Public Sector Law

New climate change reporting duties for Northern Ireland public bodies will come into operation in May 2024. Regulations laid in line with the landmark Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 will require the first reports to be submitted in October 2025.

Barrister Oonagh Buckley has been appointed as secretary-general of the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. Ms Buckley, currently the interim chair of An Bord Pleanála, will take up the role from 2 September 2023 when outgoing secretary-general Mark Griffin completes hi

The Department for Infrastructure has confirmed it will not appeal a Court of Appeal ruling that it broke EU competition rules in the awarding of contracts for road resurfacing. Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon told MLAs yesterday that the Department had considered "whether parts of the judgme

UK law firm TLT has won an expanded role on the National Legal Services Framework, which can be accessed by all police forces and local authorities in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The firm, which was first appointed to the framework in 2009, has retained its property role (residential, comme

Public sector lawyer Claire Archbold has been appointed as honorary professor of practice in public law at Queen's University Belfast. Professor Archbold returns to the university, having been a former academic, while continuing in her role as deputy departmental solicitor for the Northern Ireland C

The nurses strike has been suspended following intervention by the Labour Court, which investigated the dispute in the exercise of its statutory powers under the Industrial Relations Act 1990. Making a number of recommendations and setting out the details of an Enhanced Nursing Practice salary scale

ByrneWallace has been named Ireland's best public sector law firm for the second year in a row at The Excellence in Business Awards, presented annually by Public Sector Magazine. The firm has more than 80 solicitors focussed on practising in public sector law.