Northern Ireland

Pictured (l-r): Celia Worthington and Paddy Hopkirk MBE Monte Carlo Rally legend Paddy Hopkirk MBE has visited Worthingtons Solicitors to congratulate the firm on the 10th anniversary of the opening of their Belfast office.

The Attorney General for Northern Ireland has been granted leave to bring prosecution proceedings against a police officer who threatened to arrest a judge. John Larkin QC went before the High Court in Belfast yesterday to apply for the right to bring proceedings against Thomas Anthony Carlin for co

The Department of Justice has told Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Theresa Villiers that it does not have the resources to fund the police investigation into murders allegedly committed by the IRA informant codenamed Stakeknife. Justice Minister David Ford said the UK government must pay for

Steven Agnew MLA Steven Agnew MLA has submitted amendments to the Northern Ireland Executive's Justice (No. 2) Bill in a bid to bring abortion law in line with a High Court judgment last year.

Northern Ireland's Justice Minister David Ford Northern Ireland's Justice Minister David Ford has launched a recruitment competition to appoint a new chairperson and two board members to the Northern Ireland Police Fund (NIPF).

Barristers and solicitors across Great Britain and Ireland who practise in commercial law will flock to Belfast this April for the British Irish Commercial Bar Association's (BICBA) annual conference.

Lord Justice Weir Lord Justice Weir, the presiding judge of the Coroners' Court, has said legacy inquests in Northern Ireland are given a "very low" priority by the Ministry of Defence (MoD).

Health Minister Simon Hamilton The sale of HIV self-testing kits has been legalised in Northern Ireland from today.

The High Court has dismissed an application for judicial review brought by a former heroin addict who argued he had a "secondary case procedural legitimate expectation" to have been consulted by the Department of Justice before they ceased funding for an addiction service. The applicant, Mr Charles

The Attorney General for Northern Ireland has ordered a fresh inquiry into the death of Joseph Campbell, an RUC officer who was shot dead in 1977. Attorney General John Larkin ordered the inquest after family lawyer Fearghál Shiels of Madden & Finucane Solicitors presented fresh evidence, inclu

New legislation could be used to compel an ex-RUC officer to give evidence at an inquest into a missing teenager, a coroner has said. Retired detective superintendent Eric Anderson did not attend a preliminary hearing for the inquest into the disappearance of Arlene Arkinson, who went missing in 199

Neasa Quigley A leading solicitor at Belfast firm Carson McDowell has said that the Northern Ireland renewables sector is at risk of stalling due to various government policy choices.

Northern Ireland's Justice Minister David Ford Northern Ireland's Justice Minister David Ford will appeal against parts of last year's landmark human rights ruling on abortion because of concerns that it "does not fully clarify the law".

Chief Constable George Hamilton The chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has told a human rights conference in Belfast that the "vast majority of cases" relating to the Troubles will not go to trial.

An inquest into whether soldiers acted proportionately in the Loughgall ambush in 1987 is likely to move forward, Belfast Magistrates' Court has heard. A barrister for the Ministry of Defence and the PSNI told the court that he now had a list of the names of the soldiers in Loughgall on that day.