Northern Ireland

Solicitor Claire Edgar has presented to a European conference on the impact of Northern Ireland's 2021 domestic abuse legislation. Ms Edgar, a partner and specialist in domestic violence and family law at Belfast firm Francis Hanna & Co Solicitors, was a guest speaker at the European Conference

Belfast firm Allsopp Campbell Rainey Solicitors has welcomed Aimee Nelson as a trainee solicitor. The appointment reflects the firm's commitment to investing in emerging legal talent and supporting the development of the next generation of solicitors, it said.

Barrister Nicole Lappin has been appointed as a Northern Ireland non-executive board member to the Human Tissue Authority (HTA). The HTA is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care in England.

Professor Kevin Brown of Queen's University Belfast weighs up competing proposals for reform of sentencing in Northern Ireland. Before the summer recess, MLAs debated a motion on improving sentencing practice that called for a public consultation on creating a Sentencing Council.

Northern Ireland’s High Court has determined in a defamation case that the single correct meaning of impugned words used in a book and on the X platform was that solicitor Paul Tweed acted unprofessionally. Delivering judgment for the High Court of Northern Ireland, Mr Justice Adrian Colton ex

Northern Ireland's Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) is seeking to intervene in a judicial review concerning the A5 dual carriageway project. The Department for Infrastructure is appealing against a High Court ruling from June which quashed a decision to proceed with t

Families of those killed in the 1994 RAF Chinook crash are seeking judicial review of the UK government's refusal to hold a public inquiry into the disaster. A total of 29 senior security personnel died when the helicopter went down on the Mull of Kintyre en route from Northern Ireland to Scotland.

Northern Ireland commercial law firm Tughans has announced a charity partnership with Sands, the UK's leading pregnancy and baby loss charity. Sands provides vital support to anyone affected by pregnancy loss or the death of a baby, whilst also funding pioneering research to save babies’

Belfast firm O'Reilly Stewart has welcomed Dominic McCasland and Shay Maguire as its first-ever degree apprentices. A degree apprenticeship is a work-based training programme which provides an alternative route to getting a university degree, where apprentices complete their course alongside paid pe

Solicitor Paul Mageean is to serve a third three-year term as chief parole commissioner for Northern Ireland. Parole commissioners help to make decisions on the release or otherwise of those serving extended or indeterminate sentences and in relation to the revocation of licences and recall to priso

Irish language group Conradh na Gaeilge has applied for leave to formally intervene in a legal challenge to the erection of dual-language signage at Grand Central Station in Belfast. The group, which is separately bringing judicial review proceedings over the Northern Ireland Executive and communiti

Coroners in Northern Ireland will be able to investigate some deaths abroad under proposed new legislation. Naomi Long, the justice minister, yesterday published her plans for coronial investigations into deaths abroad, which seek to put families at the centre of the process.

A man has been acquitted before Antrim County Court after new evidence was uncovered in the course of an application to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC). Harte Coyle Collins, Solicitors & Advocates has welcomed the outcome for their client, who was convicted in 2017 of two counts of m

The UK government will give "full consideration" to the findings and recommendations of an independent review of the Windsor Framework, the Northern Ireland secretary has said. Lord Murphy of Torfaen was commissioned in January to lead an independent review of the post-Brexit deal, which was publish

Carson McDowell has welcomed 11 new trainees, bringing its total trainee cohort to a record 21 — more than any other Northern Ireland-headquartered law firm.