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Northern Ireland commercial law firm Tughans has announced a charity partnership with Sands, the UK's leading pregnancy and baby loss charity. Sands provides vital support to anyone affected by pregnancy loss or the death of a baby, whilst also funding pioneering research to save babies’

Belfast firm O'Reilly Stewart has welcomed Dominic McCasland and Shay Maguire as its first-ever degree apprentices. A degree apprenticeship is a work-based training programme which provides an alternative route to getting a university degree, where apprentices complete their course alongside paid pe

Legal and tax advisory firm Orbitus has launched a new HR advisory division led by Jennifer O'Brien. In her new role as head of HR, Ms O’Brien will provide companies and employers nationwide with specialist HR services and support.

Coroners in Northern Ireland will be able to investigate some deaths abroad under proposed new legislation. Naomi Long, the justice minister, yesterday published her plans for coronial investigations into deaths abroad, which seek to put families at the centre of the process.

Solicitor Paul Mageean is to serve a third three-year term as chief parole commissioner for Northern Ireland. Parole commissioners help to make decisions on the release or otherwise of those serving extended or indeterminate sentences and in relation to the revocation of licences and recall to priso

Irish language group Conradh na Gaeilge has applied for leave to formally intervene in a legal challenge to the erection of dual-language signage at Grand Central Station in Belfast. The group, which is separately bringing judicial review proceedings over the Northern Ireland Executive and communiti

Solicitor Deirdre-Ann Barr has been reappointed as chairperson of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS). Ms Barr was previously a corporate partner at Matheson and later served as the firm's head of risk and then as its general counsel.

The High Court has dismissed proceedings brought by a serial litigant against the Courts Service of Ireland and has granted an Isaac Wunder order against him. Delivering judgment for the High Court, Mr Justice David Nolan determined that the plaintiff’s proceedings were frivolous, vexatious an

A prisoner accused of threatening to shoot an officer after being served a jacket potato for lunch has gone on trial. Nicholas Brock, 57, a far-right sympathiser from Berkshire, England is currently serving a sentence for possessing terrorist materials. He is alleged to have threatened to kill a pri

Via the Courts Service: "Welcome to the 36 new judicial assistants who have joined us this month.

Belfast law firm Edwards Solicitors has said it is extremely disappointed and frustrated over the failure to make an offer of compensation to thousands of officers and staff involved in the PSNI data breach. In a review hearing yesterday, the High Court was told that despite a business case for a un

A Belfast student has settled her disability discrimination case against Translink for £7,500 after Glider drivers repeatedly failed to accommodate her needs. Rosie Pidgeon, who uses an electric wheelchair, regularly travels on the Glider to and from her college course at Millfield campus in B

Ireland should have a compensation scheme for miners who suffered illness due to poor working conditions and work systems, according to Moloney & Co. Solicitors. The injuries workers suffered included, coal workers pneumoconiosis, chronic bronchitis, chronic pulmonary disease, silicosis, industr

Beauchamps LLP has announced the appointment of Peter Curran and Darragh Blake as senior partners. Mr Curran was head of the all-island projects and procurement group at Eversheds Sutherland. A commercial lawyer with over 25 years’ experience, he has advised on some of the most significant pro

Applications for Irish passports from the UK have exceeded 20,000 per month since January, with figures indicating demand could set a new annual record. Data from the Department of Foreign Affairs shows that almost 82,000 applications have been lodged from Britain this year, alongside 87,500 from No