Northern Ireland

Belfast-based Cleaver Fulton Rankin has been named a Responsible Business Champion in this year’s Business in the Community (BITC) Responsible Business Awards.

Belfast-based Ó Muirigh Solicitors has been instructed by filmmaker Séan Murray following a "smear campaign by certain media commentators and individuals on social media". Mr Murray is the director of Unquiet Graves, a documentary exploring state collusion with loyalists during the Tro

Corporate law firm A&L Goodbody (ALG) has named social enterprise and wellbeing charity Inspire as its new charity partner in Northern Ireland. ALG, which employs around 120 lawyers and business support professionals in Belfast, will support Inspire through volunteering, pro bono legal advice an

The president of the UK Supreme Court has paid tribute to Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore in a special video to mark his retirement from the bench. Lord Kerr, a former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and one of the inaugural members of the UKSC on its creation in 2009, retired on Wednesday.

Corporate law firm A&L Goodbody (ALG) has announced the appointment of four new solicitors at its Belfast office. Lauren McCollum and Shane Swaile have both been appointed as assistant solicitors in the corporate department, while Lydia Gilmour and Kourosh Abelehkoob have joined the banking and

Lisa Bryson, partner and head of employment at Eversheds Sutherland in Belfast, highlights the importance of the successor to the Covid-19 furlough scheme. Six months on from the Chancellor’s first major intervention through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), Covid-19 is on the resur

Prosecutors have upheld their decision not to prosecute 15 former British soldiers for murder, attempted murder and causing grievous bodily injury in connection with Bloody Sunday in 1972. The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) conducted an internal review following its controversial decision in March

Lawyers for a self-employed chef are challenging the UK government's criteria for access to the Covid-19 job retention scheme. Brian Donaldson, the former chef to the Northern Ireland football squad at the Euros in 2016, switched from employee status to become self-employed last year.

Planning law reforms could help reduce the price of renewable electricity in Northern Ireland, a prominent energy lawyer has said. Richard Murphy, partner at Pinsent Masons and head of the international law firm's Irish energy group, today called on the Northern Ireland Executive to take action to h

Insurance risk and commercial law specialist firm BLM has announced the appointment of John Guerin as head of its Belfast and Derry offices. Mr Guerin, a former president of the Law Society of Northern Ireland, joins the firm amid a wider leadership restructure both north and south of the border.

Justice Minister Naomi Long has set out plans to avoid future legislative errors similar to the one which led to over a dozen convictions for certain sexual offences to be set aside. The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) last week announced that it would have to set aside the convictions of 15 indivi

A former prosecution barrister has been sentenced to 100 hours' community service and given a two-year probation order for making and possessing indecent images of children and possession of extreme pornography. Jonathan Lowry, 60, who was once a leading prosecutor in Belfast and Dungannon Crown Cou

New employment supports set to be introduced by the UK government following the end of the furlough scheme are not sufficient to avoid mass redundancies and significant hardship, Law Centre NI has said. The new Job Support Scheme will run for six months from 1 November 2020, but will only support so

Solicitors in Northern Ireland have been invited to join online classes part of an initiative to promote their health and wellbeing. The Law Society of Northern Ireland has organised the Well-being Day on Friday 9 October 2020, which includes online fitnesses classes and mental health advice.

UK law firm TLT has been recognised for its commitment to diversity and inclusion in Northern Ireland. The firm has achieved bronze accreditation from Diversity Mark NI, which seeks to address gender inequality in Northern Ireland.