Our experienced Solicitor and Advocate, Chris McCann, has represented a number of sentenced prisoners recalled on Northern Irish Licences for new offences committed outside the Jurisdiction in England & Wales. In those circumstances a hearing before the Northern Irish Parole Commissioners will take place in whatever jurisdiction the prisoner client is held. Funding by the…
Harte Coyle Collins congratulates 2 worthy winners of the firm’s PACE prize awarded at the Institute of Professional Legal Studies, Queen’s University Belfast last week. The winners, Sarah Mulholland (2017) and Grainne McAnaney (2018) received the awards from the firm for their excellence in relation to the law and procedures applicable to suspects in custody…
A secret MI5 report that resulted in Northern Ireland’s police covertly prioritising intelligence-gathering over fighting crime has been made public after almost 40 years. The report resulted in detectives of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) – now the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) – being ordered never to arrest a suspected terrorist without consulting…
‘’Have they done this before?’’ Clare’s Law was first introduced in England and Wales in 2014 and Scotland in 2016, and a similar initiative has now been established in Northern Ireland in 2018. Named after Clare Wood who was murdered by her violent partner in 2009, the Department of Justice have launched the ‘Domestic Violence…
Expert Mental Health Tribunal lawyer, Chris McCann, successfully represented and achieved the discharge of a detained patient at a Mental Health Review Tribunal in June 2018. The patient was discharged from their detention under the Mental Health Order despite objections by the Trust and Social Services. Patients in such cases are more often than…
Maureen McKeown, originally from England, has lived in Downpatrick, Co Down, for over 40 years. She spent most of her working life alongside her husband setting up and running a family business, while raising 5 children. Maureen was lured into writing her first book by a chance internet search for family members. She discovered…
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2018/may/16/tini-owens-is-locked-into-an-unhappy-marriage-this-is-why-we-need-no-fault-divorce
