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Pictured (l-r): Jude Copeland, Ciarán Moynagh, Jill Minne, Monye Anyadike-Danes QC and Conor McCormick Members of the legal profession celebrated sexual diversity at a special event for LGBT students hosted by Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF).

Alison Donaldson Donaldson Legal Consulting (DLC) has partnered with international law firm Fieldfisher to provide services worldwide, The Irish News reports.

Public health minister Aileen Campbell Women from Northern Ireland can now access abortion services free of charge through Scotland’s NHS.

Northern Ireland's Director of Public Prosecutions has confirmed that women who disclose a previously unreported rape to tax authorities risk prosecution, The Guardian reports. Charities raised concern this year that women could fall foul of section 5(1) of the Criminal Law Act (Northern Ireland) 19

The decision by the PSNI to not take further steps to investigate the question of identifying and prosecuting those responsible for criminal acts during the interrogation of the Hooded Men, has been quashed in the High Court in Belfast. Delivering the judgment, Mr Justice McGuire found that the deci

Conal McGarrity

Conal McGarrity Dungannon-based P.A. Duffy & Co. Solicitors has announced the appointment of Conal McGarrity as one of the firm's directors.

Patrick Brown Tughans is among 15 law firms providing pro bono legal advice to sports organisations in Northern Ireland through the Legal Panel Framework.

Lawyers representing the family of one of the Guildford Four have written to the senior coroner for Surrey to request the original inquest into the Guildford pub bombings is reopened. Belfast firm KRW Law is instructed by Ann McKearnan, the sister of Gerry Conlon, who was wrongly imprisoned for 15 y

Prisoners in Northern Ireland have received compensation payouts worth over £700,000 in five years, the Belfast Telegraph reports. More than 1,800 injury claims have been submitted since 2013 resulting in payments of £696,348, according to figures released under Freedom of Information (FOI) laws.

Northern Ireland barristers bested their solicitor colleagues in a charity football match to raise cash for mental health charity Inspire. The Belfast Solicitors Association (BSA) failed to claim the inaugural BSA Annual Inspire Charity Cup after losing 4-2 to The Bar of Northern Ireland, but thanke

Two Belfast solicitors are suing Irish businessman Denis O'Brien for libel over alleged claims their independent report on Irish media ownership was paid for by the IRA, The Times reports. Gavin Booth and Darragh Mackin of KRW Law were two of four authors of the Report on the Concentration of Media

A former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland has spoken about his near escape from an IRA car bomb as he backed a bid to secure Libyan compensation for IRA victims. Lord Carswell was addressing the House of Lords during a debate on UUP Lord Empey's bill providing for compensation for UK victims o

Belfast-based O'Reilly Stewart Solicitors has helped to raise over £4,000 for cancer charities. The firm was one of a number of local businesses which contributed raffle prizes to a fundraising evening in Newtownabbey on Thursday.

A judge has said the treatment underwent by the Hooded Men would probably be called torture today, in what has been described by their solicitor as a "truly momentous" moment. Mr Justice Maguire, sitting in the High Court in Belfast, dismissed a lawsuit which argued the state was in breach of a lega