The family of Thomas Aquinas Burns have been granted leave by the High Court in Belfast to challenge the original 1973 inquest verdict of “misadventure”. Thomas Burns was shot by a British soldier as he left the Glenpark Social Club in North Belfast on the 12th July 1972. He died from the gunshot the following…
Harte Coyle Collins, Solicitors & Advocates have successfully achieved Lexcel accreditation for 3 years from 2019 to 2022. The firm, which first received the stamp of excellence by the Law Society accredited assessment body Lexcel in 2013 retained the quality benchmark for the 6th year running. The Partners, Solicitors, Paralegals and support staff at the…
PRESS RELEASE JR83 BREXIT CHALLENGE PETITION TO SUPREME COURT 9th OCTOBER 2019 A woman from Derry, ciphered as the anonymous Applicant JR83 by the Court, has lodged a Petition for Leave to the Supreme Court in London asking it to adjudicate on a Brexit challenge specific to Northern Ireland. In the Petition to the Supreme…
The supreme court has ruled that Boris Johnson’s advice to the Queen that parliament should be prorogued for five weeks at the height of the Brexit crisis was unlawful. The unanimous judgment from 11 justices on the UK’s highest court followed an emergency three-day hearing last week that exposed fundamental legal differences over interpreting the country’s unwritten constitution. The…
Patricia Coyle, acting on behalf of client Liam Holden, today welcomed the judgement in the case of the Hooded Men delivered by the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal on Friday 20th September 2019. Instructed by her client she stated; “My client was the victim of water boarding carried out by the British army in October…
PRESS RELEASE ON BEHALF OF ANONYMOUS APPLICANT Brexit Court Challenge – Hearing Date Friday 6th September 2019 A court challenge by an Applicant living in a border area in Northern Ireland is listed for hearing by the High Court in Belfast tomorrow morning Friday 6th September 2019. The case is one of three cases due…
Loughinisland: Raid warrants on journalists to be quashed Warrants to carry out raids on the homes and offices of two Belfast journalists are to be quashed, the High Court has ruled. Authorisation for the searches that led to the arrests of Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey were inappropriate, senior judges said. A further hearing will…
The Court challenge by journalists and producers Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey of their arrests and the searches of their home and business premises is due to commence at the High Court in Belfast tomorrow 28th May 2019 and listed to run before a 2 Judge Court for at least 3 days. The US…
PRESS RELEASE BY HARTE COYLE COLLINS, SOLICITORS US Reporters Committee for Freedom of Press supports ‘No Stone Unturned’ filmmakers’ Trevor Birney & Barry McCaffrey High Court search warrant Challenge The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is calling on the Belfast High Court in Northern Ireland to find the police raids of filmmakers’ homes…
A conviction for drink-driving in 2005 which resulted in the wrong man going to jail for the crime, was quashed by HH Judge Finnegan at Belfast County Court today. The Criminal Cases Review Commission referred the drink driving conviction of William Smith to the County Court in Northern Ireland earlier this year on the basis…
