Thousands of errors have been made in the administration of Northern Ireland's criminal courts in the past few years, a report has found. Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland today published the findings of a new inspection of criminal court administration.

A&O Shearman's Belfast office has raised £45,800 for local charity Friends of the Cancer Centre through a two-year community fundraising and volunteering partnership. The charity, which is based at the heart of the Northern Ireland Cancer Centre at Belfast City Hospital, has been supportin

Belfast-based Francis Hanna & Co Solicitors has welcomed newly-qualified solicitors Hannah Newburn and Sophie Jones. Ms Newburn graduated from Queen's University Belfast School of Law in 2018 and has worked as a paralegal in the firm since February 2021, before securing a place at the Institute

Northern Ireland’s High Court has refused leave to challenge by way of judicial review s.4(5) of the Northern Ireland Act 1988, which contains the mechanism for cross-community voting. Delivering judgment for the High Court, Mr Justice David Scoffield stated: “The system adopted falls sq

Dr Sarah Arduin has been appointed as assistant professor in EU law at Trinity College Dublin as a result of a partnership between the university and Matheson. Trinity and Matheson last year launched the partnership which supports Trinity Law School in the teaching and research of EU law.

Law student Jordan Wilson has been awarded the 2024 Pat Finucane Memorial Aisling Education Bursary. Mr Wilson, who is studying law at Queen's University Belfast, was presented with the bursary by Peadar Madden of Madden & Finucane Solicitors.

A first-of-its-kind report on business and human rights in Northern Ireland has been produced by researchers at Queen's University Belfast School of Law. The Northern Ireland Business and Human Rights Index Report provides an assessment of corporate implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Bus

A bronze bust of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo is to be unveiled at the Irish Centre for Human Rights (ICHR) at the University of Galway.

Talking with Joan Crawford, the chief executive of the Legal Aid Board, is a refreshing engagement with positivity. It’s an approach she clearly brings to the office as well as to her many sporting and social interests. The media frequently highlights the challenges facing the legal aid sector

Pro bono work has been "mainstreamed into the Irish legal culture" — but that was not the case until relatively recently, FLAC chief executive Eilis Barry points out. When Ms Barry joined the legal charity FLAC in 2016, Éamonn Conlon SC, then a partner in A&L Goodbody LLP, had just

At the beginning of this month, 285 people seeking international protection were moved from a makeshift campsite outside the International Protection Office (IPO) in Dublin’s Mount Street. Weeks later, 55 asylum seekers set up camp along the Grand Canal just hours after another tent clearance.

The adoption this week of the UK’s controversial Safety of Rwanda Bill generated ripples (or rather waves) of concern that reached far beyond Britain’s shores. One of those most concerned was Michael O’Flaherty, the Irish human rights lawyer who has just been appointed Council of E