Harte Coyle Collins, Solicitors & Advocates have successfully achieved Lexcel accreditation for 2018 to 2019. 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 5th year running. The Partners, Solicitors, Paralegals and support staff at the firm take pride…
Unhappy marriage not grounds for divorce, supreme court rules Tini Owens, who wants to divorce Hugh Owens after 40 years of marriage, loses case Damien Gayle @damiengayle Wed 25 Jul 2018 19.11 BSTFirst published on Wed 25 Jul 2018 11.06 Tini Owens will only be able to divorce her husband in 2020, when they will have been separated…
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…
Harte Coyle Collins, Solicitors & Advocates have successfully achieved Lexcel accreditation for 2017 to 2018. 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 4th year running. The Partners, Solicitors, Paralegals and support staff at the firm take pride…
JOINT PRESS RELEASE FRESH EVIDENCE SUPPORTING WATER TORTURE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THE MOD IN DEATH PENALTY CASE Lawyers for the last man to receive the death penalty in Northern Ireland have today submitted fresh evidence supporting his allegation of water torture to the Crown Solicitors Office, Belfast in support of ongoing civil proceedings against the MOD…
The widow and daughter of 2 Belfast brothers believed to have been shot and injured by the undercover illegal army unit, the Military Reaction Force (MRF), have issued civil proceedings against the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and the Chief Constable of the PSNI. The claims relate to a shooting incident on the Ballymurphy Road on…
Excerpt from Irish News, 12 September 2017: A violent criminal was released on police bail, to an address with no electricity supply to operate his electronic tag, three days before he killed his ex-partner and her friend in a savage attack. The Police Ombudsman has criticised the decision-making in 2013 which led to release from…
Finbarr McGrillen’s partner, Tina Gillespie, and his children Nicole, Kate and Joseph welcome today’s public admission by the Police Ombudsman of the critical Police failures which led to the death of her partner and their loving, gentle and devoted father but remain devastated by the impact of his murder. The Police Ombudsman’s report, investigating the…
