Bar Of Northern Ireland

A former Northern Ireland barrister who gave up a 23-year legal career to become a nun five years ago has left the convent after being told she will not be allowed to take her final vows. Elaine Kelly joined the Sisters of the Adoration on the Falls Road in West Belfast in 2014, but left this week a

Northern Ireland's top legal figures attended a prayer service to mark the start of the new legal year yesterday.

The Pro Bono Choir, made up of solicitors, barristers and judges, raised £8,000 for charities Flourish NI and Helping Hand at its annual summer concert.

Northern Ireland barristers have raised a record-breaking £82,500 for AWARE, a leading mental health charity in Northern Ireland.

Barrister Jacqueline Simpson QC and Barbara Creed, partner at A&L Goodbody, are set to deliver the next Women in Law lecture in Belfast. The next event in the lecture series, organised by The Bar of Northern Ireland in conjunction with the Law Society of Northern Ireland, focuses on "Commercial

Prominent barrister Michael Lavery QC, who represented the families of many Bloody Sunday victims at the Saville Inquiry, has passed away at the age of 84. Mr Lavery, who called to the Bar in 1956 and took silk in 1971, retired in 2017 after a six-decade career.

Representatives of the barrister profession on both sides of the border focused on the impact of Brexit on the legal and justice sectors at the seventh annual Joint North South Bar Meeting.

Barrister Sheena Grattan and solicitor Margarita Sloane are set to deliver the first in a new series of Belfast lectures on Women in Law. The first in the series of events, organised by The Bar of Northern Ireland, will take place at the Inn of Court next Friday 29 March, 12.30pm to 2pm.

Young barristers addressed A-level students in Belfast this month on the challenges they've faced while training and working as barristers. Five members of the Young Bar Association (YBA) took part in a panel discussion at the 28th Annual Inter-Schools Sixth Form Law Conference hosted by Methodist C

Two of the most prominent women judges in Ireland and Britain addressed a sold-out Belfast event to mark International Women's Day 2019 last week. Lady Arden of the UK Supreme Court and Ms Justice Finlay Geoghegan of the Supreme Court of Ireland addressed judges, barristers, solicitors and academics

Northern Ireland charities Aware NI and The Welcome Organisation have thanked members of the legal profession for raising £20,000 at a charity concert.

The collapse of the Northern Ireland Executive two years ago has held back efforts to improve gender diversity within the legal profession, barristers have told Irish Legal News. There have been no QC appointments in Northern Ireland in almost five years, and no appointments can currently take place

Leading members of the judiciary and legal profession came together to discuss diversity in legal representation after a Belfast screening of RBG, a new documentary on the life and work of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the US Supreme Court.