Northern Ireland

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The PSNI is to begin routinely releasing photos of convicted criminals, the force's chief constable has said. Jon Boutcher told the NI Policing Board that he has a "very clear plan" in place to begin publishing mugshots next year "as a deterrence", The Irish News reports.

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The resumption of civil proceedings linked to the Troubles is "really positive news" for survivors' and victims' families, Belfast firm KRW LAW LLP has said. Northern Ireland secretary Hilary Benn announced this week that he would bring a remedial order to Westminster in response to court rulings wh

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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