Northern Ireland

DWF is rolling out an award-winning education and employability programme to post-primary schools across Northern Ireland.

A new recycling project run by prisoners at Maghaberry Prison has slashed landfill contribution and costs in the last six months. Around 30 prisoners are now employed in a new initiative to recycle plastic, tin-cans, cardboard, newspaper and broken pallets. Waste electronic and electrical equipment

Charlene Dempsey HHD Solicitors successfully defended a 37-year-old Polish national from deportation following his conviction of drugs offences.

Pictured (l-r): Alan Reid, Kirsty Finney and Sam Dickey The Law Society of Northern Ireland has backed a new initiative to make buying and selling a home smoother for consumers.

Claire Edgar Claire Edgar, partner at Francis Hanna & Co Solicitors, has contributed an article on domestic violence to the latest edition of VIEW magazine.

Belfast-based Tughans has celebrated triple success at Insider's Northern Ireland Dealmakers Awards 2018.

A judge in the High Court in Belfast has mounted a strong defence of the rule of law as he criticised an alleged vigilante who terrorised a woman who he accused of being a paedophile. Sir Richard McLaughlin said the courts were the only place for the law to be administered, The Irish News reports.

Neasa Quigley Carson McDowell has acted as lead legal advisers to the shareholders of Lowe Rental in relation to "one of the largest ever private equity deals in Northern Ireland".

Ciaran O'Hare Victims' campaigner Raymond McCord has been granted leave by the High Court in Belfast for a judicial review of the criteria under which a border poll would be held in Northern Ireland.

Staff at global law firm Baker McKenzie's Belfast office have raised over £20,000 for local nominated charity Cancer Focus NI at their first-ever "Baker Come Dancing" night in the Clayton Hotel.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has recorded a 60 per cent rise in paramilitary punishment shootings and beatings in the last four years, The Guardian reports. There were 101 shootings and beatings by dissident republicans and loyalists last year, up from 64 in 2013, according to the l

Carla Fraser and Julie Tierney Two lawyers at Edwards & Co. Solicitors have been recognised as specialist family lawyers by a leading UK child abduction charity.

Pictured (l-r): Competition judge David Gaston, students Abena Aduse-Poku and Doreen Awuah, and competition judge Colin Mitchell Students at Queen's University Belfast have emerged as winners of the Client Consultation Competition 2018.

A woman whose husband died over 30 years ago and has not had an Article 2 ECHR compliant investigation into his death has successfully argued that the decision of former First Minister, Arlene Foster, not to permit a paper on legacy inquests to go before the Executive Committee was unlawful. Directi

Grainne Teggart Amnesty International has called on Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley to urgently release funding for legacy inquests following yesterday's ruling by Justice Sir Paul Girvan.