Northern Ireland

The launch of a statutory registration scheme for providers of publicly-funded legal services must be pushed back further than September 2017, The Bar of Northern Ireland has said. In its response to the Department of Justice's consultation on the scheme, The Bar said the latest consultation documen

Northern Ireland's Attorney General John Larkin QC will intervene in a High Court case over legal recognition of humanist weddings. Model Laura Lacole and footballer Eunan O’Kane are seeking to challenge laws by which couples wishing to have a humanist ceremony must also have a separate civil regi

Over 400 lawyers have been welcomed to Belfast for the International Bar Association's Bar Leaders' Conference and Mid-Year Meetings.

20 June In the matter of an application by Jason Loughlin for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland)

Belfast firm Worthingtons Solicitors is sponsoring this year's Family Friendly Employer Awards. The awards, organised by Employers for Childcare, recognise employers who assist their employees to achieve a balance between their work and family lives.

Pinsent Masons has celebrated being named Construction Law Firm of the Year for the 10th year in a row at the Who's Who Legal Awards ceremony in London.

Pictured (l-r): Paddy Mullarky, Imelda McMillan, Joe Moore Patrick Mullarkey has joined Belfast firm O’Reilly Stewart Solicitors as a clinical negligence partner, the firm has announced.

A woman has been awarded over £50,000 in damages after another driver drove into the back of her car, resulting in £3,000 worth of repairs. In the High Court in Belfast, evidence was adduced that the woman was impecunious, was unable to foot the bill for the repairs; and that she could not afford

Attorney General John Larkin QC Northern Ireland's Attorney General John Larkin QC will give a lecture at Clough Non-Subscribing Meeting House in Co Down next week.

Over 12,000 people joined a Belfast demonstration calling for the implementation of an Irish Language Act over the weekend.

Putting the needs of children at the centre of the Justice system was one of the key themes discussed at a conference organised and hosted by the Law Society of Northern Ireland.

Kevin Winters KRW Law has been nominated for two prestigious Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) awards.

The Bar of Northern Ireland's charity committee has named The Welcome Organisation as its 2017-18 Charity of the Year.

Barra McGrory QC has announced plans to step down as Northern Ireland's Director of Public Prosecutions in September 2017. Mr McGrory has informed Attorney General John Larkin QC of his decision, which will prompt a competition to appoint a successor.

The final version of Labour's general election manifesto includes a watered-down pledge to work with the Northern Ireland Assembly on abortion. A leaked draft of the election manifesto had said: “Labour will continue to ensure a woman’s right to choose a safe, legal abortion – and we will legi