Administrative Law or Judicial Review
Commercial Law
Company Law
Land Law
As Senior Counsel (QC) since December 2001 I have concentrated on commercial, chancery and public law. My work embraces strategic advice as well as litigation, arbitration and mediation. I have acted for banks, public companies (plc) and private business as well as the Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly and local and central government. I also undertake cases in the Lands Tribunal, rates appeals, rent reviews, arbitrations and planning appeals.
Outside of the law I am involved with charities active in the developing world.
LL.B Queen’s University Belfast
Barrister at Law
Queen’s Counsel
Lecturer in law at University of Ulster [part time until 1985]
Member of the Council of Law Reports Northern Ireland
Member Chancery Court Liaison Committee
Planning Appeals Commission [PAC]
Member of Independent Complaints Appeal Panel
Member of CARB, the all Ireland disciplinary body for accountants
1998; Called to the Bar of Ireland
My recent caseload includes work for • Facebook • High Street Banks, including: AIB, Bank of Ireland, Danske Bank, IRBC, NAMA, Ulster Bank and The Royal Bank of Scotland • Norbrook Laboratories Ltd • KPMG and insolvency practitioners • The Official Receiver for Northern Ireland • Local government including Lisburn City Council; the District Councils for Antrim, Ards and Castlereagh • Northern Ireland Water Limited (NIW) • NCP • The Northern Ireland Transport Holding Company • DOE Planning Service • Land and Property Services and the Commissioner of Valuation for Northern Ireland
I have published in the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly (NILQ)