Partners Steven Rees Davies and Matthew Grigg advised on the licence application, with the assistance of counsel Charissa Ball and associate Michelle Meyer.
Criminals who try to evade the final moment of justice will be ordered into the dock to attend their sentencing - and will face longer behind bars if they refuse to appear.
Mr Justice Humphreys, sitting today in the High Court in Belfast, dismissed an application for judicial review of decisions taken by the Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to grant licences for a proposed development of seven natural gas storage caverns to be located under Larne Lough.