Northern Ireland

Justice Minister Claire Sugden Northern Ireland's Justice Minister Claire Sugden has launched a competition to recruit new Parole Commissioners to serve from early 2017 until 8 September 2019.

Survivors of child abuse have set out detailed proposals and costings for a redress scheme which they want the Northern Ireland Executive to set up following the end of the Historic Institutional Abuse Inquiry. The £20 million scheme would provide compensation for thousands of children who suffered

An overwhelming majority of people in Northern Ireland support access to abortions in the case of fatal foetal abnormalities (FFA) or pregnancy as the result of rape, a new opinion poll has found.

Gordon McElroy, director of MKB Law Belfast firm MKB Law is set to grow through a merger with debt recovery specialists McAlinden Solicitors.

John Thompson QC A vital new medical unit has opened at a Barbados hospital in memory of a Northern Ireland barrister who died in a Caribbean sailing accident.

Pictured (l-r): Rachael Gamble, solicitor; Derek Reilly, networking expert; Julie-Ann McCaffrey, associate solicitor; Maria McNally, solicitor Cleaver Fulton Rankin recently hosted a networking skills seminar for young professionals at their headquarters in Belfast.

Lord Justice Gillen The judge-led review of Northern Ireland’s civil and family justice system has produced an interim report on civil justice, recommending moves towards paperless courts and alternative dispute resolution.

Two Northern Ireland lawyers acting for victims' campaigner Raymond McCord in his challenge to the Brexit process in the High Court in Belfast yesterday performed a watching brief in the separate Brexit cases currently underway in London. Solicitor Ciaran O'Hare of McIvor Farrell Solicitors and barr

Key figures in the Law Society of Northern Ireland have met Lord Dunlop to discuss the implications of Brexit on Northern Ireland.

Pictured (l-r): Liam McCollum QC, Chairman of the Bar Council, Claire Sugden MLA, Justice Minister and Sarah Ramsey, Vice Chair of the Bar Council Northern Ireland's Justice Minister Claire Sugden attended this week's Bar Council meeting in the Bar Library, Belfast.

Dr Graham Ellison Dr Graham Ellison of Queen’s University’s School of Law has warned against linking a reported rise in sex crimes to the explosion in readily available obscene material on the Internet.

Belfast firm Cleaver Fulton Rankin Solicitors is hosting an open evening for law students to find out more about its trainee programme.

A Northern Ireland solicitor has appeared in court on charges relating to falsified legal aid documents. Damien McDaid, 42, made no plea when he appeared in Londonderry Magistrates Court accused of committing 61 false accounting offences between July 2010 and January 2012.

Rosemary Lundy, partner and head of employment law at Arthur Cox Arthur Cox is hosting an open evening for legal students seeking the opportunity to secure a trainee position with one of Northern Ireland’s leading law firms.

Cleaver Fulton Rankin Solicitors are inviting creatives and designers to attend a business breakfast event taking place as part of Belfast Design Week 2016. The firm is hosting the fringe event on Friday 11 November at the Thinking Cup, Belfast.