Northern Ireland

O'Reilly Stewart Solicitors has paid tribute to property lawyer Imelda McMillan on her retirement after 35 years with the Belfast-based firm. The former Law Society of Northern Ireland president has been succeeded as head of the firm's property department by director Janet Williamson.

Shoosmiths has increased salaries for newly-qualified (NQ) lawyers in Northern Ireland by nearly six per cent to £37,500. The UK firm has upped NQ pay by eight per cent — from £90,000 to £97,000 — in London, by five per cent regionally in England to £63,000 and by

A postgraduate student at Queen's University Belfast School of Law has participated in the prestigious 12th Law Schools Global League (LSGL) Summer School in Colombia.

Gateley Legal NI legal director Jonathan Jackson discusses the key insights of a review of Northern Ireland's defamation laws. Published earlier this summer, the Department of Finance’s review of the Defamation Act (NI) 2022 analyses the 2022 Act’s implementation to date and identifies c

Legal action has been commenced against Northern Ireland's Department of Education following a data breach. Personal information relating to hundreds of people was inadvertently disclosed after a spreadsheet was wrongly attached to a mass email.

Solicitor Andrew Magowan has been appointed to the board of the Middletown Centre for Autism (MCA) in Northern Ireland. Mr Magowan is from Northern Ireland but now lives and practises as a solicitor in London.

Tughans has retained its ranking as Northern Ireland's most prolific M&A adviser in the first half of 2024. According to the latest Experian M&A report, there were 112 transactions with a total disclosed value of just under £900 million in the first half of 2024.

Lawyers for the UK government have asked Northern Ireland's Court of Appeal for more time to decide how it will deliver a human rights compliant investigation of the 1998 murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane. Lord Justice Horner last month gave the government a three-week deadline to agree a way

A man who alleged that he was told "we don't serve Protestants" by the landlord of Bittles Bar in Belfast has settled a religious discrimination case for £6,500. The Equality Commission for Northern Ireland supported the man, who has not been named, in bringing the case against John Bittles.

The Irish government has said it may introduce legislation to facilitate its co-operation with the UK's Omagh bombing inquiry, which is now under way. Scottish judge Lord Turnbull yesterday presided over the inquiry's first public hearing at the Strule Arts Centre in Omagh, which dealt with prelimin

EU member states including Ireland may have to consider an individual's rights under the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union before executing UK arrest warrants issued under post-Brexit rules, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has said. The court was asked in March to

The UK government is to abandon an appeal of the Northern Ireland High Court's finding that controversial legacy legislation is in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Labour government has already pledged to "repeal and replace" the previous government's Northern Ireland Troubles

Solicitors joined the annual Belfast Pride parade on Saturday, marching through Belfast city centre in celebration of the LGBT+ community in Northern Ireland.

The UK's Omagh bombing inquiry is to host its first public hearing tomorrow. The preliminary hearing, taking place in the Strule Arts Centre in Omagh, will consider procedural issues relating to the conduct of future public hearings and the inquiry's investigation. No witnesses will be called and no

Northern Ireland's Labour Relations Agency (LRA) marked Belfast Pride Festival 2024 with a panel discussion on the impact of domestic abuse and violence within the workplace, particularly focusing on the LGBTQIA+ community. The 'Safe at Home, Safe at Work' event, featuring panellists from local supp