Harte Coyle Collins, Solicitors & Solicitor Advocates, achieved Lexcel Accreditation for the third consecutive year on 21st September 2015 effective till September 2016. The accreditation awards excellence in the law across all practice areas. Lexcel is the Law Society’s legal practice quality mark for excellence in legal practice management and excellence in client care. It…
Nichola Harte, on behalf of May Nicholls, sister of Annette McGavigan who was shot dead by the British army on the 6th September 1971 , Abbey Place, Derry confirmed today that the High Court was scathing about the MOD delay in providing a response to the family’s request for access to the original documents regarding…
Harte Coyle Collins, Solicitors & Solicitor Advocates, Appeal Damages Award against Joe McCloskey and Facebook Nichola Harte of Harte Coyle Collins has been retained to defend Mr Joe McCloskey in an appeal to the Court of Appeal against an award of damages made by a High Court Judge in 2015. Mr McCloskey operated a Facebook…
Harte Coyle Collins, Solicitors & Solicitor Advocates, today obtained a unique mandatory injunction to compel the return of a family dog, Charlie, a 2 year old salt and pepper schaunzer terrier, to his original ower.
On the 15th of January the Sunday World newspaper agreed to pay out compensation following the instigation of civil proceedings for defamation against Mr Stephen Paul. Nichola Harte of Harte Coyle Collins, Solicitors & Solicitor Advocates, sued on behalf of Mr Paul for defamatory allegations made about him in an article publicshed on the 7th July 2013. The Sunday World accepted that the allegatons made regarding Mr Paul were untrure and apologised for the distress caused to him agreeing to compensate him by way of damages and costs.
The Court of Criminal Appeal today quashed a Forfeiture Order imposed by Antrim Crown Court in respect of a BMW motorcycle when sentencing Gabriel Mackle for explosives and ammunition charges in 2014. On the 8th September 2014 the Crown Court imposed an order forfeiting a BMW motorcycle which the prosecution claimed had been used by Mr Mackle to transport a quantity of .22 ammunition and a bottle containing mercury. Mr Mackle pleaded guilty to the offences and received an 8 year sentence in June 2014. In September 2014 the Crown Court Judge imposed the order on the BMW motorcycle.
