JOINT PRESS RELEASE ON BEHALF OF PATRICK LAURENCE O NEILL CONVICTION TO THE NI COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL BY THE CRIMINAL CASES REVIEW COMMISSION 28TH APRIL 2025 ISSUED BY HARTE COYLE COLLINS, SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES 2nd MAY 2025 Solicitor Patricia Coyle (Harte Coyle Collins, Solicitors & Advocates) and Paul O Connor (Director of the Pat…
Congratulations to our trainee solicitor Cathal Mullan on being awarded the prize for the 10th best oralist at the international finals of the 29th Stetson International Environmental Moot Court Competition. Cathal, as part of the Institute of Professional Legal Studies team alongside Rebecca Deans and Seán Scally, successfully negotiated the regional rounds hosted in Dublin…
PRESS RELEASE FAMILY OF ANNETTE MCGAVIGAN SEEK PRESERVATION ORDER OF ALL TROUBLES PAPERS HELD BY MOD FROM 1969 TO 2000 HARTE COYLE COLLINS, SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES ISSUED 28th APRIL 2025 Lawyers acting on behalf of the family of Annette McGavigan (14) who they believe was killed by a member of the Royal Green jackets on…
PRESS RELEASE ON BEHALF OF JOHN MCDEVITT CCRC REFERS 4 FURTHER CONVICTIONS TO THE COURT OF APPEAL ISSUED BY HARTE COYLE COLLINS, SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES 10TH APRIL 2025 John McDevitt’s lawyer confirmed today that the Criminal Cases Review Commission in Birmingham has referred 4 further convictions dating 1986 to the NI Court of Criminal Appeal…
Harte Coyle Collins make Dalradian Gold Mine Inquiry notes publicly available with support of the PILS Project The Public Local Inquiry into the controversial Dalradian gold mine (‘the Curraghinalt Project’), due to run from January to March 2025, sat for only three of the planned twenty-one days of hearings before procedural failings by the Department…
Soldier ‘more than likely’ shot dead schoolboy, coroner finds Image source,PA MediaImage caption, Patrick Crawford was shot dead while walking through the grounds of the Royal Victoria Hospital in 1975 Published 16 December 2024 An unidentified British Army soldier was responsible “more likely than not” for the fatal shooting of a schoolboy in the grounds…
PRESS RELEASE INQUEST VERDICT INTO THE DEATH OF MASTER PATRICK CRAWFORD (15) KILLED ON 10TH AUGUST 1975 AT RVH ISSUED BY HARTE COYLE COLLINS, SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES 16TH DECEMBER 2024 The inquest verdict into the death of schoolboy Patrick Crawford (15) shot dead in the grounds of the Royal Victoria Hospital on the 10th of…
A Scottish man has been acquitted on a terrorist charge arising from a screenshot of a list of alleged drug dealers in Belfast which he posted on a Republican Facebook page. After deliberating for around 20 minutes on Wednesday, a jury at Belfast Crown Court returned a unanimous ‘not guilty’ verdict against Andrew Stephen Rae.…
PRESS RELEASE FROM CRIMINAL CASE REVIEW COMMISSION (30TH OCTOBER 2024) A case in which police credibility has been questioned has been referred to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC). John McDevitt was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1986, after an attack on members of the British…
Man in court over mother’s murder in Belfast Image source,Pacemaker Published 16 September 2024 A 21-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of his mother in east Belfast on Friday. The body of 43-year-old Rachel Simpson was discovered in a garage beside a property on the Castlereagh Road. Nathan Simpson, of Castlereagh…
