Harte Coyle Collins, Solicitors & Solicitor Advocates, are proud to announce the 10 year anniversary of the firm’s award for excellence in arrest procedure to trainee solicitors and barristers at the Institute of Professional Legal Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast.
Harte Coyle Collins Solicitors & Solicitor Advocates, successfully challenged the failure of the Public Prosecution Service to prosecute a suspect in respect of an allegation of rape. The Children & Family Law Department obtained a court finding of fact in the Domestic Court in November 2011 that their client had been raped. This finding of fact was decided by the court during an application for a Non-Molestation Order on behalf of the client. The court, in a rare step, granted the client a 10 year Non-Molestation Order. Such Orders are usually only granted for periods of 12 to 18 months.
Harte Coyle Collins, Solicitors & Solicitor Advocates represent trade unionist, socialist and immigration lawyer Barbara Muldoon. Ms Muldoon, an anti-racism campaigner, faces criminal charges for taking part in an ANR protest in 2009. Campaigners say the charges are an attack on the right to peaceful protest in Northern Ireland and urge the Director of Public Prosecution to drop them immediately. A range of groups and individuals, including well known human rights advocates, trade union leaders, academics and campaigners are calling on the Director of the Public Prosecution Service to withdraw a criminal charge against anti-racism campaigner Barbara Muldoon for her involvement at a protest which took place in Belfast on 22 October 2009.
Solicitors acting for a number of suspects who complained about the failure of the police to give an assurance that their legal consultations with clients were not bugged today received a decision from the House of Lords on the legality of bugging in police stations and prisons.
Harte Coyle Collins, Solicitors & Solicitor Advocates, acting on behalf of the family of a 33 year old single woman murdered in Belfast in 1976 have obtained funding to commission a review of the original post-mortem evidence.
Harte Coyle Collins, Solicitors & Solicitor Advocates, acting on behalf of the family of Annette mcGavigan, a 14 year old shoolgirl killed by the British Army in Derry in 1971, confirmed today that they have written to a all relevant statutory bodies seeking disclosure of all files and documents in relation to her murder. Annette McGavigan was killed by members of the British Army in Abbey Street, Derry on the 6th September 1971.
