Northern Ireland

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).

Health Minister Simon Hamilton The sale of HIV self-testing kits has been legalised in Northern Ireland from today.

The High Court has dismissed an application for judicial review brought by a former heroin addict who argued he had a "secondary case procedural legitimate expectation" to have been consulted by the Department of Justice before they ceased funding for an addiction service. The applicant, Mr Charles

The Attorney General for Northern Ireland has ordered a fresh inquiry into the death of Joseph Campbell, an RUC officer who was shot dead in 1977. Attorney General John Larkin ordered the inquest after family lawyer Fearghál Shiels of Madden & Finucane Solicitors presented fresh evidence, inclu