Nicholas McNicholas
Education
Trinity College, Dublin, LLB (Exhibitioner)
Université de Poitiers, France, Diplome des Etudes Juridiques Francaises
King's College, London, LLM
Called to the Bar of Ireland - 2005
Practice
Commercial: including contractual disputes and the sale and carriage of goods, aspects of IT law and competition law, certain aspects of intellectual property and tax law
Property: including landlord and tenant disputes, housing and mortgages and trespass to goods
Personal injury: including Health & Safety, employer's liability, trespass to the person, false imprisonment, misfeasance, all aspects of prison law, and Human Rights Act 1998 claims
Experience
Nicholas is dual-qualified and practises both in the courts of Ireland and England and Wales. He is more happy to accept instructions in either jurisdiction or to advise on appropriate cases with a cross-border dimension. He has extensive advocacy and advisory experience in a very wide range of areas with experience in all manner of tribunal. His experience ranges from extensive exposure at the outset of his practice in the criminal courts, through to personal injury and medical negligence actions in the County Courts to a focus now predominantly on commercial and property work in the County and High Courts. He also advises on certain areas of intellectual property law and tax.
Articles
"COMETS project, Cost Model for the Setting Up of a Certification Authority for Digital Signatures"
Contributed to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2790/1999 on the Application of Article 81(3) of the Treaty to categories of vertical agreements and concerted practices
Co-author of paper on "the effect of the European Directive on Money Laundering in the UK" by Nicholas Stewart QC, for the Conference of International Lawyers, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2000
"Having the Will to Succeed in Business": training session given to the Institute of Will Writers, November 2001
"A note on the Electronic Communications Act 2000", Huldeboek, KU Leuven
Series of talks given to Government and Private Commercial Solicitors on Data Protection Act 1998 and Freedom on Information Act 2000 - 2005/2006
Membership
Personal Injuries Bar Association
Professional Negligence Bar Association
European Bar Group
Interests
Music, scuba-diving, golf, travel
