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Belfast firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has advised one of Northern Ireland's largest textile companies, Ulster Carpets, on its new partnership with Mourne Textiles. The new company, called Mourne Weavers, has been aims to expand and develop the export trade and to explore global opportunities for the tw

A senior Conservative politician and law professor has said Prime Minister Boris Johnson must resign if he is unwilling to follow the law. A bill to block a no-deal Brexit was passed on Friday.

Northern Ireland's top legal figures attended a prayer service to mark the start of the new legal year yesterday.

The Bar Council has partnered with a Silicon Valley company to create an app for barristers to report bullying and sexual harassment. Talk to Spot will be rolled out this autumn and follows reports this year of widespread inappropriate behaviour at the bar.

A city is to begin fining people for failing to weed the pavement outside their homes. Sandy Evrard, mayor of Belgium's smallest city, Mesen, has sent its citizens a letter telling them they face a €125 fine (£112) if they avoid weeding, collecting litter or picking up dog mess, VRT repor

The Court of Appeal in Belfast has found that the Northern Ireland Valuation Tribunal erred in its interpretation of the Rates (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 when it found that ramps were qualifying facilities for the purpose of being granted rates relief under the legislation. Delivering the judgmen

The Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Sir Declan Morgan, has hit out at the "shocking" lack of progress on redress for victims of historical institutional abuse. The late Sir Anthony Hart chaired an inquiry which recommended, in its 2017 final report, that victims should receive compensation.

Business and political leaders gathered under the shadow of Brexit uncertainty for the British Irish Chamber of Commerce annual gala dinner this evening as the Taoiseach provided an update on the Government’s approach to Brexit in the wake of recent developments. Over 450 attendees from the UK

Belfast solicitor Laura Banks, who acted for Siobhan McLaughlin in her UK Supreme Court challenge to the rules governing the payment of a Widowed Parent’s Allowance, was the first of 18 speakers at the recent TEDxStormont event in the Parliament Buildings.

Academics in Dublin, Belfast and London have launched a major new investigation into how any future referendum on the constitutional status of Northern Ireland would best be designed and conducted. An inter-disciplinary working group has been established by academics in the Constitution Unit at UCL,

Northern Ireland firm Mills Selig invited local business leaders and clients to celebrate its 60th year in business at a special event last night.

A couple whose marriage was annulled by the Greek courts because the husband had previously been married to the wife's sister suffered a violation of their article 12 rights, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. Applicants Georgios Theodorou and Sophia Tsotsorou married in 2005, fou

Google has agreed to pay a record $170 million file and to make changes to protect children's privacy on YouTube after regulators said the site illegally collected personal information from children in order to target them with adverts, the New York Times reports. Critics, however, have said the fin

On 18 September 1867, Police Sergeant Charles Brett was shot dead while transporting prisoners, including two members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), from Manchester police court to Bell Vue Gaol.

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