Barrister Profile
CIARA O’NEILL
Year of Call: 2019
Main Areas of Practice
Administrative Law or Judicial Review
Criminal Law
Family Law
Personal Injury
Biography
Ciara was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 2019 and completed pupillage with a criminal defence and personal injury practitioner.
She is currently accepting instructions in all areas of law.
Qualifications
2019; Degree of Barrister-at-Law, The Honourable Society of the Inn of Court of Northern Ireland
2019; Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Legal Studies, Institute of Professional Legal Studies, Queen’s University Belfast (Distinction)
- Benchers’ Advocacy Prize
- Eoin Higgins Prize (Top Barrister Trainee)
- JPB Maxwell Scholarship (First Placed Bar Trainee)
- Elliott Duffy Garrett Prize (Highest Standard in Company Law Examination)
2018; LL.B. (Hons) Law with Criminology, Ulster University (First Class Honours)
- Robert G Sinclair Prize (Highest Achieving Final Year Law Student)
- Higgins Hollywood Deazley Prize (Highest Achiever in Medical Law)
- No Alibis Prize (Highest Achiever in Company Law)
- Pinsent Masons Prize (Highest Achiever in Contract Law)
- Thompson Reuters Prize (Highest Achiever in European Union Law)
- Pinsent Masons Prize (Highest Achieving Second Year Law Student)
Experience
2019; Benchers’ Moot Competition
2019; Faculty of Advocates and Northern Irish Bar Moot Competition, hosted by the Faculty of Advocates, Scotland