Northern Ireland

Belfast firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin has raised over £100,000 for local charities since it began its Charity of the Year initiative in 2012.

Two partners at the Belfast office of Pinsent Masons have been named in Business First's Northern Ireland 40 Under 40 list.

Regina Fonseca Honduran women's rights defender Regina Fonseca will address a Belfast meeting hosted by Amnesty International, Alliance for Choice and Frontline Defenders next week.

Belfast firm Worthingtons Solicitors has raised over £100 for Autism NI at a coffee morning hosted by staff.

Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire Legislation to restore devolution in Northern Ireland if an agreement is reached will be fast-tracked through Parliament by May in spite of the coming snap election.

An inquest into the death of 15-year-old Manus Deery, who was shot and killed by a soldier in Derry in 1972, has found that Manus was a totally innocent victim and that in any event, the shot fired was unjustified. Background

Belfast man Jack McCullogh has been declared innocent of the murder of a young girl after the oldest cold case trial in US judicial history. Belfast-born Mr McCullogh was indicted in 2011 on charges of the kidnap, rape and murder of seven-year-old Maria Ridulph in 1957, and was convicted in the subs

A high-level inquiry should take place into the alleged leaking of sensitive documents from the Police Ombudsman's (PONI) office, the Police Federation for Northern Ireland (PFNI) has said. In a statement, PFNI chairman Mark Lindsay (pictured) said the incident underlined the need for a full inquiry

Belfast firm MKB Law has welcomed James McIlveen (pictured) to the team as a legal executive in the firm's debt recovery team. Mr McIlveen will be dealing exclusively with debt recovery and collection matters.

Aaron Mulholland Aaron Mulholland, associate solicitor at Tughans in Belfast, writes on the risks of renting your home on Airbnb.

The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) is re-considering the case of a man who admitted sexually abusing boys to the police but who was never prosecuted. Retired church pastor Henry Clarke, 75, who now lives in Canada, admitted in 1985 that he had abused three boys at a care home.

Salaries for legal professionals in Northern Ireland are performing strongly in the face of Brexit uncertainty, a survey has revealed. The regional Salary Survey Report from Abacus Professional Recruitment, published this week, is based on survey data from 100 partners, senior associate solicitors,

Women in Northern Ireland could face criminal investigation if they include reference to a previously unreported rape in their tax credit application, a charity has said. From today, new rules restrict child tax credits to a woman's first two children except under specific circumstances, such as a s

Les Allamby The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) has welcomed the progress made to transfer responsibility for the provision of education at Woodlands Juvenile Justice Centre from the Department of Justice to the Department of Education.

A lawyer in the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has said he is "heartened" by public support for the service despite recent allegations of bias in its decision-making. Senior assistant director Stephen Herron told BBC News: "The PPS director is on the record about the impact that such allegations f