Northern Ireland

Facebook has succeeded in its appeal against an award of £20,000 in compensation, which the High Court held it was liable to pay to a convicted sex offender for misuse of private information. In finding that Facebook could only be held liable for a limited 10-day period in which information about t

Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire The Northern Ireland Assembly is set to be dissolved from Thursday 26 January ahead of an early election on Thursday 2 March.

The number of Northern Ireland businesses brought before the Industrial Tribunal increased by 28 per cent last year, The Irish News reports. Figures released following a Freedom of Information (FOI) request show 3,030 cases were brought in the year to 31 March 2016, relating to unfair dismissal, wag

Matthew Jury, managing partner at McCue & Partners Lawyers acting for the families of the three off-duty Scottish soldiers who were killed by the Provisional IRA in 1971 have threatened legal action to bring their killers to justice.

The drunk driver who killed Enda Dolan, the 18-year-old first-year architecture student at Queen's University, has had his sentence increased by two years after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) challenged the overly generous mitigation in the man’s sentencing. In a reference by the DPP un

Northern Ireland's power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive has collapsed, making fresh elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly inevitable. It follows the resignation last Tuesday of deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, who said he was resigning because First Minister Arlene Foster would not

Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir Northern Ireland's Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir has announced plans to challenge laws preventing the use of the Irish language in Northern Ireland courts.

Patrick Fleming Cleaver Fulton Rankin has become the first solicitor firm in Belfast to set up a specialist cyber risk unit aimed at tackling online crime.

Maya Foa, director of Reprieve's death penalty team Human rights group Reprieve has criticised the UK government for failing to take steps to prevent the execution of three men in Bahrain.

Justice Minister Claire Sugden Northern Ireland's Justice Minister Claire Sugden has launched a competition to recruit a new Prisoner Ombudsman for Northern Ireland.

Attorney General John Larkin QC Northern Ireland's Attorney General John Larkin QC has said his role in Stormont's political crisis will remain that of a lawyer and "nothing more of that".

The Law Society of Northern Ireland has warned solicitors to be wary of fraudulent phone calls purporting to be from the Trade Mark Office. Members of the legal profession have reported calls from fraudsters seeking to obtain contact information and/or bank account details.

Attorney General John Larkin QC Northern Ireland's Attorney General John Larkin QC spoke about religious freedom at the launch of a new resource from the Evangelical Alliance and Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship, the News Letter reports.

Nicola McCrudden, CIH Northern Ireland's director An independent housing panel to deal with disputes between private tenants and landlords has been mooted for Northern Ireland.

Belfast firm Tughans has topped the Experian Deal Review and Advisor League Table for the second year in a row. According to Experian's latest report, Tughans was the most active legal advisor in terms of volume last year, participating in over 30 per cent of NI deals - 38 per cent more than the nex