Northern Ireland

An application for a judicial review against a Northern Ireland local authority after it named a playground after an IRA hunger striker has been put on hold. ...

The Rt Hon Sir Anthony Campbell's appointment as Independent Assessor of PSNI Recruitment Vetting has been extended by six months. Sir Anthony is responsible for reviewing the ...

Northern Ireland's Justice Minister David Ford has launched a public consultation on the creation of a new offence of domestic abuse. The specific offence would relate to ...

Justice Minister David Ford Northern Ireland's Justice Minister David Ford has said responsibility for a failure to properly fund legacy investigations in Northern Ireland should fall on ...

Victims support group Relatives For Justice (RFJ) will host the Pat Finucane Memorial Lecture in Belfast on Thursday. The lecture is headlined "Victims' right to truth, national ...

The Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone has been awarded £48,750.00 after a Sinn Féin politician posted a defamatory statement about him on Twitter in ...

High Court judge Mr Justice Adrian Colton is expected to replaceLord Justice Weir as presiding judge of the Coroners' Court next week, UTV News reports. Lord Weir ...

David Isaac, chair of the Diversity Steering Group at Pinsent Masons International law firm Pinsent Masons has been ranked one of the top five most inclusive employers ...

The PSNI and Ulster University have launched an online course to promote awareness of cybercrime and what it entails, as well as highlight tools and support available ...

A Sinn Féin MLA has been ordered to pay an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) MP nearly £50,000 in compensation for falsely implying he had harassed and shot ...

The UK's three law commissions have called for a new legal framework for the conduct of elections and referenda in an interim report published today. The report ...

Dawn McKnight, partner in the corporate/commercial teams at Carson McDowell Belfast law firm Carson McDowell has said it expects an increase in M&A activity over the last ...

Pictured (l-r): Barbara Jemphrey, Mary-Jane Byrne, Elise Quigley, Brigid Moore and Ruth Erwin Law students at Queens University Belfast (QUB) have come second in a UK-wide mediation ...