Catherine Donnelly SC

Member of the Inner Bar

  • Junior Counsel: 2007
  • Senior Counsel: 2020
Qualifications:

LL.B. (Dubl), LL.M. (Harv), BCL., D.Phil (Oxon)

Areas of Practice:
  • Administrative Law
  • Commercial/Chancery
  • General Common Law
  • Judicial Review
Specialisation:
  • Company Law
  • Competition Law
  • Constitutional Law
  • Data Protection Law
  • European Law
  • Human Rights
  • Public Procurement
  • Regulatory Law
Catherine Donnelly SC
Memberships:
Bar of England & Wales
Bar of Northern Ireland
Bar of the State of New York
Direct Professional Access:
Not provided

Catherine Donnelly was called to the Bar of Ireland in 2007 and was called to the Inner Bar in 2020.

She undertook her LL.B. in Trinity College Dublin and is a former scholar of the College. She completed a B.C.L. in Oxford, at Magdalen College, followed by an LL.M. and Fellowship in Harvard. She practised as a litigation attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York from 1999-2001 and was admitted to both the New York State and Federal Bars (Eastern and Southern Districts). During this time, she also taught an asylum law workshop at Columbia Law School and worked on pro bono projects for the Yale Law Clinic and Human Rights Watch. From 2001-2004, she completed a D.Phil. in Oxford, again at Magdalen College, during part of which time she held a college lectureship shared between Corpus Christi College and St John’s College, Oxford.

She was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2003 (Gray’s Inn) and from 2004-2005, she undertook pupillage at Blackstone Chambers, where she is currently a member.

She joined the Law Faculty of the University of Oxford in 2005 as a University Lecturer and Fellow in Law at Wadham College, teaching Administrative, Constitutional and European Union Law.  She joined the Law School of Trinity College Dublin in January 2007 and is a Fellow and Associate Professor there.

She was a legal advisor to the Bill of Rights Forum Northern Ireland (2007) and to the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission on its proposals for a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland (2008-2010).

She was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 2012.

Selected cases listed below.  Advises extensively on constitutional law, EU law, commercial law, public law and the European Convention on Human Rights.

Constitutional

  • Delaney v PIAB, Judicial Council, Ireland and Attorney General [2022] IEHC 85 (challenge to the Judicial Council Act and the Personal Injuries Guidelines)
  • Costello v Government of Ireland [2021] IEHC 675 (constitutional challenge to the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement)
  • Fox v Minister for Justice and Equality, Ireland and the Attorney General [2021] IESC 61 and [2021] IESC 67 (on whether there is, under Article 40, a positive obligation on the State to investigate a death and the scope of any such obligation, and whether any such obligation is equivalent to that imposed by Article 2 ECHR)
  • Heyns v Tifco [2021] IEHC 329 (challenge to mandatory hotel quarantine)
  • Zalewski v Adjudication Officer [2021] IESC 24 and [2021] IESC 29 (on the concepts of the “administration of justice” in Article 34 of the Constitution and “limited” judicial power in Article 37 and on the procedures required to be followed by Adjudication Officers in the Workplace Relations Committee)
  • Student Transport Scheme v Minister for Education and Skills [2021] IESC 22 and [2021] IESC 35 (issue on the role of discovery in a Greendale application and the substantive merits of the Greendale application)
  • Ganley v Minister for Health [2021] IEHC 822 (on whether a challenge to Covid-19 restrictions on the practice of religion was moot)
  • Murphy v An Taoiseach (ongoing challenge to State’s handling of Covid-19 crisis)
  • Friends of the Irish Environment v Government of Ireland [2018] IEHC 740; [2020] 2 ILRM 233 (climate change challenge to the National Mitigation Plan)
  • Shatter v Guerin [2019] IESC 9 (constitutional fair procedures)
  • Kerins v McGuinness [2019] IESC 11, [2019] IESC 42 (for Dáil Éireann on parliamentary immunity) (ongoing damages claim)
  • Jordan v Minister for Children and Youth Affairs [2015] 4 IR 232 (for the Petitioner challenging the Referendum Relating to Children)
  • Barlow v Minister for Agriculture, Food and Marine [2017] 2 IR 440 (for the Plaintiffs in a challenge under Article 10 of the Constitution)
  • The Attorney General, The Referendum Returning Officer and The Referendum Commission [2015] IESCDET 37 and Tracey v Ireland [2018] IECA 266 (acting for the Referendum Commission in challenges to referenda)
  • Smith v An Ceann Comhairle [2019] IEHC 746 (for An Ceann Comhairle in an ongoing challenge to the money message system)
  • Dempsey v An Bord Pleanála [2020] IEHC 462 (for the Attorney General intervening on the constitutionality of a national court making a reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union in compromised proceedings).
  • McCord v An Taoiseach (for An Taoiseach in an ongoing challenge regarding a border poll).
  • The Attorney General, The Referendum Returning Officer and The Referendum Commission [2015] IESCDET 37 (acted for Referendum Commission)

EU Law (General)

  • Cases T-778/16, T-892/16 Ireland v Commission EU:T:2020:338 (Apple State aid case) (on appeal to CJEU)
  • Ballyboden Tidy Towns Group v An Bord Pleanála ([2021] IEHC 648) (challenge to various provisions of the Planning Acts regarding their compatibility with the Habitats Directive and the EIA Directive) (on appeal)
  • Case C-479/21 EU:C:2021:929 Saqlain v Governor of Cloverhill Prison and Shahzad v Government of Mountjoy Prison (also Saqlain v Governor of Cloverhill Prison and Shahzad v Government of Mountjoy Prison [2021] IESC 45 (legal basis for Withdrawal Agreement and Trade and Cooperation Agreement)
  • Cases C-334/20 PPU L and C-412/20 PPU P (Court of Justice of the European Union) (Grand Chamber) (reference on the deteriorating situation in respect of the judiciary in Poland)
  • Abbvie v Revenue (High Court) (Case Stated against determination of the Tax Appeals Commission on the constitutionality and compatibility with EU law of a stamp duty charge in the order of almost €587 million)
  • Case C-3/21 FS (Court of Justice of the European Union) (a preliminary reference in respect of various questions arising under Regulation 883/2004)
  • Case C-398/11 Hogan v Minister for Social and Family Affairs EU:C:2013:272 (for Waterford Crystal workers seeking pension protections)
  • Case C-370/12 Pringle v Ireland EU:C:2012:756 (Grand Chamber) and [2013] 3 IR 1 (for Ireland resisting a challenge to the European Stability Mechanism and dealing with the circumstances in which referenda are required for ratifying an international treaty)

Data Protection

  • DPC v Facebook and Schrems ([2016] IEHC 414, [2017] IEHC 545, [2018] IESC 38, [2019] IESC 46 and Case C-311/18 EU:C:2020:559) (Supreme Court ruling on the availability of appeals from lower court references to the Court of Justice of the European Union/declaration by the Court of Justice of the European Union of the invalidity of the Privacy Shield Decision)
  • Minister for Social Protection v Data Protection Commission (Circuit Court) (appeal against an enforcement notice of the Data Protection Commission in relation to the Public Services Card) (compromised)
  • Shatter v Data Protection Commissioner [2017] IEHC 670 (acted for DPC)
  • Nowak v Data Protection Commissioner [2020] IECA 174
  • Nowak v Data Protection Commissioner [2020] IECA 175

Procurement

  • Energoinvest v ESB [2022] IEHC 221 (amendment application)
  • Word Perfect Translation Services v Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform [2022] IEHC 54 (preliminary issue on eligibility)
  • Word Perfect Translation Services v Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform [2022] IEHC 101 (division into lots)
  • Word Perfect Translation Services v Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform [2021] IESC 19 (consequences of an order for iterated discovery)
  • Word Perfect Translation Services v Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform [2021] IECA 305 (appeal against lifting of automatic suspension in procurement proceedings)
  • Payzone Ireland Ltd v National Transport Authority [2021] IEHC 212 (eligibility)
  • Word Perfect Translation Services Ltd v Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform [2019] IEHC 153, [2019] IECA 264, [2020] IESC 56 (discovery in procurement)
  • Transcore v National Roads Authority [2018] IEHC 569
  • Sanofi Aventis Ireland Ltd t/a Sanofi Pasteur v Health Service Executive [2018] IEHC 566
  • BAM v NRA [2017] IEHC 157
  • Student Transport Limited v Minister for Education and Skills [2016] IECA 152
  • RPS Consulting Engineers Limited v Kildare County Council [2016] IEHC 113, [2017] 3 IR 812
  • BAM PPP PGGM Infrastructure Cooperatie UA v National Treasury Management Agency & anor [2016] IEHC 546
  • BAM PPP PGGM Infrastructure Cooperatie UA v National Treasury Management Agency & anor [2015] IECA 246
  • BAM PPP PGGM Infrastructure Cooperatie UA v National Treasury Management Agency & anor [2015] IEHC 756
  • Word Perfect Translation Services Limited v Commissioner of An Garda Síochána [2015] IEHC 668
  • Student Transport Limited v Minister for Education and Skills [2015] IECA 303
  • Gaswise Limited v Dublin City Council [2014] 3 IR 1
  • Baxter Healthcare Limited v Health and Safety Executive [2013] IEHC 413
  • O’Kelly Brothers Civil Engineering Company Limited v Cork City Council [2013] IEHC 159
  • Student Transport Limited v Minister for Education and Skills [2012] IEHC 425

Competition  

  • Protégé International Group (Cyprus) Ltd v Irish Distillers Limited [2019] IEHC 322, [2020] IECA 80, [2021] IESC 16 (abuse of dominance)
  • Trucks Litigation (ongoing; acting for MAN Defendants)
  • Crayden v Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (State aid and Article 106 TFEU) (ongoing; acting for the applicant)
  • Millstreet Equestrian Services v Show Jumping Association of Ireland (Articles 101 and 102 TFEU)
  • Heatons v ASIC (acted for the plaintiff in refusal to supply case; ultimately compromised)
  • HCCI v Health Service Executive (complaints of interference with the market (Article 106 TFEU); ultimately compromised)

Commercial

  • Quinn Insurance Limited (Under Administration) v PricewaterhouseCoopers [2015] IEHC 303, [2018] IEHC 16, [2017] IECA 94, [2019] IESC 13, [2020] IECA 109 (for PwC in a €900 million claim for auditors’ negligence)
  • UCC v ESB ([2014] 2 IR 525; [2015] IEHC 598; [2017] IECA 248; [2020] IESC 38, [2021] IESC 21 (negligence in its operation of two dams upstream of Cork City during a flood in November 2009)

Company/Liquidation

  • Director of Corporate Enforcement v Independent News and Media plc [2018] IEHC 488 and [2018] IEHC 319 (for the Director in application for inspectors to be appointed to INM)
  • Re Custom House Capital (High Court) (acting for investors in application regarding the extent of the subrogation rights of the Investor Compensation Company Ltd over recovered monies following investment firm fraud)
  • Re Custom House Capital [2018] IEHC 652
  • Re Custom House Capital [2017] IEHC 484

Public

  • Agostinho v Portugal and Others (39371/20) (acting for Ireland in challenge against 33 States under the European Convention on Human Rights, in respect of an alleged failure to adequately address climate change)
  • Harney and Lee v Minister for Children (challenges to the Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes)
  • Talukder v Minister for Justice [2021] IEHC 835
  • Comcast International Holdings v Minister for Public Enterprise (Court of Appeal) (involved discovery appeal in proceedings related to the issues arising from the Moriarty Tribunal Report and including issues related to access to Moriarty Tribunal documents)
  • Comcast International Holdings Incorporated v Minister for Public Enterprise [2014] IEHC 18, [2019] IEHC 720 (for the Plaintiffs in an ongoing challenge to the award of the Second GSM Licence)
  • FP v Information Commissioner [2019] IECA 19 (acted for Information Commissioner)
  • Commission for Communications Regulation v Yourtel (acting for ComReg in enforcement action against Yourtel)
  • Burke v Adjudication Officer [2021] IEHC 667 (for the WRC) (judicial review regarding the implications of the Zalewski judgment for WRC procedures)
  • R (on the application of ICO Satellite Ltd) v Ofcom [2011] EWCA Civ 1121
  • McMahon v Irish Aviation Authority [2014] IEHC 431 (acted for the Irish Aviation Authority in challenge to its exercise of regulatory powers)
  • Westwood Club v Information Commissioner [2015] 1 IR 489 (acted for the Information Commissioner in a statutory appeal)
  • Commission for Communications Regulation v Yourtel (acted for ComReg in enforcement action against Yourtel) (contempt)
  • Cork Institute of Technology v Minister for Transport Tourism and Sport [2017] IEHC 762

Regulatory

  • Sheehan v Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal [2021] IESC 64 (on the scope of a statutory appeal under the Solicitors Act)
  • Sheehan v Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal [2020] IECA 77 (acting for the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal; leave to appeal to the Supreme Court allowed on a point of the scope of a statutory appeal)
  • Byrne v Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (acted for the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal in Court of Appeal (ex tempore judgment))
  • Lohan v Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (for Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
  • O’Callaghan v Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (for Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
  • L v Clinical Director of St Patrick’s Hospital [2019] 2 IR 266

Injunctions

  • Word Perfect Translation Services v Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform [2021] IECA 305
  • Homecare Medical Supplies Unlimited Company v Health Service Executive [2018] IEHC 55
  • Beckman Coulter Diagnostics Ltd v Beaumont Hospital [2017] IEHC 537
  • Powerteam Electrical Services Limited Trading as Omexom v Electricity Supply Board [2016] IEHC 87
  • OCS One Complete Solution Ltd v Dublin Airport Authority PLC [2014] IESC 51
  • OCS One Complete Solution Ltd v Dublin Airport Authority PLC [2014] IEHC 306
  • Passing off injunction: Dublin Bus v Citibus (compromised)
  • MGM Cafes Ltd v University College Dublin (compromised)

 

 

Books Date
1.      Lord Woolf, Jeffrey Jowell, Catherine Donnelly, Ivan Hare, De Smith’s Judicial Review (8th edn, Sweet & Maxwell 2018) (and supplements in 2019, 2020 and forthcoming 2021) 2018–2021
2.      Catherine Donnelly and Ivan Hare, De Smith’s Principles of Judicial Review (2nd edn, 2020) 2020
3.      Lord Woolf, Jeffrey Jowell, Andrew Le Sueur, Catherine Donnelly, Ivan Hare, De Smith’s Judicial Review (7th edn, Sweet & Maxwell 2013) (and supplements in 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017) 2013–2017
4.      Lord Woolf, Jeffrey Jowell, Andrew Le Sueur, Catherine Donnelly, De Smith’s Judicial Review (6th edn, Sweet & Maxwell 2007) (and supplement in 2009) 2007 and 2009
5.      Catherine Donnelly, Delegation of Governmental Power to Private Parties: A Comparative Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2007) 2007
Articles Date
1.      Catherine Donnelly and T de la Mare, ‘Preliminary References and EU Legal Integration: Evolution and Continuity’ in P Craig and G de Búrca (eds) Evolution of EU Law (3rd edn) In Press—2021
2.      Catherine Donnelly, ‘Public Procurement’ in C McCrudden (ed), The Law and Practice of the Ireland—Northern Ireland Protocol In Press—2021
3.      Catherine Donnelly, Ellen O’Callaghan, Ronan Dunne, Meghan Summers, ‘Litigation Funding and Class Actions’ (January 2020). 2020
4.      Catherine Donnelly and Ellen O’Callaghan, ‘The Case for Litigation Funding’ (2019) 24(4) Bar Review 107. 2019
5.      Catherine Donnelly, ‘SPV Osus and Persona: Reflecting on Relationships while Waiting for the Greek Kalends’ (2017–2018) 1 Irish Supreme Court Review 83. 2018
6.      Catherine Donnelly, ‘Participation and Expertise: Judicial Attitudes in Comparative Perspective’ in Susan Rose-Ackerman, Peter Lindseth, Blake Emerson (eds), Comparative Administrative Law (2nd edn, Edward Elgar Publishing 2017). 2016
7.      Hilary Biehler and Catherine Donnelly, ‘Proportionality in the Irish courts: the need for guidance’ (2014) 3 European Human Rights Law Review 272. 2014
8.      Catherine Donnelly, ‘Transparency, Reasons and the Europeanisation of Public Law’ in Kieran Bradley, Noel Travers, Anthony Whelan (eds), Of Courts and Constitutions (Hart Publishing 2014). 2014
9.      Catherine Donnelly, ‘The Convention in the Private Sphere: A Noteworthy Achievement’ in Suzanne Egan, Liam Thornton and Judy Walsh (eds), Ireland and the European Convention on Human Rights: 60 Years and Beyond (Bloomsbury, 2014). 2014
10.  John Biggins and Catherine Donnelly, ‘The Implementation of the Services Directive in Ireland’ in Michael Mirschberger (ed), The Implementation of the Services Directive in EU Member States (Speyer 2012). 2012
11.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Privatization and Welfare: A Comparative Perspective’ (2011) 5(2) Law and Ethics of Human Rights 337. 2011
12.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Preliminary Rulings and EU Legal Integration: Evolution and Stasis’ in Paul Craig and Gráinne de Búrca (eds), The Evolution of EU Law (Oxford University Press, 2nd edn, 2011). 2011
13.  Catherine Donnelly and Hilary Delany, ‘The Irish Supreme Court Inches Towards Proportionality Review’ (2011) Public Law 9. 2011
14.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘The New Remedial Landscape in Public Procurement in Ireland’ Duncan Fairgrieve and François Lichere (eds), Public Procurement Law: Damages as an Effective Remedy (Hart Publishing 2011). 2011
15.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Problems of Legitimacy in Contracting Out and Privatisation’ in Matthias Ruffert (ed), Legitimacy in Administrative Law: Reform and Reconstruction (Europa Law Publishing 2011). 2011
16.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Positive Obligations and Privatization’ (2010) 61(3) Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 209. 2010
17.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Public-Private Partnerships: Award, Performance and Remedies’ in Stefan Schill (ed), International Investment Law and Comparative Public Law (Oxford University Press 2010). 2010
18.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Participation and Expertise: Judicial Attitudes in Comparative Perspective’ in Susan Rose-Ackerman and Peter Lindseth (eds), Comparative Administrative Law (1st edn, Edward Elgar Publishing 2010). 2010
19.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Administrative Law and Multi-Level Administration: An EU and US Comparison’ (2009) 11 Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 211. 2009
20.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Remedies in Public Procurement Law in Ireland’ (2009) 1 Public Procurement Law Review 18. 2009
21.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘The Response of English Public Law to Private Actors in Public Governance’ in Matthias Ruffert (ed), The Public/Private Divide: Potential for Transformation (British Institute of International and Comparative Law 2009). 2009
22.  Catherine Donnelly, “Article 8” in Lord Lester of Herne Hill, Lord Pannick, Javan Herberg, Human Rights Law and Practice (3rd edn, Lexis Nexis 2009). 2009
23.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘The Privatisation of Governmental Functions’ in Oran Doyle and Eoin Carolan, The Irish Constitution: Governance and Values (Round Hall 2008). 2008
24.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Ireland and the European Union – 2008’ (2008) Irish Yearbook of International Law 117. 2008
25.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Foreword’ in Paul Downes, Anda Zule-Lapimaa, Liliya Ivanchenko, Sirle Blumberg (eds), Not One Victim More – Human Trafficking in the Baltic States (Living for Tomorrow 2008) (http://lastradainternational.org/lsidocs/2160-Not_One_Victim_More.pdf). 2008
26.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘A Simple Common Lawyer: Essays in Honour of Michael Taggart’ (2008) 43 Irish Jurist 151. 2008
27.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Les rapports entre droit administratif fédéral et droits administratifs des États aux États-Unis: comparaison avec l’Union Européenne’ in Jacqueline Dutheil de la Rochère and Jean-Bernard Auby (eds), Droit Administratif Européen (Bruylant 2007). 2007
28.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Ireland and the European Union – 2007’ (2007) Irish Yearbook of International Law 133. 2007
29.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Elections’ in Beverley Lang (ed), Administrative Court: Practice and Procedure (Sweet & Maxwell 2006). 2006
30.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Habeas Corpus’ in Beverley Lang (ed), Administrative Court: Practice and Procedure (Sweet & Maxwell 2006). 2006
31.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Europe’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, Review of Europe’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, by Neil Walker’ (2005) Public Law 889. 2005
32.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Leonard Cheshire Again and Beyond: Private Contractors, Contract and Section 6(3)(b) of the Human Rights Act’ (2005) Public Law 785. 2005

Event Date
1.      Catherine Donnelly, ‘Public Procurement Post-Brexit’ (Lecture to the Judicial Studies Board for Northern Ireland; training for Northern Ireland judges on legal changes after Brexit) 27 May 2021
2.      Catherine Donnelly, Chair and Interviewer, ‘The Winds of Change for the Rule of Law: A Discussion on Climate Impacts and the Role of Arbitration’ (Arbitration Ireland and Irish Rule of Law International joint seminar) 5 May 2021
3.      Catherine Donnelly, ‘Third Country Data Transfers’ (ICEL seminar on ‘Privacy in 2021—Are you ready?’ with Matheson) 29 April 2021
4.      Catherine Donnelly, ‘Procurement after Brexit’ (ICEL seminar series on the Ireland—Northern Ireland Protocol) 30 March 2021
5.      Catherine Donnelly, ‘Transparency in Procurement Litigation: Importance, Anomalies and Developments’ 8 October 2020
6.      Catherine Donnelly, ‘EU Charter in National Law: Notable Cases and Trends’ (ICEL OSJI Charter of Fundamental Rights–10th Anniversary Conference, ICEL). 7 December 2019
7.      Catherine Donnelly, ‘State Aid Update’ (ISEL Update on State Aid Law Developments, Dublin). 9 October 2019
8.      Catherine Donnelly, ‘Divergence and Convergence: Data Protection in EU and ECHR Law’ (ICEL Privacy and Data Protection Law Conference, Dublin). 23 May 2019
9.      Catherine Donnelly, ‘SPV Osus and Persona: Reflecting on Relationships while Waiting for the Greek Kalends?’ (Irish Supreme Court Review). 6 October 2018
10.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Show me the money (and other options)! – Final Remedies in Procurement Litigation’, (ICEL Procurement Conference 2018, Dublin). 28 June 2018
11.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Common Law and EU Law: A Transient Blip or Enduring Exchange’ (Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, Dublin). 7 September 2017
12.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Recent Developments in Construction Procurement’ (Construction Bar Association, Annual Conference, Dublin). 28 April 2017
13.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Environmental Rights: Convention and Charter’ (ICEL EPA Conference 2016, Dublin). 30 September 2016
14.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Transparency in Procurement: Where are the Limits?’ (ICEL Public Procurement Law Conference, Dublin). 3 June 2016
15.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Participation and Expertise: Judicial Attitudes in Comparative Perspective’ (Comparative Public Law Conference, Yale Law School). 29 April 2016
16.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘The Cross-Over between Procurement and Competition Law’, ICEL Public Procurement Law Conference, Dublin). 12 June 2015
17.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘The Reach of Public Procurement Law: Current Issues’ (ISEL, Dublin). 30 April 2015
18.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘The New Procurement Directives and Procurement Litigation’ (CMG Professional Training, Dublin). 14 May 2014
19.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘The Unfulfilled Promise of Zambrano’ (Understanding EU Citizens’ Rights, ISEL, Dublin). 24 October 2013
20.  Brian Kennelly and Catherine Donnelly, ‘Interim Relief, Damages and Expert Evidence in Public Procurement’ (Blackstone Chambers Procurement Law Seminar, London). 3 July 2013
21.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘The Convention in the Private Sphere’ (The European Convention on Human Rights, ICEL). 29 June 2013
22.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Public Procurement: Remedies’ (Current Issues in the EU, ISEL/UKAEL, London). 21 June 2013
23.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘The Impact of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union’ (Irish Criminal Bar Association). 5 June 2013
24.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Implementation of the ECHR in Ireland: Reviewing the 2003 Act’ (ICEL). 10 May 2013
25.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘EU Law in the National Courts: An Update’ (ICEL). 10 May 2012
26.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Are Preliminary Rulings Working?’ (Bar European Group, Lisbon). 6 May 2012
27.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Automatic Suspension and Interlocutory Relief’ (Public Procurement Litigation Conference, Trinity College, Dublin). 1 March 2012
28.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Judicial Review of the Year in Great Britain’ (NICEM Annual Human Rights and Equality Conference). 1 July 2011
29.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘The 2010 Remedies Regulations: Automatic Suspension, Time Limits and Standing’ (A Review of Public Procurement in Ireland, ISEL Procurement Law Forum). 12 April 2011
30.  Catherine Donnelly and Ivan Hare, ‘Judicial Review Remedies: Recent Developments and Some Predictions’ (Sweet and Maxwell Judicial Review Conference 2011, London). 25 November 2011
31.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Convergences and Divergences in Educating Transnational Lawyers?’ (ABA Section of International Law). 12 October 2011
32.  Catherine Donnelly ‘Reasons in Administrative Law’ (Social Entitlement Chamber Asylum Support Tribunal, Annual Training Conference). 6 November 2011
33.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Automatic Suspension, Time Limits and Standing’ (The New Public Procurement Remedies Regulations, ISEL Procurement Law Forum, Dublin). 29 June 2010
34.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Ineffectiveness, Relationships and Costs’ (ISEL Procurement Law Conference, Dublin). 24 June 2010
35.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Positive Obligations and Privatization’ (Queen’s University Law School Annual Workshop, Belfast). 24 March 2010
36.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Reasons in Administrative Law’ (Presentation to the Upper Tribunal of Administrative Judges, London). 3 March 2010
37.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘The NIO Bill of Rights Consultation Paper: A Public Law Analysis’ (NICEM Annual Conference, Belfast).  (No paper). 12 February 2010
38.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Problems of Legitimacy in Contracting Out and Privatization’ (Sorbonne, Dornberg Group, Conference, Paris). 24 October 2009
39.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘The OGC Consultation on the Remedies Directive’ (Arthur Cox Public Procurement Seminar, London). 24 September 2009
40.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Grounds for Judicial Review: New Developments’ (Judicial Review: Recent Developments, Dublin). 27 June 2009
41.  Catherine Donnelly and Tom de la Mare, ‘Preliminary Rulings in Social and Political Context’ (European University Institute Conference, Florence). 19 April 2009
42.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Damages Remedies in Public Procurement Law’ (British Institute of International and Comparative Law).  (No Paper) 13 March 2009
43.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Judicial Review of the Year in Great Britain’ (Northern Ireland Centre for Ethnic Minorities Annual Conference, Belfast). 27 February 2009
44.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Pursuing Secondary Policies in EC Public Procurement Law’ (ISEL, Dublin).  (No Paper). 16 February 2009
45.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘The Federalising Effect of Administrative Law in the EU and US’ (Centre for European Legal Studies, Cambridge). 21 January 2009
46.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Institutional Reform: With and Without Lisbon’ (ICEL, Dublin). 23 October 2008
47.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Enforcing a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland’ (Committee on the Administration of Justice Seminar, Belfast).  (No Paper). 30 September 2008
48.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘A British Bill of Rights and Devolution in Northern Ireland’ (British Bill of Rights and Devolution Conference, JUSTICE, Houses of Parliament, London). 11 July 2008
49.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Preamble, Enforcement and Implementation’ (Getting the Bill Right – An Update, Belfast).  (No Paper). 2-3 July 2008
50.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Remedies in Public Procurement’ (State Aid and Public Procurement Update, ICEL, Dublin). 29 May 2008
51.  Catherine Donnelly and Aideen Gilmore, ‘Final Report of the Preamble, Enforcement and Implementation Working Group’ (Northern Ireland Bill of Rights Forum, Belfast).  (No Paper). March 2008
52.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Chapters 3 and 6, and Appendix 2’ (Northern Ireland Bill of Rights Forum Report, Belfast).  (No Paper). March 2008
53.  Jeffrey Jowell and Catherine Donnelly, ‘A Year in the Life of Judicial Review: Key Cases of 2007’ (Judicial Review Update, London). 30 November 2007
54.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Secondary Policies and Public Procurement’ (ISEL Secondary Policies and Public Procurement Conference, Dublin). 24 October 2007
55.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘The Human Rights Council: Rapporteur’ (Annual Department of Foreign Affairs NGO Human Rights Forum, Dublin).  (No paper). 19 June 2007
56.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘The Constitution at 70 and Privatisation of Governmental Functions’ (The Constitution at 70 Conference, Dublin). 8-9 June 2007
57.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘The Response of English Public Law to Private Actors in Public Governance’ (Public/Private Divide: Potential for Transformation, London).  (No Paper). 4–5 May 2007
58.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Administrative Law and Multi-Level Governance: An EU-US Comparison’ (Oxford University Public Law Discussion Group, Oxford).  (No paper). 30 November 2006
59.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Governance in the Changing Ireland and the Law’s Response’ (Irish Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference, Cork). 8–9 April 2006
60.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Leonard Cheshire and Beyond: Is Contract Really a Substitute for the Human Rights Act? Does it Matter?’ Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, Sheffield). 14 September 2004
61.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘Human Rights Controls on Delegates of Governmental Power’ (Oxford University Public Law Discussion Group, Oxford).  (No paper). 10 June 2004
62.  Catherine Donnelly, ‘The Thirteenth Amendment of the US Constitution and Diplomatic Immunity’ (Recent Constitutional Law Cases, Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York).  (No paper). 12 June 2000

 

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