Northern Ireland

Pictured (l-r): Jerry Buting and Connor Beaton Cuts in the provision of legal aid in Northern Ireland will threaten the quality of legal representation for the poorest people in the area, star lawyer Jerry Buting from Making a Murderer has warned.

Patrick Corrigan, Northern Ireland programme director at Amnesty International Sunday marked 18 years since the Good Friday Agreement was signed, forming the basis for the Northern Ireland peace process in the 1990s and the eventual establishment of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Paul McBride, partner and head of the Belfast office at Pinsent Masons International law firm Pinsent Masons has been named Law Firm of the Year at the Legal Business Awards.

Two undergraduate and postgraduate student teams from Queens University Belfast (QUB) competed in the annual Corn Adomnáin International Humanitarian Law competition.

Michael Johnston, managing partner of Carson McDowell Belfast firm Carson McDowell advised on nine major transactions worth £35 million in the first quarter of the year, the highest total value of any local law firm.

The Queen's University Belfast (QUB) Human Rights Centre and King's College London will co-host an all-day event next week examining the landmark European Court of Human Rights judgment in Ireland v UK (18 January 1978). The event stars in QUB's Canada Room at 10:30am on Thursday 14 April and runs u

The High Court has found that the Minister for the Environment acted ultra vires under the Northern Ireland Act 1998 and Ministerial Code, following his unilateral adoption of the Belfast Metropolitan Area Plan, without Executive agreement. The Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Investment had chal

Dorit McCann, partner in the corporate team at Carson McDowell Belfast firm Carson McDowell has warned that a clampdown on convictions under the Bribery Act 2010 is gathering pace.

Andrea McIlroy Rose, partner and head of UK retail property at Pinsent Masons International law firm Pinsent Masons advised on the sale of two of Northern Ireland's best-known retail parks - Junction One and The Outlet - for more than £40 million.

Belfast firm Carson McDowell has become the official legal patron of the construction industry in Northern Ireland, the Construction Employers Federation (CEF) has announced. Carson McDowell has signed up to the CEF Patronage Scheme, which sees organisations from a range of sectors come together to

Amnesty International has called for abortion laws to be reformed as a second case involving a woman accused of procuring drugs to induce a miscarriage comes before Belfast Crown Court. Yesterday, a 21-year-old woman was given a three-month jail sentence suspended for two years after illegally induc

A 21-year-old woman who was reported to police after illegally inducing her miscarriage has been given a three-month prison sentence suspended for two years. The woman, who cannot be named due to a court order, was convicted in Belfast Crown Court of offences under section 58 of the Offences Against

The family of Denis Donaldson has called on An Garda Síochána to co-operate fully with the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland's investigation into his murder ten years ago. Mr Donaldson, formerly a senior member of Sinn Féin, was shot in April 2006, less than six months after being publicly na

The Court of Appeal has found that section 6(8) of the Public Processions (Northern Ireland) Act 1998 can be interpreted as applying a legal burden of proof on defendants accused of taking part in unnotified processions. The appellant, Mr Jamie Bryson, had been charged with four offences of taking p

The Bar of Northern Ireland has urged the Department of Justice to address the "underlying causes of delays" in the criminal justice system in addition to its exploration of statutory time limits (STLs). In its response to a consultation on the introduction of statutory time limits for progressing c