Northern Ireland

Assistant Chief Constable Will Kerr Assistant Chief Constable Will Kerr of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has announced he will leave the job to join the National Crime Agency.

Mark Orr QC Northern Ireland's Justice Minister Claire Sugden has appointed Mark Orr QC as Presiding Member to the Civil Legal Services Appeal Panels.

At the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow last week, President of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger, reflected on constitutional changes across the UK over the last twenty years, and the role of the UK Supreme Court in relation to devolution cases in particular. Read the full lecture here.

The Probation Board for Northern Ireland (PBNI) has opened a new office in Downpatrick, where it shares the same building as the Youth Justice Agency (YJA).

In the High Court in Belfast, Justice Maguire dismissed two judicial review challenges in Northern Ireland to the way the Government intends to invoke Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union to trigger withdrawal from the EU. In August 2016, two applications for judicial review of the Government&

A legal challenge to Brexit that was rejected by the High Court in Belfast will be appealed all the way to the UK Supreme Court. Solicitor Ciaran O'Hare of McIvor Farrell Solicitors, representing victims' campaigner Raymond McCord, said: "No single precedent exists that categorically proves or dispr

Lord Chief Justice, Sir Declan Morgan County courts and magistrates' courts now exercise jurisdiction throughout Northern Ireland under reforms that took effect yesterday.

Michael Johnston Belfast firm Carson McDowell has been named Regional Law Firm of the Year by The Legal 500 – the second time it has won the accolade in the past three years.

The High Court in Belfast has refused two landmark judicial reviews challenging the UK government's ability to activate Article 50 and withdraw from the European Union. The judicial reviews were brought by victims' campaigner Raymond McCord and a cross-community group of MLAs from Sinn Féin, the SD

Patrick Corrigan, Northern Ireland programme director at Amnesty International Amnesty International has issued a fresh call for reform of Northern Ireland's abortion laws following reports a woman has been charged by police for use of abortion pills.

All eyes will be on Belfast tomorrow morning as the High Court delivers its judgment in a case aimed at preventing Northern Ireland from leaving the European Union. The judicial review lodged by victims' campaigner Raymond McCord argues that the United Kingdom's exit from the EU as a whole would be

A major medical conference hosted by Carson McDowell heard that the medical profession in Northern Ireland is likely to face increasing complaints in the future. Complaints Management: A Practical Guide heard that complaints are likely to increase as budgetary and time pressures take their toll on t

Justice Minister Claire Sugden Northern Ireland's Justice Minister Claire Sugden has commended staff at Hydebank Wood College following the latest inspection reports from the Criminal Justice Inspectorate NI (CJINI) and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP).

The Northern Ireland Court of Appeal (NICA) refused to re-open the appeals of six individuals previously sentenced in joint enterprise murder convictions, advising that the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) was the more appropriate route to follow where the NICA had already dismissed the appea

Justice Minister Claire Sugden Northern Ireland's Justice Minister Claire Sugden has announced court closures planned by her predecessor will no longer go ahead.