- Mediator
- Accrediting Body: CEDR
- Direct Professional Access:
- Not provided
Biography
Mark O’Riordan is a Barrister, Mediator, and Trust & Estate Practitioner specialising in the areas of succession law, probate, trusts, and equity. He read law at University College Dublin (BCL 1999; and LLM by research thesis 2003) and the Hon Society of King’s Inns (BL 2001). At University College Dublin, he was Faculty of Law Scholar and Government of Ireland Scholar.
Mark was a founding committee member of the Probate Bar Association of Ireland, and remains a member of the Association. He is a CEDR accredited Mediator.
Mark is a member of the Council of the Hon Society of King’s Inns.
Mark is a member of the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners (STEP), and is a member of the Medico-Legal Society of Ireland.
Recent Cases & Legal Work
Re McCulloch deceased [2025] IEHC 400
Re AB deceased; CB v PP & JJ [2024] IEHC 217
PF v BH – Section 117 [2023] IECC 9
Re Healy deceased [2022] IEHC 49
Re McPartlan deceased [2020] IEHC 447
Re K deceased; K v K [2019] 2 ILRM 23
Re Hannon deceased [2018] 3 IR 402
Daly v Murphy [2017] IEHC 650
Re Earls deceased; Laaser v Earls & Anor [2016] IECA 63
Lynn v O’Hara Lynn & Anor [2015] IEHC 689
Re H deceased; S v H & Ors [2010] IEHC 70
Re Flannery deceased; Flannery v Flannery [2009] IEHC 31
Publications
Consolidated Landlord and Tenant Legislation (Clarus Press, 2007)
Legal Researcher on the following Law Reform Commission publications:
LRC 67-2002 Report Series: Title by adverse possession of land
LRC 66-2002 Report Series: The acquisition of easements and profits a prendre by prescription
LRC CP 21-2003 Consultation Paper Series: Business tenancies
LRC CP 28-2003 Consultation Paper Series: General law of landlord and tenant
LRC 70-2003 Report Series: Land law and conveyancing law: (7) positive covenants over freehold land and other proposals
LRC CP 30-2004 Consultation Paper Series: Judgment mortgages
LRC CP 34-2004 Consultation Paper Series: Reform and modernisation of land law and conveyancing law
Speeches & Lectures
- Probate Bar Association Annual Conference – Case Law Update – 2024
- Conradh na Gaeilge Uacht – Cad is Gá ó Thaobh an Dlí – 2024
- Law Society Non-Contentious Probate Practice – 2023
- Stephenson Probate Seminar Love & War – Trusts and Trustees – 2023
- Medico-Legal Society of Ireland Capacity to Execute a Will or Enduring Power of Attorney – 2021
- Probate Bar Association Social Welfare and Discretionary Trusts – 2021
- Midland Bar Association Practice and Procedure and Case Law Update – 2019
- Solicitors for the Elderly & Law Society of Ireland Practice and Procedure – 2019
- Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) Annual Conference – Probate and Succession Law – 2018
- Kildare Bar Association 2016
- Irish Family Law Association Annual Conference Succession Law and the Modern Family – 2016
Contact Form
Contact
- Mobile
- 087-286 2744
- moriordan@lawlibrary.ie
- Address
- Law Library Four Courts Dublin 7 Dublin
- DX
- 810277