Northern Ireland

David Isaac, chair of the Diversity Steering Group at Pinsent Masons International law firm Pinsent Masons has been ranked one of the top five most inclusive employers in the 2016 Stonewall Workplace Equality Index.

The PSNI and Ulster University have launched an online course to promote awareness of cybercrime and what it entails, as well as highlight tools and support available to everyone to stay safe in the virtual world. Detective Chief Inspector Douglas Grant, from the PSNI’s Cyber Crime Centre, has bee

A Sinn Féin MLA has been ordered to pay an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) MP nearly £50,000 in compensation for falsely implying he had harassed and shot people. Mr Justice Stephens, sitting in the High Court in Belfast, ruled that Phil Flanagan's tweet about Tom Elliott's conduct during his career a

The UK's three law commissions have called for a new legal framework for the conduct of elections and referenda in an interim report published today. The report comes off the back of the commissions' joint project on electoral law, dealing with 17 major statutes and 30 sets of regulations and conclu

Justice Minister David Ford The Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 will come into force in Northern Ireland this Spring, Justice Minister David Ford has said.

Attorney General John Larkin QC The appeal by Ashers Bakery Company against a high-profile discrimination ruling has been adjourned for three months.

Dawn McKnight, partner in the corporate/commercial teams at Carson McDowell Belfast law firm Carson McDowell has said it expects an increase in M&A activity over the last year to continue.

Pictured (l-r): Barbara Jemphrey, Mary-Jane Byrne, Elise Quigley, Brigid Moore and Ruth Erwin Law students at Queens University Belfast (QUB) have come second in a UK-wide mediation competition.

Pictured (l-r): Celia Worthington and Paddy Hopkirk MBE Monte Carlo Rally legend Paddy Hopkirk MBE has visited Worthingtons Solicitors to congratulate the firm on the 10th anniversary of the opening of their Belfast office.

The Attorney General for Northern Ireland has been granted leave to bring prosecution proceedings against a police officer who threatened to arrest a judge. John Larkin QC went before the High Court in Belfast yesterday to apply for the right to bring proceedings against Thomas Anthony Carlin for co

The Department of Justice has told Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Theresa Villiers that it does not have the resources to fund the police investigation into murders allegedly committed by the IRA informant codenamed Stakeknife. Justice Minister David Ford said the UK government must pay for

Steven Agnew MLA Steven Agnew MLA has submitted amendments to the Northern Ireland Executive's Justice (No. 2) Bill in a bid to bring abortion law in line with a High Court judgment last year.

Northern Ireland's Justice Minister David Ford Northern Ireland's Justice Minister David Ford has launched a recruitment competition to appoint a new chairperson and two board members to the Northern Ireland Police Fund (NIPF).

Barristers and solicitors across Great Britain and Ireland who practise in commercial law will flock to Belfast this April for the British Irish Commercial Bar Association's (BICBA) annual conference.

Lord Justice Weir Lord Justice Weir, the presiding judge of the Coroners' Court, has said legacy inquests in Northern Ireland are given a "very low" priority by the Ministry of Defence (MoD).