Northern Ireland

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The names of all companies benefiting from the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme can be published, the High Court has ruled. Mr Justice Donnell Deeny held it would be in the public interest for Economy Minister Simon Hamilton to name companies benefiting from the scheme, though maintained an inj

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The Law Society of Northern Ireland has announced the launch of their Advanced Advocacy Course for Solicitors 2017. Now in its 18th year, the Advocacy course continues to grow in popularity and attendance providing world class training to local solicitors to help them improve and develop their advoc

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Nearly a third of Northern Ireland's victims of crime did not report the crime to police because they thought it was too trivial or the police would not do anything. The figure emerged in a Department of Justice briefing which sets out findings from the 2015/16 Northern Ireland Crime Survey.

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Law Centre (NI) has helped a couple who had been suffering hardship through unnecessary delays in obtaining Child Tax Credit (CTC). They had been granted refugee status a few days after registering their baby’s birth. They made a joint claim for Child Tax Credit soon afterward but were not given a

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Maxine Orr Redundancy within a workplace can arise where there is a diminution or cessation of the type of work that an employee carries out. That can arise as part of a restructuring, or where the duties of the post are redistributed among other staff, writes Maxine Orr.

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A party that wants to legalise cannabis in Northern Ireland has been struck off the register of political parties and fined £23,000 for forgetting to file accounts on time. Cannabis is Safer than Alcohol is registered separately in Northern Ireland and Britain but it has failed to meet the requirem

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Solicitor Pat Finucane's widow, Geraldine Finucane, has lost her appeal against the UK government's refusal to hold a public inquiry into his 1989 murder. She argued that the previous Labour-led administration had promised an inquiry would be held, and that Prime Minister David Cameron had unlawfull

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