Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland’s High Court has awarded £50,000 in damages against the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust and a consultant neurologist who negligently performed an unnecessary medical ...

Northern Ireland councils are to be given new powers to prepare and publish planning application validation checklists. The Planning (General Development Procedure) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2024 ...

Employment lawyer Mark McAllister has been appointed as chief executive of the Labour Relations Agency for Northern Ireland. Mr McAllister, the LRA's director of employment relations services ...

Northern Ireland firm Paschal O’Hare Personal Injury Solicitors has welcomed Andrew Irwin to its team. Mr Irwin, who qualified as a solicitor in 2017 following his graduation ...

The UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) is expected to rule by the end of the year on a case brought by Northern Ireland journalists alleging unlawful police ...

The Irish Centre for European Law (ICEL) at Trinity College Dublin has appointed Robert McTernaghan BL as assistant director for Northern Ireland. Mr McTernaghan practises in both ...

Tim Carson places the statutory review of the Defamation Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 in context. Midway through the Long Vacation, the Northern Ireland Department of Finance quietly ...

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has been slapped with a £750,000 fine over its unprecedented data breach last year. The force inadvertently published the names, ...

Northern Ireland's Department of Justice has been urged to publish the findings of a review of criminal legal aid which was completed in the summer. Judge Tom ...

Global law firm Clyde & Co welcomed representatives from Northern Ireland's insurance industry to Tesla's flagship centre in Belfast for a unique event discussing the barriers ...

The UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has today begun examining the PSNI surveillance complaint brought by investigative journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey. The two journalists were ...

The Bar of Northern Ireland is looking for its new charity partner for 2025/26. Every year, the Bar's charity committee undertakes a number of fundraising initiatives in ...

A new action plan to address child criminal exploitation (CCE) in Northern Ireland has been launched. A four-page document sets out the cross-departmental, multi-agency plan to improve ...

Dr Kevin Brown and Dr David Capper have been appointed as professors in Queen's University Belfast School of Law. Professor Brown is an expert in criminal justice ...

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has renewed calls for an independent investigation into the 2001 murder of Sunday World journalist Martin O'Hagan. Mr O'Hagan, who was ...