European Union, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled. On 20 September 2013, the

Maurice Frankel Proposals to extend the reach of the Official Secrets Act 1989 would "threaten journalists and whistleblowers", the Campaign for Freedom of Information (CFOI) and Article 19 have warned.