Northern Ireland

The UK Supreme Court will hear legal arguments in the “gay cake” case this October. The McArthur family, who run the Ashers Baking Company at the centre of the case, has welcomed news that the court will hold a two-day hearing for legal arguments in the Autumn.

Laura Gillespie Business leaders have just over a year to prepare for major changes in data protection and privacy law, Pinsent Masons has warned.

Martin McAuley The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) has named law graduate Martin McAuley as the party's candidate in North Belfast, where he will compete with Sinn Féin's John Finucane.

Jeremy Corbyn A leaked draft of Labour's general election manifesto includes a commitment to extending abortion rights to women in Northern Ireland.

Ciarán Moynagh and Laura Lacole A humanist couple backed by the British Humanist Association (BHA) have won permission for a judicial review of Northern Ireland authorities for failing to extend legal recognition to humanist marriages.

The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has faced a political backlash following its decision to charge ex-soldier Dennis Hutchings with attempted murder. Mr Hutchings, 75, is accused of killing John-Pat Cunningham, 27, as he ran away from an army patrol in Benburb, Co Armagh in 1974.

The collapse of the Northern Ireland Executive leaves victims of historical child abuse with "no alternative" but to seek redress through the courts, a lawyer has said. Claire McKeegan of Belfast firm KRW Law told the Belfast Telegraph that the political deadlock meant the report of the Historical I

The Bar of Northern Ireland presented a cheque for £22,500 to The Boom Foundation after a year of fundraising events and activities.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is failing to enforce civil injunction orders granted by the Northern Ireland courts, a Belfast-based solicitor has claimed. Solicitor Ciaran O'Hare of McIvor Farrell Solicitors is acting in a judicial review against the PSNI.

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson Lawyers acting for UK victims of Libyan-sponsored terrorism have welcomed Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson's support for their compensation bid.

A woman who was denied leave to remain in the UK after overstaying her six-month visa for almost seven years has had her application for judicial review dismissed in the High Court. The woman argued that the Home Office decision maker had erred in not allowing her case to go to a Tribunal, and that

Jim Allister An MLA has expressed concerns that witnesses in the RHI inquiry could be "gagged" because of rules that allow them to be forced to pay legal fees in certain circumstances, the News Letter reports.

Belfast firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin is set to hold a charity cinema screening of Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge in June. The firm will screen the new released on Thursday 1 June at Movie House Cinemas, Dublin Road, Belfast to raise cash for Barnardos' Northern Ireland.

An 81-year-old man has been unsuccessful in his application for leave to appeal both the severity of his sentence of six years' imprisonment and his conviction for chronic abuse of eight of his children. He argued that the judge had erred in refusing his application to vacate his guilty plea after h

Three more lawyers in the private client team at Cleaver Fulton Rankin have become fully-qualified Trust and Estate Practitioners.