EXPERTISE
James has considerable experience in regulatory law and various aspects of commercial litigation. He has advised a variety of both national and international clients on litigation related matters including product liability, contractual disputes and professional negligence.
James has advised clients on regulatory matters, including professional conduct investigations, regulatory prosecutions and decision making, administrative law and legal proceedings. He has advised clients on aspects of alternative dispute resolution including arbitration and mediation.
James also has experience in corporate matters including oppression applications, derivative actions, shareholder disputes, applications to wind up companies and bankruptcy applications. He has represented financial institutions on various aspects including debt recovery proceedings, possession proceedings and applications to remediate security.
- Experience
- Acting regularly for a statutory regulator in the exercise of their statutory functions relating to professional regulation
- Prosecuting an individual for holding himself out as a professional without having attained the requisite registration
- Acting for a statutory regulator on an appeal to the High Court arising out of a disciplinary action
- Acting for a large professional services firm in defending various judicial review proceedings over a fifteen year period
- Acting for an insurer on the case management of 850 High Court actions and the successful mediation of the dispute.
- Publications
- Significant Amendments to the Rules on the Delivery of a Defence,
The Parchment, Dublin Solicitors' Bar Association Magazine, Issue 94, Winter 2022 - Restatement of the Law on Factors to be Considered by Statutory and Administrative Bodies in Making Decisions
- GAA Disciplinary Committee's Failure to Follow Procedures
- A Review of the Brussels I Recast Regime", NUI Galway Law Review 2022, Volume 1
- A Balancing Act: Responsibility of Statutory Regulators and Court to Consider Competing Rights
- Test for Dishonesty Clarified, The Parchment, Dublin Solicitors' Bar Association Magazine, Issue 91, Spring 2022 (Co-authored with Stephen McLoughlin)
- Security for Cost >
- Clarity on High Court’s Role in Solicitors Strike-Off Applications >
- Appeals to the Supreme Court >
- Brexit and Cross-Border Litigation, Irish Legal News, September 2020
- Major Changes to the Operation of the Courts >
- Recent Consideration by the High Court of Doctors Obligations to Keep up with Professional Competency >
- Appeals to the Supreme Court, The Parchment, Dublin Solicitors' Bar Association Magazine, Issue 84, Summer 2020
- Significant Amendments to the Rules on the Delivery of a Defence,
- Education
- Advanced Diploma in Quasi–Judicial Decision–Making, Honourable Society of the Kings Inns, 2023
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D in Law), University of Limerick, 2023
- Masters of Law (LLM), Northumbria University, 2016
- Bachelor of Law (LLB) (Hons), University of the West of England, 2015
- Admitted as a Solicitor, Law Society of England and Wales, 2015
- Admitted as a Solicitor, Law Society of Northern Ireland, 2015
- Admitted as a Solicitor, Law Society of Ireland, 2014
- Diploma in Commercial Litigation, Law Society of Ireland, 2013
- Diploma in Legal Studies, College of Commerce, 1999
- Professional Memberships
- Dublin Solicitors Bar Association (Litigation Committee)
- Association of Regulatory & Disciplinary Lawyers
- Restructuring & Insolvency Ireland
- Law Society of Ireland
- Law Society of Northern Ireland
- Law Society of England and Wales
