Morgan Shelley BL

Qualifications:

BBLS

Areas of Practice:

Specialisation:

Recent Cases & Legal Work

DPP v MJ [2024] 1 IR 523 – Supreme Court – Sentencing principles
DPP v Lane [2024] IESC 30 – Supreme Court – Statements by co-accused – “Route to Verdict”
DPP v John Dundon [2024] IECA 311 – Murder – Newly discovered evidence
DPP v McQuillan [2024] IECA 249 – Consecutive sentencing
DPP v RD [2024] IECA 124 – Sentencing of sexual offences
DPP v GOH & EOH [2023] IECA 300 – Jury questions – Re-charging of jury
DPP v SA [2023] IECA 171 – Effect of acquired brain injury on sentence – Application of s.40 Domestic Violence Act 2018 to sexual offences
DPP v MOD [2022] IECA 259 – Categorisation of sexual offences
DPP v Masznicz [2022] IECA 237 – Judge’s charge on legal concept of possession
DPP v AM [2021] IECA 322 – Use of comparators in sentencing
DPP v OB [2020] IECA 329 – Weight to be afforded to mitigation in sentencing
DPP v PB [2020] IECA 158 – Treatment of possibility of collusion in judge’s charge
DPP v DF [2020] IECA 144 – Jury bias
DPP v TG [2020] IECA 26 – Delay warning

DPP v Kiely – Circuit Criminal Court 2025 – Fraud of c.€2 million (5 weeks)
DPP v X – Circuit Criminal Court 2023 – Sexual offences (as lead junior counsel, 2 weeks)
DPP v Silver – Central Criminal Court 2023 – Capital Murder (6 weeks)
DPP v Y – Circuit Criminal Court 2022 – Sexual offences, multiple complainants (4 weeks)
DPP v DO – Circuit Criminal Court 2021 – Organised crime, money laundering (6 weeks)
DPP v Hunter – Special Criminal Court 2020 – Murder (7 weeks)
DPP v DeBrit – Circuit Criminal Court 2020 – Fraud (3 weeks)
Central Criminal Court: 13 Rape trials 2020-2025
Circuit Criminal Court: 12 trials 2020-2025

Acting for Respondents in the successful mediation of shareholder oppression proceedings in the context of a transnational merger and IPO.
Acting for a public body in the High Court in the defence of 15 judicial review cases.
Acting for a professional firm in the successful mediation of a substantial civil fraud claim.
Advising several public bodies in respect of regulatory, legislative and administrative law matters.
Acting for a public body in 27 High Court cases.
Acting in several contentious bankruptcy matters including AIB v Flynn [2022] IECA 60 (substitution of petitioner) and In re O’Neill Unreported, Pilkington J., 29^th January 2021 (treatment of pension fund in bankruptcy estate).

A Structured Approach to Mental Illness in Sentencing, The Bar Review, April 2025
Report of the Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis, Houses of the Oireachtas, 2016
(Lead author of chapters on the role of the property sector in the banking crisis and the establishment, operation and effectiveness of NAMA)
Personal Insolvency Bill 2012—An Overview, Commercial Law Practitioner, 2012
The National Management Agency Act 2009 – Annotated (Round Hall, 2011) with Dr. Noel McGrath

Rethinking Mental Illness in the Sentencing Process, “Rethinking Justice: Trauma on Trial” MindPieces Conference, Trinity College Dublin, November 2024
Considering mental illness in sentencing – a structured approach, Irish Criminal Bar Association Annual Conference, Athlone, July 2024
The Family Home in Bankruptcy, Family Lawyers Association “Insolvency and Family Law Revisited” CPD, January 2021
Bankruptcy: Procedures, Developments & Reform, Ashville Media Personal Insolvency Conference, Chartered Accountants House, April 2015

Member of the Editorial Board of the Bar Review (April 2023 to date)
Member of the Mental Health Tribunal (October 2019 to March 2024)
Member of the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (December 2017 to July 2021)