The Bar of Ireland
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Patrick's legal education is robust, beginning with a BCL Law Degree from University College Cork (2012-2016), followed by an LL.M in Business Law from the same institution (2016-2017), and culminating in a Barrister-at-Law Degree from The Honorable Society of King’s Inns in Dublin (2019-2021). He has extensive experience on the South-West Circuit, handling Civil, Family, and Criminal Law cases, as well as advising the Citizen Advice Service. He has worked as an employment consultant, dealing with workplace investigations and bankruptcy procedures.
WRC found that the university did not discriminate on gender or age grounds in rejecting a 2022 professorial promotion application.
The Complainant, a long-serving academic at the University of Galway, alleged that she had been discriminated against on the grounds of gender and age when her 2022 application for promotion to “Professor in …” was rejected. She had begun as a temporary teaching appointee in 1994, moved to a fixed-term lecturer post in 2003, and in 2005 had her lecturer title and research duties removed without consent. After a 2015 Equality Tribunal ruling, the university reinstated her lecturer contract, and she was promoted to Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in 2017. In 2022 she sought professorial promotion but was
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Conducting Workplace Investigations and Alternative Conflict Resolution Methods