The Yorkshire Legal Awards won by Howard & Byrne YORK-based criminal specialist solicitors Howard & Byrne are celebrating a year of success in which it won a series of honours. It won twice at the annual Yorkshire Legal Awards, taking the Small Firm and the Criminal Firm Awards. It was also named in the annual The Times Best Law Firms list of the top 200 solicitors' firms of England and Wales for the first time, in the financial crime, fraud and regulatory section. Senior partner Colin Byrne was appointed counsel to the International Criminal Court at The Hague this year. The firm also continued its tradition of being listed in two national directories of the countries' leading law firms The Legal 500 and Chambers.