Northern Ireland

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The overwhelming majority of Northern Ireland Prison Service staff are Protestant, according to new figures from the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency. Of its 1,230 staff, 957 (77 per cent) identified themselves as Protestants and just 166 (13 per cent) identified themselves as Catholi

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Pictured (l-r): Jude Copeland, Ciarán Moynagh, Jill Minne, Monye Anyadike-Danes QC and Conor McCormick Members of the legal profession celebrated sexual diversity at a special event for LGBT students hosted by Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF).

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Northern Ireland's Director of Public Prosecutions has confirmed that women who disclose a previously unreported rape to tax authorities risk prosecution, The Guardian reports. Charities raised concern this year that women could fall foul of section 5(1) of the Criminal Law Act (Northern Ireland) 19

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Lawyers representing the family of one of the Guildford Four have written to the senior coroner for Surrey to request the original inquest into the Guildford pub bombings is reopened. Belfast firm KRW Law is instructed by Ann McKearnan, the sister of Gerry Conlon, who was wrongly imprisoned for 15 y

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Prisoners in Northern Ireland have received compensation payouts worth over £700,000 in five years, the Belfast Telegraph reports. More than 1,800 injury claims have been submitted since 2013 resulting in payments of £696,348, according to figures released under Freedom of Information (FOI) laws.

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Northern Ireland barristers bested their solicitor colleagues in a charity football match to raise cash for mental health charity Inspire. The Belfast Solicitors Association (BSA) failed to claim the inaugural BSA Annual Inspire Charity Cup after losing 4-2 to The Bar of Northern Ireland, but thanke

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Two Belfast solicitors are suing Irish businessman Denis O'Brien for libel over alleged claims their independent report on Irish media ownership was paid for by the IRA, The Times reports. Gavin Booth and Darragh Mackin of KRW Law were two of four authors of the Report on the Concentration of Media

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