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Rebecca Hanratty , BL

The Bar of Ireland
Rebecca is a Practising Barrister at the Bar of Ireland. She obtained a Law & French Law Degree from Trinity College Dublin, during which time she studied at the Université de Strasbourg in France. Rebecca practices in general civil law and has a special interest in the areas of personal injuries and medical law. She is also a recipient of the Denham Fellowship. 

Practice Area

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Qualified Year

  • 2020

Experience

  • Lecturer - City Colleges Dublin (January 2023 - Present)
  • Assistant Lecturer - TUD (September 2022 - January 2023)
  • Tutor – University College Dublin (January 2022 - January 2023)

Membership

  • British Irish Commercial Bar Association – Committee Member

Qualifications

  • LL.B (ling. Franc.) (2019)
  • BL (2020)
  • Certificate for Bioethics (2021)

Education

  • Trinity College Dublin (2019)
  • The Honourable Society of King’s Inns (2020)
  • Harvard - EdX (2021)

1 Contributions by Rebecca Hanratty

Determining Irish civil jurisdiction in cross-border litigation: practitioner checklist on Brussels I (recast), Lugano 2007 and the Hague Choice of Court Agreements Convention
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Determining Irish civil jurisdiction in cross-border litigation: practitioner checklist on Brussels I (recast), Lugano 2007 and the Hague Choice of Court Agreements Convention
This Checklist offers guidance on how to determine whether an Irish court has jurisdiction to deal with the specific civil dispute. This Checklist explains how to assess jurisdiction for a particular civil dispute in Ireland. In doing so, it reviews the regimes under Brussels I (recast), the Lugano Convention and the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements. It sets out a high-level overview to help decide whether proceedings ought properly to be brought in Ireland. For guidance on: the particular court in which to issue proceedings, see Practice Note: Ireland-Starting a civil action pre-action considerations before pursuing a civil claim in an Irish court, and the steps to commence and advance a claim in Ireland, see Practice Notes: Ireland-Starting a civil action and Ireland-Pre-action conduct; and for initiating and case managing a civil claim, see Ireland-Progressing and managing a High Court civil claim further elements of Irish civil litigation, see: Ireland-Alternative dispute resolution and settlement-overview, which links to detailed guidance on specific aspects of dispute resolution in Ireland Read this Checklist alongside Practice Notes: Ireland-Cross-border litigation and Ireland-Jurisdiction in civil litigation, which provide additional direction on the issues outlined above...
Ireland - Dispute Resolution
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