Northern Ireland

Six teams of Northern Ireland barristers raised over £21,000 for mental health charity AWARE by hiking over Slieve Donard in County Down on the weekend.

More than half a dozen law firms have been shortlisted for awards from the LGBT+ magazine GNI MAG. International law firms Pinsent Masons and Allen and Overy have been shortlisted in the Business Contribution to the Community category.

Personal injury and road traffic specialists JMK Solicitors have reported record levels of business in their 15th year of practice. The Belfast- and Newry-based firm has grown its staff by 20 per cent since January to a headcount of nearly 60.

The UK Supreme Court will rule next Wednesday on whether a bakery discriminated against a man on grounds of sexual orientation by refusing to fulfil an order for a cake that read "Support Gay Marriage". In October 2016, the Court of Appeal in Belfast found that Ashers Baking Company had directly dis

Sinn Féin has called on the UK government to "immediately release adequate funding to resource the Lord Chief Justice's Legacy Inquest Plan". The party made the demand as its launched its submission to the public consultation on planned legislation to address the legacy of the conflict.

A woman who contended that the Flags (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2000 breached the Good Friday Agreement 1998, has had her application for judicial review dismissed in the High Court in Belfast. Finding that in introducing the Regulations, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland had fulfille

The processing time for criminal cases before the Northern Ireland courts has slowly begun to decline from its 2016/17 peak, new figures reveal. The latest figures published by the Department of Justice show that the median time for a case to be disposed at all courts was 162 days in 2017/18.

Almost £2 million of criminal assets were seized in Northern Ireland in 2017/18, according to the Organised Crime Task Force's (OCTF) latest annual report. Compared with last year, the seizure of illegal drugs is up by almost 24 per cent and the number of organised crime groups (OCGs) dismantl

The Ministry of Defence has agreed to pay a combined £700,000 in compensation to the the families of two men shot dead on Bloody Sunday in 1972. The family of Gerard McKinney, shot dead at 35, will receive £625,000 in compensation, while the family of Michael McDaid, killed at 20, will r

County Down solicitor Con Lavery has suddenly passed away during a trip to Spain. Mr Lavery, principal solicitor at Con Lavery & Co Solicitors since 2004, had over three decades of experience practising as a solicitor in the Banbridge and Lurgan area.

Some criminal cases are taking more than two years to be dealt with by courts in Northern Ireland, according to new figures. The average time to process a criminal case in 2017/18 was 162 days while there is an 802-day wait to take summons cases through the Crown Court, up 3.4 per cent on last year,

A man who was 17-years-old when he was shot in the face while attending a civil rights march in Derry on 30 January 1972 has been awarded £193,000 in compensation. The man was one of 28 innocent people who were shot by soldiers on Bloody Sunday, 13 of whom were killed or mortally wounded and a

Members of The Bar of Northern Ireland's charity committee organised a coffee morning and cake competition to raise funds for charity today.

Two directors at Cleaver Fulton Rankin Solicitors have been awarded a market-leading diploma in adjudication after training with the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Directors Patrick Fleming, head of dispute resolution and construction, and Aaron Moore have obtained the Diploma in Adj

Northern Ireland's prison population declined by more than two per cent in 2017/18, according to new Department of Justice figures. The latest statistical bulletin reveals that the overall average daily prison population in 2017/18 was 1,439, down 2.2 per cent on the year before.