Northern Ireland

Civil proceedings linked to the Troubles will soon be allowed to resume in Northern Ireland but inquests will remain blocked for at least a while longer, under UK government plans revealed yesterday. Northern Ireland secretary Hilary Benn yesterday said he would bring a remedial order to Westminster

Disney is facing legal proceedings in connection with a TV series which depicts the 1972 murder of Jean McConville. Belfast firm Phoenix Law is acting for prominent Irish republican Marian Price, who is depicted shooting Ms McConville in Say Nothing, a historical drama produced by FX and released la

Belfast solicitor Jude Copeland has been named winner of the Legal Representation Award at the GNI MAG Awards 2024.

Northern Ireland's justice minister has applied a "temporary sticking plaster" to the criminal legal aid system and is preoccupied with "ideologically-driven policy experimentalism", the Bar of Northern Ireland has said. Naomi Long yesterday told the Northern Ireland Assembly that she had accepted t

Northern Ireland firm Carson McDowell has welcomed its largest-ever intake of trainee solicitors.

Belfast-based barrister Michael Bready has been named as the only arbitrator from Northern Ireland on the new Private Arbitration Court. The new alternative dispute resolution (ADR) platform has been launched by Hunt ADR, an Essex-based provider of mediation and arbitrator services, and The Barriste

NOW Group has been named as the Law Society of Northern Ireland's charity of the year.

A long-awaited review of Northern Ireland's criminal legal aid system has recommended an immediate 16 per cent increase in legal aid fees. Judge Tom Burgess was appointed last year to carry out a fundamental review of the criminal legal aid system and presented his findings to the Department of Just

Jacqui Durkin has been reappointed as chief inspector of criminal justice in Northern Ireland. Ms Durkin has over 30 years' experience in the justice system, having held a number of senior leadership roles in operations and corporate services in what was then the Northern Ireland Court Service, incl

Criminal justice bodies in Northern Ireland have too readily used "transformation" as a pretext for cuts which have sometimes increased pressure for other bodies, a review has found. Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland this week published a strategic overview of transformation in Northern I

The UK government's decision to withdraw a funding grant from Belfast rap trio Kneecap has been ruled unlawful.

Proposals to improve the experience of services for victims and witnesses of crime in Northern Ireland have gone out for consultation. The Department of Justice is seeking the views of the public as it develops its Victims and Witnesses of Crime Bill.

Colin Mitchell has taken up post as president of the Law Society of Northern Ireland.

Taylor Muldoon has been awarded The Lord Kerr Scholarship by Queen's University Belfast School of Law. The annual scholarship was established in memory of Baron Kerr of Tonaghmore, law alumnus of Queen's in 1969, former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and Justice of the Supreme Court of the U

Northern Ireland's enduring powers of attorney (EPA) framework is "outdated" and in need of urgent reform, former justice minister Claire Sugden has said. Ms Sugden, who chairs the Northern Ireland Assembly's All-Party Group on Ageing and Older People, told ministers to consider introducing somethin