Northern Ireland
Conal McGarrity Dungannon-based P.A. Duffy & Co. Solicitors has announced the appointment of Conal McGarrity as one of the firm's directors.
Patrick Brown Tughans is among 15 law firms providing pro bono legal advice to sports organisations in Northern Ireland through the Legal Panel Framework.
Lawyers representing the family of one of the Guildford Four have written to the senior coroner for Surrey to request the original inquest into the Guildford pub bombings is reopened. Belfast firm KRW Law is instructed by Ann McKearnan, the sister of Gerry Conlon, who was wrongly imprisoned for 15 y
Prisoners in Northern Ireland have received compensation payouts worth over £700,000 in five years, the Belfast Telegraph reports. More than 1,800 injury claims have been submitted since 2013 resulting in payments of £696,348, according to figures released under Freedom of Information (FOI) laws.
Northern Ireland barristers bested their solicitor colleagues in a charity football match to raise cash for mental health charity Inspire. The Belfast Solicitors Association (BSA) failed to claim the inaugural BSA Annual Inspire Charity Cup after losing 4-2 to The Bar of Northern Ireland, but thanke
Two Belfast solicitors are suing Irish businessman Denis O'Brien for libel over alleged claims their independent report on Irish media ownership was paid for by the IRA, The Times reports. Gavin Booth and Darragh Mackin of KRW Law were two of four authors of the Report on the Concentration of Media
A former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland has spoken about his near escape from an IRA car bomb as he backed a bid to secure Libyan compensation for IRA victims. Lord Carswell was addressing the House of Lords during a debate on UUP Lord Empey's bill providing for compensation for UK victims o
Belfast-based O'Reilly Stewart Solicitors has helped to raise over £4,000 for cancer charities. The firm was one of a number of local businesses which contributed raffle prizes to a fundraising evening in Newtownabbey on Thursday.
A judge has said the treatment underwent by the Hooded Men would probably be called torture today, in what has been described by their solicitor as a "truly momentous" moment. Mr Justice Maguire, sitting in the High Court in Belfast, dismissed a lawsuit which argued the state was in breach of a lega
David Craig A Northern Ireland teacher represented by Johnsons Solicitors has won a preliminary stage in a landmark libel action against Facebook.
An employment solicitor at Belfast-based MKB Law was named a finalist in the UK-wide Inspirational Women in Law Awards.
Over a dozen solicitors and barristers have completed the Institute of Professional Legal Studies' (IPLS) mediation training course.
Twelve students from schools around Northern Ireland have participated in a Work Inspiration session at Carson McDowell's office in partnership with Business in the Community. The solicitor firm has been involved in the Work Inspiration programme for over four years, welcoming over 150 students over
A woman has been awarded over £20,000 in the Northern Ireland Fair Employment Tribunal after it was found that she was discriminated against and victimised on the grounds of her religious belief or political opinion. The woman had been working for the company for over four years when a dispute aros