Fionnuala Ní Dhúgáin BL

Fionnuala Ní Dhúgáin BL is a barrister and mediator with a civil practice focused on chancery and commercial law.

After graduating with a degree in law from Trinity College, Dublin (LLB(Hons)), Fionnuala studied at the King’s Inns, obtaining the Barrister-at-Law Degree before being called to the Bar of Ireland in 2005. She was later called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2013 where she is a member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, London. In May 2024, she joined Normanton Chambers in London to further develop her civil practice focused on chancery and commercial law in England & Wales while maintaining her Irish practice in the Law Library in Dublin.

Fionnuala specialises in all matters related to property, including landlord and tenant law, receiver injunctions, conveyancing, mortgages, trusts and probate. She regularly represents clients before the Irish Courts in litigation relating to commercial leases, claims to new tenancies under the 1980 Act, the enforcement of contracts for the sale of land and Ground Rent applications, in addition to providing specialised legal opinions.

She also has extensive experience in the areas of banking and insolvency, regularly appearing in the chancery list for financial institutions and receivers seeking to enforce mortgages or other securities, in addition to a more general civil practice involving a wide variety of areas from commercial disputes to intellectual property.

Fionnuala is an Accredited Civil and Commercial Mediator and Associate member of CIArb, having completed her training and assessment to international standards with the Society of Mediators, London in March 2024.

She is a member of the Probate Bar Association of Ireland and Cumann Barra na Gaeilge. Together with other colleagues in the Law Library, Fionnuala is currently working on establishing and promoting a new specialist bar association focused on property and land law.

“Easements by Prescription – a Jumble of Rules from Time Immemorial”

Bar of Ireland, 6 July 2023

“An Dlí i dTaobh na mBeach sa Mheánaois” (The Law of Bees in the Middle Ages)

Cumann Barra na Gaeilge, 11 March 2023

Chaired Law Library CPD event entitled “Property Law Update”

Gaffney Room, Distillery Building and Online, 18 Jan 2024

“The Right to a New Tenancy and the Prohibition on Upward Only Rent Reviews in Commercial Leases”

The Dublin Solicitors Bar Association, 3 April 2019