PRESS RELEASE RE BREXIT CHALLENGE ISSUED 5th December 2020 HARTE COYLE COLLINS, SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES, BELFAST A border citizen in Northern Ireland has launched a legal challenge against the Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking the High Court in Belfast to adjudicate whether he has acted in bad faith and for improper purpose in relation to…
Last man to get death sentence in Northern Ireland wins court battle over murdered soldier’s inquest papers The last man to be handed the death penalty in Northern Ireland has won a High Court battle over disclosure of inquest documents. A judge ruled that a scheme which required a binding undertaking of confidentiality before releasing files…
PRESS RELEASE RE BREXIT CHALLENGE ISSUED 9th NOVEMBER 2020 BY HARTE COYLE COLLINS, SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES, BELFAST A citizen of Northern Ireland has launched a legal challenge against the Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking the High Court in Belfast to adjudicate on the claim by the citizen that he has acted in bad faith and…
Harte Coyle Collins Welcomes Family Lawyer Caitlín Brown Caitlín Brown is from Belfast and graduated with an LLB (Hons) in Law from John Moores University, Liverpool in 2016. She attended Queens University Institute of Professional Legal Studies from 2018 to 2020 graduating with a commendation. She will qualify as a solicitor in October 2020 after…
Appeal for Witnesses re Fatal Shooting of Master Patrick Crawford (15) in Royal Victoria Hospital on the 10th August 1975 The sister and brothers of 15 year old Patrick Crawford who was shot dead while walking through the grounds of the Royal Victoria Hospital on the 10th August 1975 have today launched an appeal to…
Relatives of Shoot to Kill victim Billy Smyth lodge Application to Attorney General for fresh Inquest The son and daughter of William (Billy) Norman Smyth have lodged an application for a fresh inquest into the murder of their father who was shot dead on his doorstep on the 24th October 1978 at Ballynure Street, Belfast. …
Torture Allegation Case involving Water Boarding listed for Trial in Northern Ireland for June 2021 A civil action involving allegations of torture including waterboarding, hooding and threats to kill at gunpoint, has been listed for trial in the High Court in Belfast for a 1 to 2 week hearing on the 1st June 2021. The…
On the 10th July 2020 the High Court in Belfast issued its final judgment in In re Fine Point Films. In May 2019, the Court quashed the search warrants against the filmmakers and journalists Trevor Birney & Barry McCaffrey, who made the film No Stone Unturned. The judgment issued by the Court on the 10th…
PRESIDING CORONER FOR NORTHERN IRELAND LEGACY INQUESTS JUNE 2020 STATEMENT This statement updates the position as regards legacy inquests in light of Covid 19. It is my last statement as Presiding Coroner as Mr Justice Huddleston now assumes the role. At the time of my last statement in April 2020, the courts were only…
Harte Coyle Collins, Solicitors & Advocates are here to help anyone who has been the subject of a data protection breach. Nichola Harte, Litigation Partner, has recently settled a serious and distressing case against a branch of government which breached data protection safeguards resulting in sensitive information being made available to a third party. Here…
