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Northern Ireland's Department of Justice has issued letters to former sub-postmasters whose convictions have been quashed through legislation. Madden & Finucane Solicitors said four of its clients have now received letters confirming their convictions have been quashed under the Post Office (Hor

Northern Ireland's Court of Appeal has quashed the convictions of a former sub-postmaster linked to the Post Office Horizon scandal. Hundreds of subpostmasters were convicted of fraud and false accounting offences based on unreliable evidence from the Post Office's faulty Horizon accounting system i

Law student Jordan Wilson has been awarded the 2024 Pat Finucane Memorial Aisling Education Bursary. Mr Wilson, who is studying law at Queen's University Belfast, was presented with the bursary by Peadar Madden of Madden & Finucane Solicitors.

Helen McEntee has rejected a request for an inquiry into the murder of Denis Donaldson. Mr Donaldson, once a leading member of Sinn Féin, was killed in April 2006 shortly after being exposed as an informer for police and British security forces.

Belfast firm Madden & Finucane Solicitors has raised over £1,500 for the Stroke Association.

Further legal action could be brought by victims and survivors of the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre following a decision not to prosecute any former British soldiers for perjury in relation to evidence they gave to successive inquiries, a lawyer has warned. Only one former British soldier, known as &l

Northern Ireland prosecutors will announce next week if they are bringing perjury charges against former British soldiers who gave evidence to inquiries into Bloody Sunday. The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has told lawyers acting for victims and survivors of the 1972 massacre that its decision w

A lawyer representing Northern Ireland victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal has said his clients are "afraid of getting left behind" as legislation moves forward in England and Wales. Michael Madden, solicitor at Madden & Finucane Solicitors, has written to justice minister Naomi Long to "

More potential victims of the Post Office scandal have come forward in Northern Ireland following the airing of a high-profile TV drama on the subject. Michael Madden, director at Belfast firm Madden & Finucane Solicitors, already represents 20 subpostmasters in Northern Ireland and told the&nbs

Belfast-based Madden & Finucane Solicitors has promoted Lynn Day to director and head of the firm's expanding civil litigation department. Ms Day joined Madden & Finucane in 2011 and specialises in all aspects of civil litigation, with particular expertise in personal injury claims.

Lawyers for a 27-year-old dental nurse arrested at her workplace in Derry yesterday have said they will bring proceedings against the PSNI for a "distasteful and deplorable abuse of powers". In a statement issued yesterday afternoon, the PSNI said the woman was arrested on suspicion of being concern

Staff at Madden & Finucane Solicitors will take part in the Belfast City Relay Marathon this weekend to raise cash for the Stroke Association.

Three murder convictions dating back to 1981 have been referred back to the Northern Ireland courts by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC). George Kirkpatrick, Eric Cullen and Cyril Cullen — the so-called Castlewellan Three — each received life sentences on 24 June 1981 for the k

A former subpostmaster convicted in connection with the Post Office Horizon scandal has become the first in Northern Ireland to have his conviction quashed. Alan McLaughlin, a subpostmaster in Belfast, was convicted in February 2005 of false accounting offences over an alleged discrepancy of around

The sole prosecution of a former British soldier in connection with Bloody Sunday in 1972 will resume next week, prosecutors have said. "Soldier F" was charged in March 2019 with the murder of James Wray and William McKinney, and the attempted murders of Joseph Friel, Michael Quinn, Joe Mahon, Patri