Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland lawyers are preparing to join Lawyers with Pride at Belfast Pride for a fourth year running. Lawyers with Pride was set up in 2016 to “ensure that the LGBT community know that they can access justice without fear or bias”.

Human rights activist Ellen Murray will deliver Amnesty International's annual Belfast Pride lecture this year on the theme of transgender rights. Ms Murray is executive director of not-for-profit organisation TransgenderNI and an international trans human rights consultant focusing on healthcare an

The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has launched a public consultation on its updated policy covering the prosecution of road traffic offences. The policy document explains the approach of the PPS in taking prosecutorial decisions in respect of road traffic offences.

Amnesty International has welcomed a recommendation from the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee that compensation for victims of Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) should progress as quickly as possible through Parliament. A redress scheme was one of the key recommendations of the Historical Insti

The routine fast-tracking of legislation relating to Northern Ireland is "constitutionally unacceptable", a key Westminster committee has said. The House of Lords select committee on the constitution said the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Bill could have been "introduced earlier and proceed

Abortion access and same-sex marriage will be extended to Northern Ireland through secondary UK legislation if a Northern Ireland Executive is not formed by October under plans approved by MPs yesterday. In a free vote, MPs voted by 332-99 and 383-73 to support amendments to the Northern Ireland (Ex

Belfast-based Carson McDowell has announced a year-long partnership with local charity Cancer Fund for Children.

Sir Anthony Hart, the retired High Court judge who chaired the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, has passed away. His 2017 report on abuse at 22 residential homes for children between 1922–95 recommended a redress scheme for abuse survivors, which has still yet to be implemented.

The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) has settled a case against the Department for Communities to back-pay state pension entitlements to a transgender woman. Frances Shields, who received her Gender Recognition Certificate in February 2015 and applied for her State pension in April 2

A student librarian has received a prestigious Ulster University award supported by international law firm Allen & Overy. Geraldine Colgan from Ballyduff, Ashford has become the second recipient of the award, presented annually to the student who achieves the highest marks on the library and inf

The Chief Constable of the PSNI has lost an appeal against the decision that the brother of a 13-year-old boy who was murdered in 1976 had a legitimate expectation that an overarching investigation into collusion would be carried out by an independent police team. Stating that it was the Chief Const

Belfast firm Millar McCall Wylie has announced the appointment of solicitor and former barrister Clare Lenaghan as head of the firm's family and matrimonial law team. Ms Lenaghan, who has more than 25 years' experience as a barrister and has now qualified as a solicitor, will lead the established te

The UK Government has published a summary of responses to the consultation on the legacy of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The summary document has been produced after analysis of over 17,000 responses to the consultation, which was launched last May and ran until September.

The long standing test concerning the legal possession of land has been challenged in the landmark case of Thorpe v Frank [2019] EWCA Civ 150, writes Stuart Nevin, associate, A&L Goodbody. The Court of Appeal found that repaving a forecourt was enough to obtain possession in a claim for ‘a

Cleaver Fulton Rankin has conducted research into the positive contribution the firm and its employees make in wider society. As a result it has launched its first Responsible Business Report highlighting the firm's commitment to the environment, its clients and the wider community.