Lawyers to meet UN on threat claims
A United Nations delegation will visit London and Belfast this week to investigate complaints that lawyers defending IRA suspects are being harassed by the...
Phil McCullough
A BELFAST man yesterday became the first person to mount a European court legal challenge to an exclusion order made under the Prevention of...
Relatives storm out of ‘charade’
RELATIVES of three men killed by a British army undercover unit walked out of an inquest yesterday pledging to take the case to the...
Casement 3 take ‘life’ review body to court
A LEGAL challenge is to be made on the powers of the Life Sentence Review Board after its members refused to explain why they...
Wine store manager ‘sacked over refusing Sunday work’
A WINE STORE manager who claimed he was sacked for refusing to work on Sundays is to take legal action against his former employers,...
Relatives ‘furious’ after judge clears police of negligence
THE RUC was cleared yesterday of any financial liability arising out of the killing of three men by a deranged policeman in west Belfast...
Solicitor to issue writ against police
A BELFAST solicitor is taking legal action against the RUC’s chief constable after claims that she was forcibly removed from a police station room...
‘Jail for the rest of your life’ man sees hope
A REPUBLICAN prisoner who was told he must remain in jail till he dies, has won the first legal battle to have the decision...
Plastic bullet victim plans to sue RUC over injuries
A MAN WHO lost an eye after he was struck in the face by a plastic bullet is to sue the RUC. Martin Toner,...
Legal action over curfew
MORE than 700 residents of Belfast’s lower Ormeau Road are to sue for false imprisonment after last week’s RUC curfew of the area during...