The Egyptian authorities today refused Darragh Mackin, lawyer for Ibrahim Halawa, access to the hearing scheduled to take place in a purposely designed Court inside Cairos Wady al natroon prison. Lawyers Darragh Mackin and Gavin Booth, from the Human Rights firm KRW LAW LLP, based in Belfast, travelled to Egypt for the purposes of […]
Ibrahim Halawa’s family has appointed an experienced legal team to represent him on all Irish and international law issues: solicitor Darragh Mackin at KRW Law, Belfast, and barristers Caoilfhionn Gallagher, Katie O’Byrne and Mark Wassouf of Doughty Street Chambers, London. The legal team says that there have been serious violations of Ibrahim Halawa’s rights […]
Relatives for Justice (RFJ) has been an NGO delegate at the UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) in Geneva during its examination of the UK’s human rights record this week. RFJ has been represented at the meeting of the Panel by Niall Murphy, a member of the Board of Management, who is also a Solicitor Advocate […]
Relatives for Justice (RfJ) was established in 1991 by the relatives of people killed by British soldiers, members of the RUC and by loyalist paramilitary organisations in circumstances where collusion with state forces is suspected. Today Rfj’s holistic support and advocacy services extend to the bereaved and injured of all participants to the conflict. RFJ […]
KRW LAW LLP is instructed by a number of The Hooded Men interned and tortured by the British government in August 1971. These 14 men became the first (there were others to follow) “Guinea Pigs” in the British army’s deployment of ‘deep interrogation’ or what has become known as The Five Techniques. These techniques had […]
On Thursday 28th May 2015, BBC Panorama will broadcast “Britain’s Secret Terror Deals” which continues its important work in exposing the truth behind many of the secrets of the Conflict in the North of Ireland, most recently in relation to the British army covert operations unit the Military Reaction Force (MRF). Now the BBC […]
On the 5th of May 2015 The Legal Aid for Crown Court Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2015 came into operation. These rules are a direct attack on the capacity of legal defence practitioners to exercise their proper function both to their clients and to wider society. When these rules were first […]
Today, the Supreme Court will hear legal arguments in a case examining the massacre by the British army of 24 civilians at the Batang Kali rubber plantation on 12th December 1948 in Malaya during what the British government called the Malayan Emergency. Relatives of the unarmed civilians who were murdered will be present at the […]
Today the Legal Services Agency Northern Ireland (LSANI) published details of payments made to solicitors and barristers for publicly funded legal services in Northern Ireland. The Agency was established by the Minister of Justice on 1ST April 2015 upon the dissolution of the Northern Ireland Legal Services Commission. The details of the payments cover the […]
WHERE NOW FOR THE HOODED MEN? IRELAND V UK REVISITED A KRW LAW LLP BRIEFING NOTE (04.09.14) Recent research which has fed into high profile media documentary television programmes by both RTE and BBC has resurrected interest in the case of the 14 Hooded Men. It will be recalled that The Hooded Men were those […]
