Northern Ireland

Pictured (l-r): Paddy Mullarky, Imelda McMillan, Joe Moore Patrick Mullarkey has joined Belfast firm O’Reilly Stewart Solicitors as a clinical negligence partner, the firm has announced.

A woman has been awarded over £50,000 in damages after another driver drove into the back of her car, resulting in £3,000 worth of repairs. In the High Court in Belfast, evidence was adduced that the woman was impecunious, was unable to foot the bill for the repairs; and that she could not afford

Attorney General John Larkin QC Northern Ireland's Attorney General John Larkin QC will give a lecture at Clough Non-Subscribing Meeting House in Co Down next week.

Over 12,000 people joined a Belfast demonstration calling for the implementation of an Irish Language Act over the weekend.

Putting the needs of children at the centre of the Justice system was one of the key themes discussed at a conference organised and hosted by the Law Society of Northern Ireland.

Kevin Winters KRW Law has been nominated for two prestigious Legal Aid Practitioners Group (LAPG) awards.

The Bar of Northern Ireland's charity committee has named The Welcome Organisation as its 2017-18 Charity of the Year.

Barra McGrory QC has announced plans to step down as Northern Ireland's Director of Public Prosecutions in September 2017. Mr McGrory has informed Attorney General John Larkin QC of his decision, which will prompt a competition to appoint a successor.

The final version of Labour's general election manifesto includes a watered-down pledge to work with the Northern Ireland Assembly on abortion. A leaked draft of the election manifesto had said: “Labour will continue to ensure a woman’s right to choose a safe, legal abortion – and we will legi

A 38-year-old man being held on remand died in Maghaberry Prison this morning. The Northern Ireland Prison Service confirmed that investigations have been launched by the PSNI, the Coroner and the Prisoner Ombudsman.

Michael King Cyber criminals are increasingly seeing law firms as lucrative targets, the head of Cleaver Fulton Rankin's cyber risk unit has warned.

Legal professionals hit the ground running as Ian Huddleston, president of the Law Society (right) looks on The Law Society of Northern Ireland is confident its charity walk/run for Marie Curie Northern Ireland has smashed its funding target.

Pictured (l-r): Pat O’Hagan (CIArb); Andrew Singer BL; Jarlath Kearney (CIArb); and Julie-Ann McCaffrey (Cleaver Fulton Rankin) Belfast firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has been thanked by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) for hosting a recent construction mediation masterclass for CIArb me

Seven Northern Ireland lawyers raised over £7,000 for a charity working to stop false imprisonment in Kenya by going behind bars in Downpatrick County Museum Jail. The International Justice Mission (IJM) fundraising initiative saw the lawyers locked up and challenged to raise a "bail" amount of £5

Anna McClimonds An associate at Cleaver Fulton Rankin has been shortlisted for a young leadership award.