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Les Allamby A landmark challenge to Northern Ireland's abortion laws opened before the UK Supreme Court today and will run until Thursday.

A man who sought to challenge issues of his inheritance by way of judicial review has had his appeal to the Supreme Court dismissed. Patrick Reen argued that the public house which had been established by his great-grandfather in 1860 should have been inherited by him in turn, like his father and gr

The UK Supreme Court has allowed an appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions against the finding of the High Court in Northern Ireland that the DPP’s decision not to remit dishonest witnesses for re-sentencing was contrary to the interests of justice. Overturning the High Court's finding that

Irish businessman Denis O’Brien, who has been involved in a long-running legal battle with public relations firm Red Flag, has lost his appeal for the discovery of the firm’s client. Mr Justice Sean Ryan, president of the Court of Appeal, stated that Mr O’Brien would have had a remedy if Red F

A 54-year-old woman stole more than £525,000 from her employer, law firm Easthams, to pay a scammer who reeled her in through an online dating website. Pamela Wareing has been jailed for 32 months after pleading guilty to theft in Preston Crown Court.

Jonathan Forrester Belfast-based firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has excelled in the rankings of the latest edition of the prestigious legal directory, Legal 500.

An Italian woman has been granted paid sick leave for days she took off to look after her dog, following a landmark court battle. The 53-year-old academic took two days off working at La Sapienza University in Rome in order to look after her English settler, Cucciola, who became unwell.

A debtor has had his appeal to the High Court dismissed in a preliminary hearing, on the basis that he did not have locus standi to appeal an application pursuant to the Personal Insolvency Acts 2012-2015, which was brought by a personal insolvency practitioner in the first instance. Finding in favo

MKB Law is sponsoring Vespa World Days as it comes to Belfast for the first time since the yearly global event started in 1954.

The defence team of a boy being sentenced for criminal damage and assault while detained, or about to be detained, in a Special Care Unit has unsuccessfully argued that convicting the boy of the charges would amount to a double penalty. Finding that the boy had a fair trial, Judge John O’Connor st

Over a hundred business leaders have attended a ByrneWallace conference on the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Katie Buchanan Employment solicitor Katie Buchanan of Worthingtons Solicitors in Belfast writes on a recent employment case in the High Court of England and Wales.

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has said imprisonment should be the “sanction of last resort” in the Irish criminal justice system.

Caoimhe Haughey Caoimhe Haughey, founder and principal of CM Haughey Solicitors in Dublin, argues abortion must be made available in Ireland in line with best medical practice.

Pictured (l-r): Michael King, Lorraine Keown, Fergal Maguire, Alan McAlister, Rachael Gamble and Michael Black Belfast firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has launched a new brand protection team to handle defamation, IP and data protections cases, just months after it was first to establish a specialist cyb