Northern Ireland

Solicitor Pat Finucane's widow, Geraldine Finucane, has lost her appeal against the UK government's refusal to hold a public inquiry into his 1989 murder. She argued that the previous Labour-led administration had promised an inquiry would be held, and that Prime Minister David Cameron had unlawfull

Professor Paddy Nixon Ulster University has launched a new Legal Innovation Centre with support from global firms Allen & Overy (A&O) and Baker McKenzie.

A £50,000 libel judgment against the Sunday World for referring to a County Down businessman as "a Scrooge" has been overturned by the Court of Appeal in Belfast. The Sunday World wrote in December 2014 that hotelier Gordon Coulter had "been branded a Scrooge for putting his staff on the street a w

A firm facing an investigation related to forensic testing for certain British police forces is not contracted to perform testing in Northern Ireland, the Department of Justice has said. Two men working for Crumlin-based Randox Testing Services (RTS) in Manchester have been arrested on suspicion of

Northern Ireland's youngest coroner, Joe McCrisken, has spoken to the Belfast Telegraph about his life and career. Mr McCrisken, the youngest full-time judicial office holder in Northern Ireland, spoke to Rebecca Black about his background as a barrister and his current work as a coroner - including

The appointment of three judges to Northern Ireland's Court of Appeal has been approved by Her Majesty The Queen. Mr Justice Stephens, Mr Justice Deeny and Mr Justice Treacy will be sworn into office as Lord Justices of Appeal later this year at the Royal Courts of Justice.

The High Court in Belfast declined jurisdiction in the case of a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Inspector who brought an application for judicial review, finding that the matter was not to be treated as one of public law. The inspector, Ms Pamela Colville, brought an application for judic

Spying legislation designed to tackle terrorism has been used hundreds of times to identify welfare and insurance fraud in Northern Ireland over the past five years, The Irish News reports. The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) was used 591 times by the Department for Communities and 132

The Law Society of Northern Ireland has named Roisin Devlin and Hannah McGrath from the Institute of Professional Legal Studies in Belfast as winners of the Client Consultation Competition 2017.

Irish Foreign affairs minister Charlie Flanagan TD is to deliver the annual Pat Finucane Memorial Lecture in Belfast on Thursday 23 February, Mark Thompson, director of the human rights group Relatives for Justice, has announced. Thompson revealed the Irish Government speaker on Sunday at a vigil at

Police in Northern Ireland are to name and shame suspects who fail to turn up to court by posting ''Wanted" posters on their Facebook page. PSNI Craigavon has even mocked up a wanted poster with one of their own follicly-challenged officers, jokingly claiming he is charged with the grievous crime of

Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire (pictured) has said that legacy investigations should be carried out in chronological order. Mr Brokenshire has been critical of what he calls "the imbalance of the current system of legacy investigations" - words which drew ire from ex-Justice Minister D

Last November, Law Centre (NI) secured a repayment of wages for a Filipino fisherman who was trafficked into Northern Ireland. HMRC found that the client had been underpaid by just over £3,000 during a 10 week period. The client was recruited in the Philippines by a Filipino shipping agency to work

Pictured (l-r): Eamonn Cunningham, IPLS coach Barbara Jemphrey, Joshua McKee, Meghan Kirk and Robyn Butler Trainee solicitors at the Institute of Professional Legal Studies (IPLS) at Queen's University Belfast ranked third in this year's UK Universities Mediation Competition at Jersey Law Institute.

The mother of a pupil attending an all-girls school in north Belfast has been unsuccessful in challenging the Department of Education decision to amalgamate her daughter’s school with an adjacent all-boys school. In the High Court in Belfast, the woman brought an application for judicial review ar