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The Belfast Solicitors Association (BSA) raised almost £1,000 for a local homelessness charity after organising a pub quiz. Six teams competed at The House Pub & Kitchen in Stramillis, which provided the quiz master and nibbles, and raised a total of £926.99 for The Welcome Organisation.

Kirsty Scott Belfast firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin will raise cash for Macmillan Cancer Support at a race night later this month.

The High Court has found that an applicant’s challenge of a decision by the Minister for Justice and Equality, in which she refused to allow him to transfer his sentence from the UK to Ireland, was unarguable, as the Minister was not obliged to accept such transfers, and had not acted unreasonably

Acting Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald Acting Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has announced the commencement of legislation allowing some minor offences to become spent after seven years.

Graeme Bell Dublin-based firm Mason Hayes & Curran (MHC) has appointed Graeme Bell as the new head of the firm’s London office.

The Belfast office of Arthur Cox advised Northern Ireland’s first surfboard manufacturing company in securing a £500,000 investment boost.

Managing partner Ernest J. Cantillon Cantillons Solicitors in Cork has said it is "humbled" by positive remarks about the firm in the recently published Chambers Europe 2016 Legal Rankings.

Lawyers for Boston College say it will fight a subpoena by the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) and the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) to gain access to more of the Belfast Project tapes. The tapes are a record of interviews with former paramilitaries, who agreed to contribute to an oral

Peter Lockhart Belfast firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has announced a 5-a-side ‘mini’ Euros Football Tournament to raise money for charity.

Jessica Simor QC The candidates competing to be the next British judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) have been named, The Guardian reports.

The Law Society of Ireland sought and obtained an order for various sanctions following an incident in which a solicitor, Michael O’Sullivan, withheld money from a client, Mr James Nolan, and failed to furnish a Bill of Costs explaining his fee, a breakdown of money to be returned to Mr Nolan, and

Former Justice Minister Michael McDowell Former Justice Minister Michael McDowell has been elected to Seanad Éireann on the NUI panel.

Politicians from four of Northern Ireland's main parties discussed justice policies at a hustings held by The Bar of Northern Ireland in the Inn of Court at the Royal Courts of Justice in Belfast yesterday.

Law firm McCann Fitzgerald is to sponsor the award of two postgraduate scholarships in Mediation and Conflict Intervention at Maynooth University. The award will pay course fees for two successful applicants to complete the one-year full-time Masters in Mediation and Conflict Intervention delivered

Solicitor Darragh Mackin of KRW Law The United Nations urged the Egyptian government to take "all necessary interim measures" to halt alleged violations of the human rights of Irish citizen Ibrahim Halawa.