Northern Ireland

Belfast firm Millar McCall Wylie has been awarded top-tier firm status in the Legal 500, with more of its lawyers listed than ever before. Managing partner Peter McCall and partners Damian McParland, Jan Cunningham, Conor Wylie and Scott Kennedy were recognised on the Leading Lawyers listing.

A new consent form to improve the process by which solicitors seek a client's GP notes and records has been launched by the Law Society of Northern Ireland and the British Medical Association (BMA). The pilot represents the first in a series of joint initiatives from the two professional bodies and

Belfast firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has announced the appointment of Christopher Bew, Olivia Sheanon, Brendan Tabb and Ruaidhri Groom as trainee solicitors. The trainees will spend a period of six months each in four different departments, working alongside skilled solicitors with the opportunity to

A coroner has criticised delays in the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) after a file failed to reach a senior public prosecutor until eight months after it was submitted. The Police Ombudsman's Office (PONI) sent a file to the PPS in October 2018 in relation to the death of 36-year-old Gerard McMaho

UK law firm TLT, which recently relocated its Belfast office to larger premises in the Cathedral Quarter, has elected its first new managing partner in 19 years, with corporate head John Wood winning support from the firm's partnership. Mr Wood will replace the firm's long-standing managing partner

Delays in the investigation of killings during the Troubles are "an extension of the policy of collusion", solicitor and Lord Mayor of Belfast, John Finucane, said at an event launching a new book about the murder of his father, Pat Finucane. The late human rights lawyer was shot and killed in 1989

The Northern Ireland Office will soon launch an "awareness campaign" to set out how it plans to implement a law requiring abortion access and same-sex marriage to be introduced if devolution is not restored later this month. The Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Act 2019 requires the Northern I

A host of prominent human rights lawyers and activists will address the sixth annual Belfast International Homecoming Legal Symposium later this month. The event at Law Society House will address issues including freedom of speech and press freedom; human rights in the Supreme and European courts; t

The Northern Ireland Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal brought by the three applicants whose conjoined applications for judicial review were dismissed in the High Court earlier this month. Stating that it was not the Court’s task to evaluate the merits of a UK withdrawal from the EU with

Property lawyer Katharine Hardie has been appointed head of Pinsent Masons’ Scottish and Northern Ireland operations. Ms Hardie takes over the role of chair of Scotland and Northern Ireland from Richard Masters, 29 years to the day since she joined the firm as a trainee lawyer in 1990. Sh

Senior officials from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) briefed Northern Ireland lawyers on how to prepare for Brexit at an event hosted in partnership with the Law Society of Northern Ireland. The event at Law Society House heard from Jenny Pickrell, head of EU exit and trade legal services policy, and

The widow of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane has launched proceedings against the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in the High Court in Belfast following a landmark UK Supreme Court ruling earlier this year. The Supreme Court ruled in February that the state has failed to deliver an A

The average daily prison population in Northern Ireland rose slightly to 1,448 during 2018/19, according to new figures. The male population increased to 1,384 and the female population increased to 65, representing an overall increase of 0.6 per cent.

Northern Ireland firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has released a video highlighting the important points raised at its recent event on the future of property development.

Ulster University academic Professor Cath Collins has led an exchange between a delegation of relatives and pro bono human rights lawyers from Chile and their counterparts in Uruguay. Professor Collins is a professor of transitional justice at the Transitional Justice Institute (TJI), a law-led inte