A Newry woman has launched a High Court challenge to her Widowed Parent’s Allowance being allegedly stopped because she began living with another man. Marina Lennon’s lawyers claim the benefit she received following the death of her first husband was Read more…
John Neale, 51, Gerard Flannigan, 37, and Joseph Tully, 51, appeared at Belfast Magistrates’ Court over an alleged plot to raid a Boojum burrito bar. The three Belfast men have had the charges against them dismissed with the judge ruling Read more…
McIvor Farrell solicitors are challenging a Public Prosecution Service (PPS) offer to have a senior barrister carry out a further evaluation into the 1997 killing of Raymond McCord Jr. The current challenge follows proceedings against the PPS for failing to Read more…
Victim’s Campaigner Raymond McCord is mounting legal challenges in Belfast and Dublin on the basis that current criteria for calling a referendum on a ‘border poll’ is vague and UK Secretary of State has “unfettered discretion”. Mr McCord is mounting Read more…
McIvor Farrell are representing the group “Safe Electricity A&T (SEAT)” who claim that approval should be not have been given to the 85 miles of overhead cables and pylons of the proposed Noth-South Interconnector. Solicitor Paul Farrell representing SEAT, said: Read more…
Belfast Solicitors McIvor Farrell were delighted to be involved in the inaugural Raymond McCord Jnr Forum that was convened recently at Queens University Belfast to address the lack of political progress of concern to a cross section of the community Read more…
As part of our community outreach programme we believe in supporting law students achieve their full potential and to reward their academic endeavours. For the past number of years therefore we have presented a bursary to the Best Performing Student Read more…
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is failing to enforce civil injunction orders granted by the Northern Ireland courts, a Belfast-based solicitor has claimed. Solicitor Ciaran O’Hare of McIvor Farrell Solicitors is acting in a judicial review against the Read more…
Belfast Solicitor Paul Farrell speaking to Reuters, and widely reported on websites such as the Daily Mail, has described how the suspension of the Stormont Assembly could impact the Brexit negotiations. Solicitor Advocate Paul Farrell explained that “in the current Read more…
Solicitor Advocate Paul Farrell received high praise from The Crown Court in a recent case involving the smuggling of drugs into prison. He was able to draw on relevant case law and strong mitigation on behalf of the Defendant which Read more…