Northern Ireland

The man taking forward the first Northern Ireland legal challenge against the Brexit vote has won an application for legal aid on appeal. Raymond McCord, a prominent victims rights campaigner whose son was killed by loyalist paramilitaries in 1997, lodged an application for judicial review at the Hi

Conor McCormick The current approach to reforming access to justice in children's proceedings should be reconsidered, argues Conor McCormick in a new paper for the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly.

NGOs, community activists, litigators, academics and funders will come together at an international conference on strategic litigation in Belfast later this year. The three-day Litigating for Social Change conference will see delegates consider how strategic litigation can transform lives and enable

Two sisters from Belfast have settled sexual harassment claims against the owner of KFC restaurants for £14,000 and £16,000 respectively with the support of the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland. Kirstie and Courtney McKeever alleged they suffered harassment by a male co-worker at KFC on th

Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire is today holding the first in a series of meetings in Northern Ireland focussed on the Brexit negotiations.

Rachel Toner Belfast and Newtonwards firm Worthingtons Solicitors has announced the recent appointment of Rachel Toner as a commercial solicitor.

Pictured (l-r): Steven Gilliland and Emma Smyth Belfast firm MKB Law has announced the appointment of two new trainee solicitors, Steven Gilliland and Emma Smyth.

Dozens of wanted men evaded arrest between 2011-15 by crossing the Irish border, according to new data published by The Detail. Figures obtained by the investigative news website from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) reveal that 47 police chases ended at the border over the period, with

Darragh Mackin The Northern Ireland Prison Service has been challenged over its decision to refuse to let a man convicted of the murder of PSNI officer Stephen Carroll receive a booklet from the campaign to free him.

A prominent victims rights campaigner has lodged the first legal challenge in Northern Ireland against the UK's decision to leave the European Union. Raymond McCord, whose son was killed by loyalist paramilitaries in 1997, has lodged an application for judicial review at the High Court in Belfast.

A law firm instructed by a number of prisoners at HMP Maghaberry has called for an independent investigation into violent disturbances earlier this week. Belfast firm KRW Law, which is instructed by a number of a number of sentenced and remand prisoners detained in the Roe House segregated wing, iss

The number of prosecutions disposed at Crown Court in Northern Ireland in 2015 fell by a massive 36.4 per cent because of the Department of Justice's legal aid dispute with barristers, new figures show. After an upward trend between 2011-14, the number of prosecutions fell 36.4 per cent from 2,063 i

Gavin Booth The Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland will look into the 1992 shooting of Peter McCormack in Co Down, The Irish News reports.

The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland has allowed an appeal from the decision of an Industrial Tribunal (IT) which dismissed the claim of a Slovakian national with Asperger’s Syndrome for unlawful racial discrimination, unlawful disability discrimination, victimisation, harassment on grounds o

Gerry McAlinden QC, chair of the Bar Council of Northern Ireland Gerry McAlinden QC, chair of the Bar Council of Northern Ireland, has mounted a fierce defence of the judiciary in the pages of the Belfast News Letter.