Barrister Profile

Main Areas of Practice

Administrative Law or Judicial Review
Criminal Law
Employment Law
Family Law

Biography

Aoife was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 2020 and is currently accepting instructions in all areas of law.

She completed a predominantly family pupillage but also acquired experience in the following areas of practice: Employment Law, Immigration, Human Rights, Criminal Law, Judicial Review and Inquests, and Personal Injury.

Qualifications

2020; Degree of Barrister-at-Law, The Honourable Society of the Inn of Court of Northern Ireland

2020; Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Legal Studies, Institute of Professional Legal Studies, Queens University Belfast (Distinction).

• Inn of Court Prize

2019; LLM Human Rights and Criminal Justice, Queen’s University Belfast (Commendation).

2018; LLB (Hons) Law with European Legal Studies, Newcastle University (II.I)

2016-2017; Erasmus Study Program - International Law at the Universitet i Oslo.

Experience

Whilst studying at the Institute of Professional Legal Studies, Aoife was chosen to compete as an advocate in the Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.