Northern Ireland

An application for a judicial review against a Northern Ireland local authority after it named a playground after an IRA hunger striker has been put on hold. The High Court in Belfast yesterday heard that Newry and Mourne District Council and the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland would oppose

The Rt Hon Sir Anthony Campbell's appointment as Independent Assessor of PSNI Recruitment Vetting has been extended by six months. Sir Anthony is responsible for reviewing the appeals of candidates against decisions of the police vetting panel, where it deems a candidate unsuitable for appointment t

Northern Ireland's Justice Minister David Ford has launched a public consultation on the creation of a new offence of domestic abuse. The specific offence would relate to patterns of coercive and controlling behaviour in intimate relationships.

Justice Minister David Ford Northern Ireland's Justice Minister David Ford has said responsibility for a failure to properly fund legacy investigations in Northern Ireland should fall on the shoulders of the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) and not the Department of Justice.

Victims support group Relatives For Justice (RFJ) will host the Pat Finucane Memorial Lecture in Belfast on Thursday. The lecture is headlined "Victims' right to truth, national security & dealing with the past: When does legitimate state secrecy become cover-up?"

The Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone has been awarded £48,750.00 after a Sinn Féin politician posted a defamatory statement about him on Twitter in May 2014. Philip Flanagan, a Sinn Féin MLA, published a tweet about Thomas Elliot MP, a member of the Ulster Unionist Party.

High Court judge Mr Justice Adrian Colton is expected to replaceLord Justice Weir as presiding judge of the Coroners' Court next week, UTV News reports. Lord Weir took on the role on a temporary basis following the retirement of senior coroner John Leckey last year.

David Isaac, chair of the Diversity Steering Group at Pinsent Masons International law firm Pinsent Masons has been ranked one of the top five most inclusive employers in the 2016 Stonewall Workplace Equality Index.

The PSNI and Ulster University have launched an online course to promote awareness of cybercrime and what it entails, as well as highlight tools and support available to everyone to stay safe in the virtual world. Detective Chief Inspector Douglas Grant, from the PSNI’s Cyber Crime Centre, has bee

A Sinn Féin MLA has been ordered to pay an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) MP nearly £50,000 in compensation for falsely implying he had harassed and shot people. Mr Justice Stephens, sitting in the High Court in Belfast, ruled that Phil Flanagan's tweet about Tom Elliott's conduct during his career a

The UK's three law commissions have called for a new legal framework for the conduct of elections and referenda in an interim report published today. The report comes off the back of the commissions' joint project on electoral law, dealing with 17 major statutes and 30 sets of regulations and conclu

Justice Minister David Ford The Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 will come into force in Northern Ireland this Spring, Justice Minister David Ford has said.

Attorney General John Larkin QC The appeal by Ashers Bakery Company against a high-profile discrimination ruling has been adjourned for three months.

Dawn McKnight, partner in the corporate/commercial teams at Carson McDowell Belfast law firm Carson McDowell has said it expects an increase in M&A activity over the last year to continue.

Pictured (l-r): Barbara Jemphrey, Mary-Jane Byrne, Elise Quigley, Brigid Moore and Ruth Erwin Law students at Queens University Belfast (QUB) have come second in a UK-wide mediation competition.