Northern Ireland

The PSNI has a backlog of nearly 300 Freedom of Information (FOI) requests which have not been answered within the statutory time limit, The Irish News reports. The backlog currently totals 273 requests, more than a fifth of the 1,270 requests received by the service this year so far.

Lawyers at Belfast firm Davidson McDonnell have celebrated a period of expansion for the firm with an office warming party at its new headquarters.

An inquest into the 1971 Ballymurphy massacre has opened before presiding coroner Ms Justice Siobhan Keegan in Belfast. The next two weeks of hearings will hear evidence regarding the killing of nine men and one woman over three days in August 1971.

Tracey Schofield, commercial property partner at A&L Goodbody, was named Best in Professional Services at the recent Women In Business Awards 2018.

McCay Solicitors has announced the appointment of solicitors Eleanor McFeeters and Aaron Mullen in the firm's Derry and Strabane offices.

The former Advocate General for Northern Ireland has warned that Brexit risks undermining the rule of law in Northern Ireland if the UK government doesn't change course. Dominic Grieve, Attorney General for England and Wales and Advocate General for Northern Ireland from May 2010 to July 2014, made

Lawyers for two Northern Ireland journalists arrested following the release of their documentary No Stone Unturned have questioned the legal basis of the arrest after it emerged the Police Ombudsman had not made a complaint of theft against them. Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney were arrested in Au

Belfast firm Francis Hanna & Co Solicitors have raised over £13,000 for cancer charities in memory of the firm's late partner, Gerry Daly.

Belfast solicitors Lynsey Watson, Helen Trimble and Noelle McKay have been appointed principal legal officers at Northern Ireland's Land Registry. The role will see them advise Land Registry examiners on the legal aspects of registration and adverse possession.

The High Court in Belfast has begun hearing a judicial review brought by a woman who was prosecuted for buying abortion pills for her daughter. The landmark case marks the first time that the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has been challenged on a decision relating to Northern Ireland's restrictiv

Antrim-based Legal-Island has become the only Northern Ireland business shortlisted in the Gold Employer of the year (2-49) category in the Investors in People (IIP) Awards 2018. The law training and information company helps HR professionals understand employment law and how it applies to their wor

Professor Anne-Marie McAlinden's inaugural lecture at QUB School of Law, "Re-Imagining the Risk of Sexual Offending", has been published on YouTube.

Pet lambs reared by young people detained at Hydebank Wood College have been donated to a local charity.

John McKee Solicitors will offer a wider range of claims solutions services to insurance composite NFU Mutual following its reappointment to its revised legal panel. The Belfast firm is one of four legal services firms selected to support the delivery of the group's claims strategy.

More than 80 lawyers and legal academics are among the 1,000 signatories of an open letter calling on Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to ensure the rights of Irish citizens in Northern Ireland are protected after Brexit. The letter has been published in a double-page advert in The Irish News today and follow