Barrister Profile

Main Areas of Practice

Administrative Law or Judicial Review
Criminal Law
Licensing
Personal Injury

Biography

Practitioner in the following areas of law: Criminal, Criminal Injury, Health & Safety at Work, Judicial Review, Pharmaceutica Licensing, Negligence & General Tort, Personal Injuries, Professional & Medical Negligence, Taxation.

Qualifications

1995; LL.B (Hons) 1st Class

1996; Institute of Professional Legal Studies

1997; Called to the Bar of Northern Ireland

2005 - present; Tutor in Criminal law at Institute of Professional Legal Studies

2001; Called to the Bar of Ireland

Experience

I practice widely as a criminal defence practitioner in the Magistrates Court, Crown Court and Court of Appeal. I also have a varied practice in personal injury litigation acting for both plaintiff litigants and defendant insurance companies. I have very extensive experience in Pharmaceutical Licensing cases acting for both Applicants and Objectors before the National Appeals Panel and in the Judicial Review Court. I regularly undertake this type of specialist work before the National Appeals Panel.