Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland businesses have been invited to complete a survey on their experience of crime in order to shape the future work of the Business Crime Partnership (BCP). The partnership consists of representatives from the Department of Justice, PSNI, Northern Ireland Policing Board, Northern Irela

The management board of the new Law Society Mediation Services (LSMS) has met for the first time.

The PSNI must carry out a criminal investigation into the treatment in custody of the "Hooded Men" in 1971, the Court of Appeal in Belfast has ruled. In their majority ruling, appeal judges added that the treatment of applicant Francis McGuigan and fellow detainee Seán McKenna "would, if it o

Northern Ireland's ban on the purchase of sex has had "minimal to no effect" on demand for paid sex, the number of sex workers or levels of human trafficking for human exploitation, according to research commissioned by the Department of Justice. The Department yesterday published the findings of Qu

The trial of the former British soldier known as "Soldier F" in connection with two murders and four attempted murders on Bloody Sunday in 1972 has been adjourned until December. At a committal hearing in Derry District Court this morning, Judge Barney McElholm granted an adjournment to allow the de

Over 40 members of the legal profession and community/voluntary representatives were welcomed to Law Society House for an event on surrogacy law reforms. The Law Commission of England and Wales is currently considering the legal parentage of children born via surrogacy, the regulation of surrogacy m

A multi-agency task force last year recovered around £1.4 million under confiscation orders, helped rescue dozens of potential victims of modern slavery, carried out thousands of drug seizures and disrupted more than 70 organised crime gangs. The latest Organised Crime Task Force (OCTF) annual

Belfast solicitor John Finucane, the current Lord Mayor of Belfast and son of murdered lawyer Pat Finucane, has been nominated for selection as Sinn Féin's Westminster election candidate in North Belfast. Mr Finucane, partner at Finucane Toner, previously contested the seat for the party in 2

The Court of Appeal in Belfast has reserved judgment on an appeal from an anonymous applicant arguing that the UK cannot leave the EU if it results in the imposition of a hard border. Patricia Coyle, solicitor at Harte Coyle Collins, is representing "JR83", whose case was dismissed by the High Court

The Department of Finance has launched a "full and comprehensive" review of the business rates system in Northern Ireland. A public consultation opened yesterday and will run until 11 November 2019, seeking views on the future direction of the business rating system.

Lawyers from Britain, Jersey, the Isle of Man and Cyprus were welcomed to Belfast for the second meeting of the European Hub of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA).

A legal bid to stop a no-deal Brexit on the basis that it would breach the Good Friday Agreement will be heard by the UK Supreme Court tomorrow. Belfast solicitor Ciaran O'Hare of McIvor Farrell Solicitors said the case brought by victims' rights campaigner Raymond McCord had "moved with unprecedent

A Belfast-based human rights organisation has submitted a complaint against Translink for breaching its equality requirements by failing to consider the impact of facilitating passport checks on its cross-border services. The Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) has submitted a breach of

The High Court in Belfast has dismissed three conjoined applications challenging the UK Government’s Brexit strategy, which the applicants argued would result in a no-deal Brexit and a hard border in breach of the Good Friday Agreement. Finding that the subject matter of the applications was "

A man who was convicted of raping a 91-year-old woman in 2001 has had his application to appeal his conviction for failure to comply with notification requirements under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 refused. Finding that the enhanced notification requirements did not breach Article 7