Northern Ireland

Pictured (l-r): Danny McKay, James Knight, and John McMahon UK firm Keystone Law has expanded into Belfast through a merger with McMahon McKay, a corporate and commercial firm in Belfast.

Patrick Corrigan Northern Ireland has failed dismally to deal with past human rights violations and to reform its outdated abortion laws, Amnesty International has said in its annual assessment of human rights around the world.

Nearly a third of Northern Ireland's victims of crime did not report the crime to police because they thought it was too trivial or the police would not do anything. The figure emerged in a Department of Justice briefing which sets out findings from the 2015/16 Northern Ireland Crime Survey.

Law Centre (NI) has helped a couple who had been suffering hardship through unnecessary delays in obtaining Child Tax Credit (CTC). They had been granted refugee status a few days after registering their baby’s birth. They made a joint claim for Child Tax Credit soon afterward but were not given a

Belfast firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has announced the appointment of Hilary Griffith to head its corporate team.

Maxine Orr Redundancy within a workplace can arise where there is a diminution or cessation of the type of work that an employee carries out. That can arise as part of a restructuring, or where the duties of the post are redistributed among other staff, writes Maxine Orr.

A party that wants to legalise cannabis in Northern Ireland has been struck off the register of political parties and fined £23,000 for forgetting to file accounts on time. Cannabis is Safer than Alcohol is registered separately in Northern Ireland and Britain but it has failed to meet the requirem

Solicitor Pat Finucane's widow, Geraldine Finucane, has lost her appeal against the UK government's refusal to hold a public inquiry into his 1989 murder. She argued that the previous Labour-led administration had promised an inquiry would be held, and that Prime Minister David Cameron had unlawfull

Professor Paddy Nixon Ulster University has launched a new Legal Innovation Centre with support from global firms Allen & Overy (A&O) and Baker McKenzie.

A £50,000 libel judgment against the Sunday World for referring to a County Down businessman as "a Scrooge" has been overturned by the Court of Appeal in Belfast. The Sunday World wrote in December 2014 that hotelier Gordon Coulter had "been branded a Scrooge for putting his staff on the street a w

A firm facing an investigation related to forensic testing for certain British police forces is not contracted to perform testing in Northern Ireland, the Department of Justice has said. Two men working for Crumlin-based Randox Testing Services (RTS) in Manchester have been arrested on suspicion of

Northern Ireland's youngest coroner, Joe McCrisken, has spoken to the Belfast Telegraph about his life and career. Mr McCrisken, the youngest full-time judicial office holder in Northern Ireland, spoke to Rebecca Black about his background as a barrister and his current work as a coroner - including

The appointment of three judges to Northern Ireland's Court of Appeal has been approved by Her Majesty The Queen. Mr Justice Stephens, Mr Justice Deeny and Mr Justice Treacy will be sworn into office as Lord Justices of Appeal later this year at the Royal Courts of Justice.

The High Court in Belfast declined jurisdiction in the case of a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Inspector who brought an application for judicial review, finding that the matter was not to be treated as one of public law. The inspector, Ms Pamela Colville, brought an application for judic

Spying legislation designed to tackle terrorism has been used hundreds of times to identify welfare and insurance fraud in Northern Ireland over the past five years, The Irish News reports. The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) was used 591 times by the Department for Communities and 132