Barrister Profile

Main Areas of Practice

Administrative Law or Judicial Review
Coroners or Inquests
Criminal Law
Extradition

Biography

Turlough was called to the Bar in 2017 and enjoyed a pupilage primarily focused in Criminal Law and currently accepts instructions in all of areas of law.

He has particular experience representing defendants in criminal proceedings at Magistrates’ Court, County Court, and Crown Court level. He is also instructed on behalf of a number of appellants challenging their convictions in the Court of Appeal of Northern Ireland.

Turlough regularly appears before the Parole Commissioners for Northern Ireland on behalf of prisoners seeking release and has experience successfully representing indeterminate custodial, and life sentence prisoners. Turlough also appears before the Mental Health Review Tribunal on behalf of patients detained under The Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 who are seeking discharge.

Qualifications

2015; LL.B Law; Queen’s University Belfast, Second Class Honours, First Division

​2017; Postgraduate Diploma, Institute of Professional Legal Studies, Commendation

2017; Degree of Barrister-at-Law, The Honourable Society of the Inn of Court of Northern Ireland

2017; Inn of Court Prize, The Honourable Society of the Inn of Court of Northern Ireland

2017; Diageo Prize for Licensing, Institute of Professional Legal Studies

2017; Eoin Higgins Moot