Values and Corporate Social Responsibility

Our Mission

We deliver expert legal services with a straightforward and personable approach tailored to address the specific needs of our clients in a way that sets us apart from our competitors.

Our Core Values

McCartan Turkington Breen strives to live and work by our values whilst amplifying them in our actions to both internal and external stakeholders. We are mindful of our place in the world, the impact we have and how we can make things better. Our firm remains both environmentally and culturally aware. Our actions are guided by the question: How can we help our clients, colleagues and the society in which we operate?

Modern

We are a modern law firm that embraces new technologies and thrives in the fast-paced world of law. We are legal sector thought-leaders and innovators, quick to adapt and ahead of the curve.

Talented

We hire some of the best in the legal sector. We nurture this talent content in the knowledge that the outcome will be an unrivalled service and experience for our clients.

Bold

We have a reputation for aiming high, both for ourselves and our clients. We consistently innovate, evolve and boldly march to the beat of progress. This mindset runs through the fabric of the firm. No challenge is too large. Bring it on!

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

McCartan Turkington Breen believes in giving back to our communities. We proudly work with or sponsor several local sporting teams, events and initiatives. Each year, we carefully select one charity partner to particularly champion and support.

Our 2024 charity partner is Hope House Ireland

Our 2023 charity partner was the Northern Ireland Hospice

We sponsor the Belfast Harlequins RFC

We sponsor Rosario FC

We sponsor Cooke Collegians Cricket Club

We sponsor Bredagh GAC

We sponsor Peak Performance Academy

Quality Management System (QMS)

The Partners of McCartan Turkington Breen are conscious of the need to:

• Achieve, sustain and improve the quality requirements in a manner that will continually meet the stated need of the practice’s clients in a cost-effective way.
• Provide a documented assurance to clients/interested parties that the intended level of service will be, is being and has been achieved.
• Ensure that the resources required are available and that the QMS achieves its intended results.
• Support staff in their management roles.
• Establish and maintain a commitment to continual improvement in quality performance, by setting and reviewing objectives and targets.
• Comply with relevant legislation and other requirements that the practice subscribes to, in order to pursue the desired quality of service.

To achieve these objectives, the Managing Partner has decided to implement a QMS conforming to the standards of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). You can learn more about ISO standards here.

Environmental impact

We are conscious of our environmental impact and strive toward reducing our carbon emissions and becoming a paperless office. To mitigate operating in a sector that has roots in antiquity, we have a partnership with a local company that securely destroys and recycles paper documents that we cannot do without due to current court rules.

Breastfeeding Welcome Here Scheme

We are the first law firm in Northern Ireland to be included in the Department of Health and Social Care Public Health Agency’s Breast Feeding Welcome Here Scheme. This means that our premises are a space where mothers are made to feel welcome to feed their babies. It highlights our commitment to our clients and progressive attitude towards their individual needs.

Our policies on breastfeeding ensure that:

• Breastfeeding is acceptable in all areas of our premises that are open to the general public.
• A mother who is breastfeeding in an area of the premises open to the general public will not be asked to move to another area or stop breastfeeding. However, if they ask for a private area and rooms are available, we will cater to this request if we can.
• All staff members are supportive of the needs of breastfeeding mothers.

Accessibility

We are committed to our belief that disability should never be a barrier to accessing legal advice. We ensure our offices are accessible and will always make the necessary provisions required to offer our services at the highest standard to everyone, regardless of disability.

Supplier due diligence

We only utilise the products and services of suppliers that we believe are ethically sound and do not, to the best of our and their knowledge, engage in any practice that does not meet the standards of our supply chain. We are particularly observant of modern slavery, human trafficking, money laundering and bribery. We will not tolerate any such actions in our supply chain and will terminate the relationship with any supplier should we discover evidence that these actions exist. We will report any such action to the relevant authority if we believe a law has been broken. Where possible, we will engage with local suppliers in an effort to better our communities for everyone in them.

Equal opportunities

We are a diverse team that works in a diverse environment and we believe we are better for it. Immutable characteristics are not, and never will be, a factor when we are expanding our supply chain or accepting instruction from clients. We are an equal opportunities employer and have adopted employment policies that show our commitment to this principle.

CSR Partners

If you would like to request support of any nature from McCartan Turkington Breen, please provide us with your written proposal containing:

1. Your organisation’s details, mission statement and charity number if applicable.
2. A breakdown of where financial and nonfinancial resources will be used.
3. Any examples of visual, audio or video assets pertaining to previous or ongoing partnerships.

Please email your proposal to legal@mtb-law.co.uk with the subject line, “CSR Partnership”.

We receive a high volume of requests and are unable to support or respond to all of them. We reserve the right to choose our CSR partners at our discretion but without discrimination.