Representatives of the barrister profession on both sides of the border focused on the impact of Brexit on the legal and justice sectors at the seventh annual Joint North South Bar Meeting.
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Barrister Sheena Grattan and solicitor Margarita Sloane are set to deliver the first in a new series of Belfast lectures on Women in Law. The first in the series of events, organised by The Bar of Northern Ireland, will take place at the Inn of Court next Friday 29 March, 12.30pm to 2pm.
Young barristers addressed A-level students in Belfast this month on the challenges they've faced while training and working as barristers. Five members of the Young Bar Association (YBA) took part in a panel discussion at the 28th Annual Inter-Schools Sixth Form Law Conference hosted by Methodist C
Two of the most prominent women judges in Ireland and Britain addressed a sold-out Belfast event to mark International Women's Day 2019 last week. Lady Arden of the UK Supreme Court and Ms Justice Finlay Geoghegan of the Supreme Court of Ireland addressed judges, barristers, solicitors and academics
Northern Ireland charities Aware NI and The Welcome Organisation have thanked members of the legal profession for raising £20,000 at a charity concert.
The collapse of the Northern Ireland Executive two years ago has held back efforts to improve gender diversity within the legal profession, barristers have told Irish Legal News. There have been no QC appointments in Northern Ireland in almost five years, and no appointments can currently take place
Leading members of the judiciary and legal profession came together to discuss diversity in legal representation after a Belfast screening of RBG, a new documentary on the life and work of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the US Supreme Court.