Royal Courts of Justice, Belfast
The Royal Courts of Justice in Chichester Street, Belfast is the home of the Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland established under the Judicature Act 1978. This comprises the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal, High Court of Northern Ireland and the Crown Court in Northern Ireland.History
The building, which was designed by Sir Richard Allison and James Grey West in the Neoclassical style, was built between 1928 and 1933. The building was officially opened by the 3rd Duke of Abercorn, Governor of Northern Ireland in 1933. It suffered from bomb damage in 1989 and again in 1997 but has since been restored. Improvement works at the Royal Courts of Justice were procured under a private finance initiative contract worth circa £30 million in the late 1990s.
