Northern Ireland

Attorney General John Larkin Northern Ireland's Attorney General John Larkin will appeal the landmark High Court ruling allowing a legally-binding humanist wedding ceremony to go ahead.

Matthew Jury A law firm representing some victims of terrorism in Northern Ireland have called on the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to advance their interests in negotiations with the Conservative Party.

The High Court in Belfast has ruled in favour of a couple who sought permission for a legally-binding humanist wedding ceremony. Mr Justice Colton quashed the General Register Office’s decision to refuse an application for authorisation for a humanist marriage on the grounds that it breached the a

Solicitor Antoinette Curran, a former president of the Law Society of Northern Ireland, has passed away. Ms Curran was admitted as a solicitor in 1979 and became president of the Law Society in 1998.

Maria McCloskey Maria McCloskey, an associate solicitor at Napier & Sons in Belfast, has been appointed to co-ordinate a new legal project in partnership with the Northern Ireland Community of Refugees and Asylum Seekers (NICRAS).

John Finucane Belfast solicitor John Finucane has failed in his bid to be elected as Sinn Féin's MP for North Belfast.

Pictured: Michael Johnston, managing partner at Carson McDowell, with newly appointed partners Mary-Kim Doherty, Kerry Teahan, Peter Guzhar, Grant McBurney and Olivia O’Kane Northern Ireland's largest independent law firm, Carson McDowell, has today announced the appointment of five new partners.

The UK Supreme Court will rule next week on a challenge to the Secretary of State for Health over his failure to make abortion available on the NHS in England to women from Northern Ireland. Judgment in R (on the application of A and B) (Appellants) v Secretary of State for Health (Respondent) will

Ian Gordon A standards commissioner from Scotland was brought in to mediate in a dispute between two Northern Ireland councillors, The Irish News reports.

Brian Dooley Human rights lawyers in Northern Ireland are being "demonised" by the press and public officials, a new US report has claimed.

Pictured: Guests at the gala dinner, including KRW Law's Claire McKeegan (left) and BSA chair Eoghan McKenna (centre) Lawyers from Belfast, Dublin and Liverpool came together at a gala dinner hosted by the Belfast Solicitors Association (BSA).

Ciaran O’Hare Lawyers for Raymond McCord have issued judicial review proceedings against the PSNI over alleged delays in its investigation of the 1997 murder of his son, Raymond McCord Junior.

A legal challenge in the High Court against changes to Northern Ireland's controversial RHI scheme has been delayed until October. More than 500 members of the Renewable Heat Association NI (RHANI) are seeking to have the Department of the Economy's revised 2017 RHI regulations declared ultra vires,

Andrea McIlroy-Rose Pinsent Masons has appointed Andrea McIlroy-Rose as head of its Belfast office.

A man who was responsible for the death of a labourer, whom he contracted to work on the roof of an agricultural shed, must serve 12 months in custody after the Director of Public Prosecutions appealed the leniency of the original sentence. Delivering the judgment of the Court, Lord Justice Gillen e