Northern Ireland

Justice Minister Claire Sugden Nearly £20 million in court fines remain unpaid in Northern Ireland, Justice Minister Claire Sugden has revealed.

David Ford Northern Ireland's former Justice Minister David Ford has denied that political interference from the DUP prevented him easing the use of strip-searches in NI prisons.

Managing partner Michael Johnston Belfast-based firm Carson McDowell has again emerged as the leading Northern Irish firm in the 2017 edition of the Chambers UK Guide.

The High Court of England and Wales has today decided that the UK government does not have the legal authority to trigger Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union (by which a member state gives notice of its intention to leave the EU) without first getting the approval of Parliament. The governmen

Sir Declan Morgan Thursday 10 November

Assistant Chief Constable Will Kerr Assistant Chief Constable Will Kerr of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has announced he will leave the job to join the National Crime Agency.

Mark Orr QC Northern Ireland's Justice Minister Claire Sugden has appointed Mark Orr QC as Presiding Member to the Civil Legal Services Appeal Panels.

At the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow last week, President of the Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger, reflected on constitutional changes across the UK over the last twenty years, and the role of the UK Supreme Court in relation to devolution cases in particular. Read the full lecture here.

The Probation Board for Northern Ireland (PBNI) has opened a new office in Downpatrick, where it shares the same building as the Youth Justice Agency (YJA).

In the High Court in Belfast, Justice Maguire dismissed two judicial review challenges in Northern Ireland to the way the Government intends to invoke Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union to trigger withdrawal from the EU. In August 2016, two applications for judicial review of the Government&

A legal challenge to Brexit that was rejected by the High Court in Belfast will be appealed all the way to the UK Supreme Court. Solicitor Ciaran O'Hare of McIvor Farrell Solicitors, representing victims' campaigner Raymond McCord, said: "No single precedent exists that categorically proves or dispr

Lord Chief Justice, Sir Declan Morgan County courts and magistrates' courts now exercise jurisdiction throughout Northern Ireland under reforms that took effect yesterday.

Michael Johnston Belfast firm Carson McDowell has been named Regional Law Firm of the Year by The Legal 500 – the second time it has won the accolade in the past three years.

The High Court in Belfast has refused two landmark judicial reviews challenging the UK government's ability to activate Article 50 and withdraw from the European Union. The judicial reviews were brought by victims' campaigner Raymond McCord and a cross-community group of MLAs from Sinn Féin, the SD

Patrick Corrigan, Northern Ireland programme director at Amnesty International Amnesty International has issued a fresh call for reform of Northern Ireland's abortion laws following reports a woman has been charged by police for use of abortion pills.