Northern Ireland

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.

The Pro Bono Choir, made up of solicitors, barristers and judges, has presented a cheque for £3,500 to Alzheimer's Society NI. The funds are the proceeds of the choir's sell-out performance, "A Night in the Museum 2", at the Ulster Museum in Belfast in May.

The number of complaints to the Office of the Prisoner Ombudsman for Northern Ireland more than halved over the past year, according to its latest annual report. A total of 1,953 complaints were received from prisoners in 2017/18, a 55 per cent decrease on the previous year.

Mr Justice McCloskey is set to address Northern Ireland's first immigration law conference in Belfast this November. The judge joins Professor Colin Harvey from Queen's University Belfast on the platform at the event organised by the Immigration Practitioners' Group NI.

The High Court in Belfast has begun hearing three test cases for damages brought on behalf of people who were shot or wounded on Bloody Sunday. Three of 21 civil actions brought by Madden & Finucane Solicitors against the Ministry of Defence were selected as test writs and are being heard now.