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Employment & Equality Law
Role of the Committee
It aims to keep practitioners informed of developments in national and European law to support them in maintaining expertise in this area of practice. This is done through Gazette and eZine articles, and CPD seminars.
Membership of the committee is drawn from a wide range of firms and organisations. This ensures that there is a significant resource of opinion and expertise and a voice for all constituencies.
Members and Secretary
Chair: Ronnie Neville
Vice-Chair: Susan Battye
Members
- Maura Connolly
- Áine Curran
- Michael Doyle
- Wendy Doyle
- Sarah Faulkner
- Dónal Hamilton
- Louise Harrison
- Nichola Harkin
- Janice Kavanagh
- Karen Killalea
- Anne Lyne
- Deirdre Malone
- Sinead Morgan
- Sonya Morrissy Murphy
- Peter Murphy
- Anne O’Connell
- Éinde O’Donnell
- Jane O’Sullivan
- Barry Reynolds
- Siobhra Rush
- Emily Sexton
- Barry Walsh
- Emmet Whelan
Secretary: Geraldine Rafferty
Pensions Sub-Committee
This is a sub-committee of the Employment and Equality Law Committee. The sub-committee's aims are to:
- review and comment upon developments in case law and legislation relating to pension matters and disseminate that commentary to the membership.
- provide a forum for solicitors to have recourse to, when seeking direction in matters of difficulty concerning pension law practise.
- make representations, where appropriate, to third parties insofar as the interests of the membership of the Law Society are concerned; and
- feed into the professional practice course modules in the interests of effective training of solicitors in pensions law.
Members and Secretary
Chair: James McConville
- Jane Barrett
- Liam Connellan
- Peter Doyle
- Stephen Gillick
- Lydia Leonard
- Orla Ormsby
Secretary: Jonathan Patel
Current issues
Current issues on the Committee's agenda include:
- Pension sub-committee In 2009, the Committee established a new sub-committee to deal specifically with the issue of pensions. The remit of the sub-committee is to monitor legislative and case law developments and to advise the profession on relevant pension related matters.
- Employment Rights Review The Committee continues to monitor the reform of the State’s workplace relations structures and to monitor the implications of the Workplace Relations Act, 2015.
Contact Us
Please email any queries to the Committee Secretary, Geraldine Rafferty
