Northern Ireland

Belfast-based Cleaver Fulton Rankin has launched a new digital skills programme aimed at helping its lawyers learn a range of key business skills. The new programme covers IT, legal technology, marketing and business development, with courses offered at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels.

Pupils from St. Dominic's Grammar School for Girls have won the Northern Ireland heat of the Young Citizens Bar Mock Trial competition and will progress to the UK final at The Old Bailey in May.

The UK Supreme Court has rejected two unionist legal challenges to the lawfulness of the Northern Ireland Protocol. One of the two challenges, which were heard together last year, was brought by a group of senior unionist politicians led by Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) leader Jim Allister and in

Belfast-based McCartan Turkington Breen Solicitors (MTB) raised over £6,600 for its 2022 charity partner, Action Mental Health.

Belfast solicitor Niamh McMonagle of Millar McCall Wylie (MMW) has become one of few solicitors in Ireland to be awarded two data protection qualifications from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). A specialist in employment law, Ms McMonagle is now a Certified Information

Northern Ireland firm Fisher Law has announced the promotion of Lindsey Colgan to partner in the firm. Mrs Colgan, a native of Coleraine, joined the Galgorm Castle-based practice as an apprentice solicitor in 2017.

International law firm DAC Beachcroft has reappointed partner Sean McGahan as the location head of its Belfast office. Mr McGahan, who has led the firm's Belfast office since its inception in 2019, began serving a second three-year term from 1 February 2023.

Young people in Northern Ireland stand to benefit alongside older people from reform of Northern Ireland's age discrimination laws, equalities bodies have emphasised. Speaking at an event aimed at children and young people, the chief commissioner of the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland and t

Northern Ireland’s Court of Appeal has dismissed all grounds of appeal against a 24-year murder sentence. The court found that this sentence was neither excessive nor unlawful and a three-year reduction following a late-stage guilty plea was sufficient, if not “generous”.

The former British soldier who shot and killed an unarmed 23-year-old man on his way to a Gaelic football match has received a fully suspended three-year sentence following his conviction of manslaughter. Former Grenadier Guardsman David Holden, who shot Aidan McAnespie in the back in 1988, is the f

An independent statutory inquiry will be established into the preventability of the Omagh bombing in August 1998, the UK government has announced. The decision follows a ruling by Northern Ireland's High Court in October 2021, which found there was a "plausible case ... that the authorities knew the

The Bar of Northern Ireland has named the National Autistic Society Northern Ireland as its charity partner for 2023. The mission of the National Autistic Society Northern Ireland is to transform lives, change attitudes and create a society that works for around 18,000 autistic people in Northern Ir

Olivia Boyle, solicitor in A&L Goodbody's Belfast office, examines recent case law on sexual harassment in the workplace. Two recent cases relating to sexual harassment in the workplace have highlighted how vital it is that employers are live to this issue and, more specifically, that any allega

Solicitors in Northern Ireland will benefit from a discount on private healthcare services following a new partnership between the Law Society and the Kingsbridge Healthcare Group. The Law Society of Northern Ireland has signed up to the Kingsbridge Membership Club, which allows organisations to off

The former British soldier convicted of manslaughter in relation to the 1988 shooting of Aidan McAnespie will be sentenced tomorrow afternoon. Former Grenadier Guardsman David Holden denied the charge but was found guilty last November after the judge found he gave a “deliberately false accoun