• Employment Equality Law
• Reorganisations
• Complex Terminations
• Investigations

Catherine advises many of Ireland’s biggest domestic and multi-national companies and employers.

Catherine also often advises senior executives in relation to employment law cases and exit terms.

Authorships

Catherine has written the Irish sections for employment law handbooks in association with several international law firms and is a regular contributor to publications such as the Irish Times and the Sunday Business Post. With her last law firm, she was the co-author of several employment reports on the topics of social media and age in the workplace.

Engagements

• Former Chair and committee member of the Law Society of Ireland’s Employment and Equality Law Committee.
• Lecturer in Employment Law on the Law Society’s Professional Course and Diploma in Employment Law

Education

• Trinity College Dublin, Employment Law LLB
• University College Dublin, Diploma Employment Law

Professional Memberships

• Law Society of Ireland
• Association of Employment Lawyers Ireland
• European Employment Lawyers Association
• Employment Lawyers Association of Ireland

• Advising a senior executive of a regulated financial institution on their exit terms and the related regulatory matters that arose.

• Represented a large retail client in its successful defence of an employment equality claim and related personal injury proceedings.

• Advised a major technology company in its defence and subsequent settlement of an unfair dismissals claim and related complaint to the Data Protection Commissioner.

• Represented a client in its successful application for an Anton Pillar Order against a former employee, and their new company, who had set up in competition with their former employer. Such orders are rarely granted in Ireland.

• Acted in the seminal Labour Court case which clarified the method of calculation of continuous service for the purposes of bringing a claim under the Unfair Dismissals legislation.