Northern Ireland

Brenda Campbell Northern Ireland-born barrister Brenda Campbell will be appointed a Queen's Counsel in February.

Adrian Kerr Mills Selig will provide specialist legal advice to some of Northern Ireland's top manufacturing firms as part of a new partnership.

Sarah Burrows Belfast-based Cleaver Fulton Rankin Solicitors (CFR) has become an associate member of Social Enterprise NI, the representative body for social enterprises and social entrepreneurs.

Pictured (l-r): Trevor Lockhart, CBI Chair; Angela McGowan, CBI director; Paul Drechsler, CBI President; and Gareth Planck, Partner, Eversheds Sutherland Eversheds Sutherland hosted a private dinner in Belfast for leading members of the CBI, including president Paul Drechsler.

Members of the legal profession have paid tribute to the late Judge John McKee, who passed away earlier this month. His funeral is set to take place this Friday 19 January, 1.30pm at Killinchy Presbyterian Church.

Joe Brolly A prominent criminal barrister and sports pundit has claimed that the "tremendous consensus" that once existed around the Good Friday Agreement has gone, the Belfast Telegraph reports.

Judgment has been reserved in Sinn Féin president and Louth TD Gerry Adams' appeal against his two convictions in the 1970s for attempting to escape from prison. Lawyers for Mr Adams told Belfast's Court of Appeal the convictions should be quashed because his imprisonment under the UK government's

Andrew Jennings TLT has announced the appointment of Andrew Jennings as a corporate partner in its Belfast office, completing the firm's full service offering in Northern Ireland.

Karen Bradley Judicial review proceedings against new Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley are listed for a preliminary hearing tomorrow, barely a week after the cabinet secretary took on the role.

A PSNI officer convicted of perverting the course of justice after he admitted to crashing his car while over the limit and then attempting to cover it up by making the car look as though it had been stolen has lost his appeal against his conviction. The man was sentenced to six months imprisonment

A ruling on remedy and costs following the finding that a Police Ombudsman's report into the 1994 Loughinisland massacre was "unsustainable in law" has been postponed. Mr Justice McCloskey ruled last December that a 2016 report which found that collusion was an element in the massacre was unlawful a

Solicitor and former resident magistrate Wishart Mills has passed away at the age of 95, the Law Society of Northern Ireland has said. Mr Mills, who passed away on Saturday, graduated from Queens University Belfast in the 1940s and completed his apprenticeship at Macintosh & Bradley in Newtownar

Pamela Irvine Mackenzie & Dorman Solicitors has welcomed solicitor Pamela Irvine to the practice.

Sinn Féin and the SDLP have urged the return of 50:50 recruitment to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), The Irish Times reports. Figures show that just 31 per cent of the 7,700 applicants for 300 new officer posts are Catholic.

A trainee solicitor has pleaded guilty to seriously assaulting his girlfriend during a drunken argument, the Derry Journal reports. Kevin McDaid, 31, admitted a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm on 2 December 2017, but denied an additional charge of causing damage to a police car.