Northern Ireland

Michael Johnston, managing partner of Carson McDowell Carson McDowell saw its turnover increase by 25 per cent to £13.5 million in 2016 following a successful year across all business areas, the firm has announced.

Sir Gerald Howarth, MP for Aldershot The Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland (PPS) has firmly rejected accusations of bias made by a Conservative MP.

Pictured (l-r): Brian Dolaghan, Invest NI; Alan Hunter, Law Society Chief Executive; Brian Speers, DRS Chair; Anne Beggs, Invest NI; Colum Eastwood MLA; and Michael Bready, Mediator/Barrister The mediation service administered by the Law Society of Northern Ireland has received accreditation from th

Judith Allen TLT has appointed Judith Allen as a real estate partner. She will be working from the firm's Belfast office.

Facebook has succeeded in its appeal against an award of £20,000 in compensation, which the High Court held it was liable to pay to a convicted sex offender for misuse of private information. In finding that Facebook could only be held liable for a limited 10-day period in which information about t

Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire The Northern Ireland Assembly is set to be dissolved from Thursday 26 January ahead of an early election on Thursday 2 March.

The number of Northern Ireland businesses brought before the Industrial Tribunal increased by 28 per cent last year, The Irish News reports. Figures released following a Freedom of Information (FOI) request show 3,030 cases were brought in the year to 31 March 2016, relating to unfair dismissal, wag

Matthew Jury, managing partner at McCue & Partners Lawyers acting for the families of the three off-duty Scottish soldiers who were killed by the Provisional IRA in 1971 have threatened legal action to bring their killers to justice.

The drunk driver who killed Enda Dolan, the 18-year-old first-year architecture student at Queen's University, has had his sentence increased by two years after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) challenged the overly generous mitigation in the man’s sentencing. In a reference by the DPP un

Northern Ireland's power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive has collapsed, making fresh elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly inevitable. It follows the resignation last Tuesday of deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, who said he was resigning because First Minister Arlene Foster would not

Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir Northern Ireland's Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir has announced plans to challenge laws preventing the use of the Irish language in Northern Ireland courts.

Patrick Fleming Cleaver Fulton Rankin has become the first solicitor firm in Belfast to set up a specialist cyber risk unit aimed at tackling online crime.

Maya Foa, director of Reprieve's death penalty team Human rights group Reprieve has criticised the UK government for failing to take steps to prevent the execution of three men in Bahrain.

Justice Minister Claire Sugden Northern Ireland's Justice Minister Claire Sugden has launched a competition to recruit a new Prisoner Ombudsman for Northern Ireland.

Attorney General John Larkin QC Northern Ireland's Attorney General John Larkin QC has said his role in Stormont's political crisis will remain that of a lawyer and "nothing more of that".