Northern Ireland

Seven Northern Ireland lawyers raised over £7,000 for a charity working to stop false imprisonment in Kenya by going behind bars in Downpatrick County Museum Jail. The International Justice Mission (IJM) fundraising initiative saw the lawyers locked up and challenged to raise a "bail" amount of £5

Anna McClimonds An associate at Cleaver Fulton Rankin has been shortlisted for a young leadership award.

An asbestos consultancy firm which was granted a contract with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive in 2013 has been ordered by the High Court to provide all timesheets in relation to the contract in an ongoing dispute over compensation for the agreed works. Mr Justice Deeny criticised the consult

Jeremy Corbyn Labour's leaked manifesto pledge to extend abortion rights to women in Northern Ireland has received a mixed reception on this side of the Irish Sea.

The UK Supreme Court will hear legal arguments in the “gay cake” case this October. The McArthur family, who run the Ashers Baking Company at the centre of the case, has welcomed news that the court will hold a two-day hearing for legal arguments in the Autumn.

Laura Gillespie Business leaders have just over a year to prepare for major changes in data protection and privacy law, Pinsent Masons has warned.

Martin McAuley The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) has named law graduate Martin McAuley as the party's candidate in North Belfast, where he will compete with Sinn Féin's John Finucane.

Jeremy Corbyn A leaked draft of Labour's general election manifesto includes a commitment to extending abortion rights to women in Northern Ireland.

Ciarán Moynagh and Laura Lacole A humanist couple backed by the British Humanist Association (BHA) have won permission for a judicial review of Northern Ireland authorities for failing to extend legal recognition to humanist marriages.

The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has faced a political backlash following its decision to charge ex-soldier Dennis Hutchings with attempted murder. Mr Hutchings, 75, is accused of killing John-Pat Cunningham, 27, as he ran away from an army patrol in Benburb, Co Armagh in 1974.

The collapse of the Northern Ireland Executive leaves victims of historical child abuse with "no alternative" but to seek redress through the courts, a lawyer has said. Claire McKeegan of Belfast firm KRW Law told the Belfast Telegraph that the political deadlock meant the report of the Historical I

The Bar of Northern Ireland presented a cheque for £22,500 to The Boom Foundation after a year of fundraising events and activities.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is failing to enforce civil injunction orders granted by the Northern Ireland courts, a Belfast-based solicitor has claimed. Solicitor Ciaran O'Hare of McIvor Farrell Solicitors is acting in a judicial review against the PSNI.

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson Lawyers acting for UK victims of Libyan-sponsored terrorism have welcomed Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson's support for their compensation bid.

A woman who was denied leave to remain in the UK after overstaying her six-month visa for almost seven years has had her application for judicial review dismissed in the High Court. The woman argued that the Home Office decision maker had erred in not allowing her case to go to a Tribunal, and that