Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland’s High Court has refused to appoint a McKenzie friend in family law proceedings on the basis that she attempted to inappropriately influence the court and lacked a basic understanding of practice and procedure. Delivering judgment for the High Court, Mr Justice David McFarland

Northern Ireland firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has appointed Sinead Stewart as a director in its banking and finance team. With over 17 years’ experience, Ms Stewart advises a wide range of financial institutions and borrowers in relation to general corporate lending, real estate finance, develop

A new public awareness campaign is drawing attention to Northern Ireland's new bans on so-called up-skirting, down-blousing and cyber-flashing. The Department of Justice launched the "Don't do it. Don't tolerate it" campaign to raise awareness of the new offences in the Justice (Sexual Offences and

A former head of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and an English human rights lawyer are among four new appointments to the UK government's controversial legacy body. Lindsay Todd, Kathleen Russ, Rogelio Alonso and Professor Brice Dickson have been appointed as non-executive commissioner

Northern Ireland firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has promoted six lawyers across five of its specialist legal teams. The recent appointments include the promotion of Nathan Campbell to associate director within the employment and immigration department, Shane Conlan to associate director in the commercia

Providing more support for litigants in person would help to ease pressure on Northern Ireland's family courts, according to new research from Ulster University. Two reports produced by Ulster University School of Law with funding from the Nuffield Foundation set out recommendations which researcher

Progress on important human rights issues in Northern Ireland is at a virtual standstill amid the continued absence of devolved government, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) has said. The watchdog yesterday published its annual human rights statement at an event in Stormont, which

Two Ulster University postgraduate students have been awarded a prestigious Allen & Overy (A&O) award recognising talent in the field of librarianship and information management. Sinead Cooney, a senior library assistant in Roscommon Library Service headquarters, and Johanna Brennan, a libra

Proposed changes to Northern Ireland's planning regulations have been put out to a public consultation. The Department for Infrastructure is consulting on proposed revisions and changes to the Planning (Development Management) Regulations (NI) 2015 is launched as part of its planning improvement pro

A&L Goodbody has renewed a sponsorship deal with Ulster Rugby, with the A&L Goodbody Lounge at Kingspan Stadium continuing for a further two years.

An Oireachtas committee has called on the Irish government to bring an inter-state case against the UK in the European Court of Human Rights in relation to its controversial legacy law. The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023, which ends criminal investigations and civil c

Northern Ireland’s Court of Appeal has refused John Miller leave to appeal his conviction for the murder of his fiancée Charlotte Murray. Delivering judgment for the Court of Appeal, Lady Chief Justice Dame Siobhan Keegan determined that the trial judge had appropriately decided to leav

No prosecutions will be brought against 16 people referred by the investigation into the Provisional IRA informer codenamed "Stakeknife", Northern Ireland's Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has said. The decisions, which concern murders committed between 1981 and 1993, follow the death earlier this

There remain significant barriers to abortion access in Northern Ireland four years on from decriminalisation, according to a new report. Amnesty International's 159-page report, Legal but not local: Barriers to accessing abortion services in Northern Ireland, lays bare "the failures and wide-rangin

Belfast solicitor Brian Speers, chair of the Law Society Mediation Service (LSMS) in Northern Ireland, writes on an important case for those interested in developments regarding mediation. On 29th November 2023, the Court of Appeal in England and Wales issued its judgment in the case of James Church