• Healthcare

• Healthcare
• Wardship
• Criminal law
• Child protection

• Doctors, social workers health and social care providers
• Directors, managers and institutions requiring criminal law advice
• Directors, managers and institutions providing services to children or vulnerable adults

Engagements

• Law Lectures in Trinity School of Social Work and Social Policy Undergraduate and Master Courses
• Lectures on Law Society Diplomas in Mental Health and Child Law
• Lectures to Public Sector Clients, Public Affairs Ireland

Education

• UCD & Melbourne University, BCL (International)
• UCD, Diploma in Human Rights
• UCD, Diploma in Arbitration
• CEDR Accredited Mediator

Professional Memberships

• Member of the Law Society and Dublin Solicitors Bar Association
• Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
• Admitted as a Solicitor to the Senior Courts of England and Wales
• Member of Law Society Technology Committee

• We represent a number of Local Authorities nationwide in the area of Waste Management Prosecutions. Such proceedings form an important part of the national waste priorities of the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications.

• Representing Health Authorities in a High Court challenges to the Mental Health Act 2001.

• Representing Health Authorities in complex and ongoing High Court wardship proceedings arising from alleged mistreatment of family members of a vulnerable adult.

• Representing Health Authorities in complex public international law cases involving the placement of severely unwell patients in secure psychiatric settings in the United Kingdom.

• Advising Health Authorities, hospitals, and other clients on the implementation of the Assisted Decision Making and Capacity Act 2022.

• Representing Child Protection Authorities in complex High Court proceedings relating to the detention and treatment of at risk children.

• Representing a hospital in opposing the disclosure of historical counselling records of the complainant in rape proceedings before the Central Criminal Court.

• Representing a hospital in Supreme Court action described as the most significant children's rights decision of Irish courts in 15 years.

• Led Mason Hayes & Curran's regulatory criminal prosecution team advising and acting in food hygiene, tobacco, environmental and other regulatory criminal prosecutions.