Summary:
Arran is a Barrister-at-law, arbitrator and mediator, a member of the Bar Council of Ireland's ADR and Arbitration Committee, and co-wrote Arbitration Law. He has been a part time law lecturer at Dublin City University, from 2004, teaching in a number of DCU's Schools, a guest lecturer at the Dublin Institute of Technology in 2009, a tutor at the Law Society of Ireland from 2006-2009 and a tutor at the University of Limerick in 2008-9. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of a number of domestic and international arbitral panels. Arran has been involved in 40 Alternative Dispute Resolution processes either at hearing or by giving pre-hearing advices with the sum at issue ranging from €1,000 to €3,000,000. He has contributed 18 articles to journals such as the Bar Review, Commercial Law Practitioner, Irish Law Times and the Employment Law Reports. He has done pro-bono work for FLAC in Dublin and Tipperary, (Dublin's) Northside Community Law Centre and the Bar Voluntary Assistance Scheme.
Outline areas of practise:
Arran has a strong background in Arbitration and EU Law but has a general practice and works in Dublin, Ireland and on the South Eastern circuit (Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford, Wexford and Tipperary). He has full rights of audience in the Republic of Ireland and appears regularly in a range of courts in both civil and criminal matters. Arran has been a member of the Refugee Legal Service Panel of Barristers since 2004, a member of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement's Legal Panel since 2008 and later that year also joined the Department of Defence's Legal Aid Panel. He is a Door Tenant at Guildford Chambers.
Bar, Professional Admissions And Involvement In National Legal Organisations:
2003 Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
2003 Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
2003 Called to the Bar in Dublin, Republic of Ireland.
2004 Accredited as a mediator by Irish Bar Council.
2005 Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Panel of Tutors.
2005-08 Irish Society for European Law Committee Member; Convenor 4th-6th Brian Walsh Memorial Lectures, co-founder ISEL Competition Law Forum.
2008-2010 Member of ISEL Competition Law Forum sub-committee.
2006 Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; sub-committee member of CIArb, in Ireland (from 2006-2008).
2006 Called to the Bar in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2007 Called to the Bar by the Middle Temple, London, England.
2010 Member of the Bar Council's ADR and Arbitration Committee.
Arbitration Panels:
2008 Member of CRCICA Panel Egypt.
2008 Member of WIPO Panel.
2009 Member of FINRA Panel.
Whilst they do not maintain Panels- Arran has been appointed by the CIArb and SIMI (in the Republic of Ireland) to act as an arbitrator.
