Northern Ireland

Stuart Sproule Belfast firm MKB Law has announced the appointment of Stuart Sproule to its business and commercial law team.

Ciara Burns, head of litigation at GR Ingram and Co Solicitors, has passed away. Ms Burns is named as head of litigation on the website of the Portadown-based firm, which now has a headcount of 5 across its Portadown and Lurgan offices.

Pictured (l-r): Jonathan Forrester and Karen Blair Belfast firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has announced strategic expansion plans for the next three years following the appointment of Jonathan Forrester as the firm's new managing director.

Pictured (l-r): Aidan Donnelly, Millicent Tate, Alan Reid, Eileen McLarnon, John O’Prey and Ronald Lowry County Down firm Murlands Solicitors have announced the appointment of Millicent Tate and John O’Prey as partners, in recognition of their dedication to the success of the business.

Matthew Jury The UK government has failed victims by failing to provide proper and adequate support to UK victims of Libyan-sponsored IRA terrorism, lawyers have said.

Six retired RUC officers have instructed a lawyer to prepare legal action against the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland (PONI) over an alleged data breach. It comes as a criminal investigation continues into the naming of at least eight ex-police officers in papers unlawfully disclosed to a law

Sarah Ewing TLT has promoted Belfast-based real estate lawyer Sarah Ewing to legal director as part of its 2017 promotion round, effective from 1 May.

Following a successful pilot, Belfast firm Carson McDowell has announced it is partnering with the Citizenship Foundation to extend its legal education schools programme across Northern Ireland.

Two teams from the Institute of Professional Legal Studies (IPLS) recently competed successfully in two international legal competitions.

Amber Rudd Fifty groups from around the UK who work with refugees have called on the Home Secretary Amber Rudd to reverse a policy "beyond basic morality”, the BBC reports.

Victims of child abuse have called on Northern Ireland political parties and the UK government to address the failure to implement the recommendations of the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry report. After a demonstration at Stormont today, abuse survivors will hand in a 30-page document and le

Mr Justice Turlough O'Donnell, a former High Court and Court of Appeal judge, has died. The prominent late judge, buried yesterday, sat on the bench between 1971-90 and subsequently became a part-time member of Ireland's Law Reform Commission.

Belfast solicitors are set to raise cash for a mental health charity by playing golf. The Belfast Solicitors' Association (BSA) has launched its annual Golf Day, which this year will raise cash for Inspire wellbeing (formerly Niamh), one of the longest established mental health and learning disabili

Les Allamby The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) has joined its counterparts in Scotland, England and Wales in urging the UK government to strengthen, not weaken, human rights through Brexit.

A choir of solicitors, barristers and judges will raise money in aid of Belfast's homeless at a concert next month.