Two solicitors granted Patents of Precedence
The Government has granted Patents of Precedence to 28 lawyers, allowing them to use the title of Senior Counsel (SC).
The list includes two solicitors – Duncan Inverarity (small picture) and Gerard Kelly.
Inverarity is a partner in A&L Goodbody's employment-law, while Kelly is co-head of dispute resolution at Mason Hayes & Curran.
Patents of Precedence, which recognise legal skills and expertise, are granted under the terms of the by the Government, on the advice of an advisory committee.
The committee consists of the Chief Justice, the President of the Court of Appeal, the President of the High Court, the Attorney General, the chair of the Bar Council, the President of the Law Society, and a lay member of the Legal Services Regulatory Authority nominated by the Minister for Justice.
The barristers named are:
- Michael O’Donnell,
- Barry Doherty,
- Kilda Mooney,
- Gráinne Lee,
- Patricia Hill,
- Jeananne McGovern,
- David O'Dwyer,
- Proinsias Ó Maolchalain,
- Rory White,
- Mary-Jo Butler,
- Conall MacCarthy,
- Seamus Breen,
- Cormac MacNamara,
- Garrett McCormack,
- Michael Binchy,
- James Burke,
- Diarmuid Collins,
- Conor J O’Doherty,
- Shelley Horan,
- Alan Brady,
- Mark William Murphy,
- Morgan Shelley,
- Marc Thompson Grolimund,
- Andrew Whelan,
- Kevin John White, and
- Diana Stuart.