Barrister Profile
MICHAEL MCCARTAN
Year of Call: 2014
Main Areas of Practice
Administrative Law or Judicial Review
Coroners or Inquests
Human Rights
Personal Injury
Biography
After a career in the Criminal Justice sector, called to the Bar in 2014.
Representing Plaintiffs in Historical Institutional Abuse related High Court personal injury claims.
Representing Plaintiffs in Data Breach proceedings - personal details of HIAI were revealed in an e-mail sent from the HIA Interim Advocate’s Office (IAO).
Coroners Service B Panel of Counsel. Instructed on behalf of the Coroner and the next of kin in both legacy and non-legacy inquests. Member of Coroner’s counsel team in the Ballymurphy Inquest.
Member of Government Legal Services ‘B’ Panel. Instructed in Medical Negligence personal injury claims.
Instructed in Parole Commissioners, Criminal Injury Compensation Appeals, SENDIST and Immigration Tribunals cases.
Qualifications
LL.B (First Class Honours), University of Ulster
Post Graduate Diploma in Professional Legal Studies, Institute of Professional Legal Studies, Queens University, Belfast
2014; Benchers Prize for Advocacy
Experience
Notable Cases
Jenkins, Karina Sousa Pinheiro; in re application for judicial review [2019] NIQB 87
Fosberry (nee Reid), Ellen v The Poor Sisters of Nazareth [2018] NIQB 78
Court’s power to over-ride the fixed time limit for a personal injury cause of action accruing in the case of a minor plaintiff.
Baby L; in re an inquest [2017] NICoroner 11
The jurisdiction of the Coroner to hold an inquest into a stillbirth.