Rossa Fanning SC

Member of the Inner Bar

  • Junior Counsel: 1999
  • Senior Counsel: 2016
Qualifications:

BCL, LL.M.(NUI), LL.M.(Michigan), CEDR Accredited Mediator, BCL

Areas of Practice:
  • Administrative Law
  • Commercial/Chancery
  • Dispute Resolution
  • General Common Law
  • General Practice
  • Judicial Review
Specialisation:
  • Arbitration
  • Banking, Finance & Securities
  • Bankruptcy/Insolvency/Reorganisations
  • Company Law
  • Computer & E-Commerce Law
  • Constitutional Law
  • Construction Law
  • Data Protection Law
  • Defamation
  • European Law
  • Immigration & Asylum Law
  • Insurance Law
  • Intellectual Property & Franchise Law
  • Labour & Employment Law
  • Landlord & Tenant & Equity Law
  • Mediation
  • Planning & Local Government Law
  • Professional Negligence
  • Technology Media & Internet Law
Rossa Fanning SC
Mediator
Accrediting Body: CEDR
Circuits:

Dublin
Memberships:
Bar of Northern Ireland
Other Languages:
French (Working)
Direct Professional Access:
Provided

I have served as Attorney General of Ireland since December 2022.

In this constitutional role, I attend Cabinet as the adviser to the Government in matters of law and legal opinion and I oversee the work of the Office of the Attorney General, comprising Advisory Counsel, the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel to the Government and the Office of the Chief State Solicitor.

I lead significant litigation on behalf of the State before the Irish Courts and I represent the State before the International Court of Justice, the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights.

I am a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, a Member of the Council of State, a Member of the Judicial Appointments Commission, a Member of the General Council of the Bar of Ireland, a Council Member of King’s Inns and a Member of the Advisory Committee on the grant of Patents of Precedence.

I am a Bencher of King’s Inns, a Vice-President of the Irish Centre for European Law and an Adjunct Full Professor at the Sutherland School of Law at UCD.

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Contact

Phone
01-817 5425
Address
Suite 3.47.2 Distillery Building 145/151 Church St Dublin 7
DX
816506
Fax
01-817 2878
LinkedIn
@Rossa Fanning

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