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Maria McCloskey Maria McCloskey, an associate solicitor at Napier & Sons in Belfast, has been appointed to co-ordinate a new legal project in partnership with the Northern Ireland Community of Refugees and Asylum Seekers (NICRAS).

A couple who want to take their seriously ill baby to the US for experimental treatment against the wishes of the hospital in which he is being kept on life support have been refused permission to appeal by the UK Supreme Court. Chris Gard and Connie Yates, whose son Charlie suffers from MDDS, were

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Draft legislation establishing the Independent Reporting Commission in Irish law has been published, fulfilling a key part of the Fresh Start Agreement agreed in Belfast two years ago.

John Finucane Belfast solicitor John Finucane has failed in his bid to be elected as Sinn Féin's MP for North Belfast.

It is incompatible with EU law to require a worker to take leave first before being able to establish whether he is entitled to be paid for it, according to Advocate General Tanchev. In circumstances where an employer has not provided a worker with paid leave, the right to paid leave carries over un

A man in Thailand has been given a record 35-year sentence after insulting royalty on Facebook. 34-year-old Mr Wichai was convicted on 10 counts of lèse-majesté by a military court in Bangkok after posting photos and videos of the Thai Royal Family on a Facebook account which he fraudulently creat

A former GAA footballer who was subject to two seriously defamatory publications in the Sunday World has been awarded damages totalling €310,000. Mr Justice O’Connor found that the public scrutiny faced by the former footballer meant that aggravated and punitive damages were also necessary. Back

Pictured: Michael Johnston, managing partner at Carson McDowell, with newly appointed partners Mary-Kim Doherty, Kerry Teahan, Peter Guzhar, Grant McBurney and Olivia O’Kane Northern Ireland's largest independent law firm, Carson McDowell, has today announced the appointment of five new partners.

John McGuinness Compensation pay-outs for medical negligence have nearly doubled in five years, the Irish Examiner reports.

Information Commissioner Peter Tyndall A record number of Freedom of Information requests were made to public bodies last year, according to Information Commissioner Peter Tyndall's annual report.

The UK Supreme Court will rule next week on a challenge to the Secretary of State for Health over his failure to make abortion available on the NHS in England to women from Northern Ireland. Judgment in R (on the application of A and B) (Appellants) v Secretary of State for Health (Respondent) will

Pictured (l-r): Andrew K.C. Nyirenda and Áine Hearns The King's Inns has gifted copies of important recent legal publications to the Courts Service of Malawi.

Pictured (l-r): Nora Hickey M’Sichili, Director of the Centre Culturel Irlandais; Liam Guidera, Partner at Mason Hayes & Curran; and Dara O'Leary, RDS Arts Programme Manager Mason Hayes & Curran is teaming up with the RDS to create a new prize for the second year of the RDS Visual Art Awar

Peter Stapleton Maples and Calder has been named Europe's best exchange-traded funds (ETF) law firm.

Ian Gordon A standards commissioner from Scotland was brought in to mediate in a dispute between two Northern Ireland councillors, The Irish News reports.