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 […]
Read MoreToday, 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 […]
Read MoreToday 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 […]
Read MoreWHERE 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 […]
Read MoreThe family of Sean Brown have voiced their annoyance after a preliminary Coroners court hearing today was adjourned for a further 2 weeks. The inquest into the killing of the Bellaghy GAA club chairman has been adjourned on numerous occasions over the last 8 years. Hopes were raised in January last year that the long […]
Read MoreMcGurk’s Bar Families take Legal Action To Access Blocked HET Report (Issued at a meeting of the Policing Board- 31st July 2013) The Historical Enquiries Team (HET) has reviewed the RUC investigation into the McGurk’s Bar massacre of 4th December 1971. Its report was completed in December 2012 but its release has been blocked by […]
Read MoreStatement of KRW LAW LLP We act on behalf of American citizen Zach Gevelinger – aged 24- who was arrested under section 41 of the Terrorism Act 9 This afternoon he was finally released without charge after spending 9 days in custody His arrest came after he visited with a female prisoner in Hydebank and […]
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