Northern Ireland’s Court of Appeal has quashed a man’s convictions for the murder of four British Army officers and membership of a proscribed organisation following its conclusion that the verdict reached in his 1976 trial was unsafe. Delivering judgment for the Court of Appeal, Lady Ch

The UK government has announced plans to develop an official history of the Troubles, with up to five historians to be granted privileged access to UK state archives. Lord Bew, from a northern unionist background, and Dr Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid, from Cork, have been picked by ministers t

A new report on "state impunity" for human rights violations during the Troubles is to be launched in Dublin next week. The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the University of Oslo convened an international expert panel on impunity in response to the announcement of the UK government's controvers

A new all-party group on access to justice has been established in the Northern Ireland Assembly to provide an opportunity for the legal professions to engage with and inform MLAs on key issues. The Law Society of Northern Ireland and the Bar of Northern Ireland briefed MLAs at its inaugural meeting

Dr Mariza Avgeri, a graduate of Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology's PhD programme, has been named joint winner of the prestigious European Law Faculties Association (ELFA) award for the best doctoral thesis on European law for 2023. The ELFA thesis award "seeks to stimulate and recog

A rare posthumous presidential pardon is to be granted to two men convicted and executed in relation to an 1882 murder following research by Dr Niamh Howlin. Sylvester Poff and James Barrett were convicted of the murder of Thomas Browne in October 1882 and executed in January 1883.

In the latest episode of the University of Galways's Human Rights Podcast, LLM student Julia Collins hosts Professor Ray Murphy, program director of the LLM in peace operations and humanitarian law. Together, they discuss children and armed conflicts, focussing on the recruitment of children and the

Professor Suzanne Kingston is to deliver UCD Sutherland School of Law's John M Kelly Lecture 2024. She was appointed as a judge of the General Court of the European Union in 2022. This year's lecture will be a major part of the celebration of 10 years in the Sutherland School of Law building on the

Joanna Robinson is used to long and demanding journeys. The partner at Pinsent Masons in Belfast is already preparing for the Chicago Marathon in October, having completed her first such event in Dublin last year. On the promise, she rather ruefully recalls that it was going to be a very flat route

As mergers, acquisitions and strategic representation arrangements have altered the Irish legal scene, the Big Four accountants haven’t been slow to see the opportunity to transform themselves from audit firms to multidisciplinary professional services operations. Having made their first foray

The cost-of-living crisis, a protracted war in Ukraine and a vicious conflict in the Middle East are among the emergencies that have meant a stressful year for many of us. Some upcoming respite over the Christmas and New Year break will be welcome. Sadly, though, that won’t be the case for eve

Time is something of a scarce commodity for solicitor Susan Martin. Like the principal of any independent law firm, she has been dealing with the inescapable practicalities of life that kick in at this time of year — a list of demands that were somewhat reduced when she recently completed her