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.


Chair: Siobhra Rush

Vice-Chair: Ronnie Neville

Members

  • Susan Battye
  • Geraldine Carr
  • Maura Connolly
  • Áine Curran
  • Michael Doyle
  • Wendy Doyle
  • Dónal Hamilton
  • Nichola Harkin
  • Joanne Hyde
  • Janice Kavanagh
  • Karen Killalea
  • Ciara McLoughlin
  • Deirdre Malone
  • Sinead Morgan
  • Sonya Morrissy Murphy
  • Peter Murphy
  • Louise O’Byrne
  • Anne O’Connell
  • Catherine O’Flynn
  • Breda O’Malley
  • Jennifer O’Neill
  • Jane O’Sullivan
  • Barry Reynolds
  • Emily Sexton
  • Barry Walsh

Secretary: Geraldine Rafferty.


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.

  • feed into the professional practice course modules in the interests of effective training of solicitors in pensions law.

Template PAO Order

Download a Template Pension Adjustment Order (includes explanatory memorandum). 

Members & Secretary

Chair: Orla Ormsby              

  • Jane Barrett

  • Liam Connellan

  • Lorna Duffy

  • Stephen Gillick

  • Lydia Leonard

  • James McConville

Secretary: Geraldine Rafferty


Current issues on the Committee's agenda include:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Please email any queries to the Committee Secretary, Geraldine Rafferty