Northern Ireland

Former solicitor and judge Greg McCourt has been appointed to scrutinise reports of searches and seizures carried out across the UK without judicial approval. Mr McCourt spent over three decades in private practice in Bangor prior to spending over a decade as a district judge in Northern Ireland.

Suzanne Rice, president of the Law Society of Northern Ireland, has addressed an American Bar Association (ABA) conference in Oxford on the themes of good government and the rule of law.

The Department of Justice has announced a £200,000 capital funding package for voluntary search and rescue groups in Northern Ireland. The funding is in addition to the revenue funding provided by the Department on an annual basis, which totals £86,000 this year.

Barrister Nicole Lappin has been appointed as the chief commissioner to the Board of the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland. Mrs Lappin, who is qualified to practise north and south of the border, will hold the post for a five-year term ending 31 July 2024.

Motorists have been fined more than £4 million over the past four years for driving in Belfast's bus lanes. A third-party contractor uses fixed CCTV cameras and a mobile CCTV camera vehicle to record unauthorised vehicles illegally driving in bus lanes.

Belfast solicitor Laura Banks, who acted for Siobhan McLaughlin in her UK Supreme Court challenge to the rules governing the payment of a Widowed Parent’s Allowance, will deliver a TEDx talk later this month. TEDx events are independently-organised community events where speakers present ideas

Jill Gracey, senior associate at A&L Goodbody in Belfast, considers the issue of holiday pay from the perspective of employers. Almost every employer in Northern Ireland will be aware of the 'PSNI Holiday Pay case' as it progresses through the Northern Ireland courts.

Staff at Mills Selig raised £630 for local suicide prevention charity PIPS after a six-hour spin-a-thon outside their Belfast city centre office. PIPS (Public Initiative for Prevention of Suicide and Self Harm) provides support to people who are considering or have considered ending their own

Newtownwards and Belfast-based Worthingtons Solicitors has named Extern Group as its charity partner of the year.

Nicholas Nolan, solicitor in the commercial property division at O'Reilly Stewart in Belfast, examines the legal implications of using flexible workspaces as opposed to more traditional leases. Establishing a new business can be a daunting prospect for many practical and financial reasons, one of th

A committal hearing in the prosecution of the former British soldier known as "Soldier F" in connection with two murders and four attempted murders on Bloody Sunday in 1972 will take place next month. Solicitor Ciaran Shiels of Madden & Finucane Solicitors, representing the families of 11 people

Former PSNI chief constable Sir Hugh Orde has said he is "still furious" about the 2014 closure of the Historical Enquiries Team (HET), which he said should have been allowed to complete its work. In an interview with The Irish Times, the former police chief, who stood down in 2009, challenged the f

Lawyers joined the annual Belfast Pride parade in an organised bloc for a fourth consecutive year on Saturday.

The Department of Justice has relaunched its campaign to raise awareness of paramilitary-style attacks and their impact on victims, families and wider society. The "Ending the Harm" campaign was first launched in October 2018 and tells the story of a paramilitary-style shooting from the point of vie

People found guilty of crimes linked to terrorism, paramilitarism and organised crime groups could now see their sentences reconsidered under the unduly lenient sentence (ULS) scheme. As of yesterday, almost 100 additional offences linked to terrorism, organised crime and paramilitarism are included