Brian Cregan

Last updated

The Hon. Mr. Justice
Brian Cregan
Judge of the High Court
Assumed office
3 April 2014

Brian Cregan (born 1961) [1] is an Irish judge who has served as a Judge of the High Court since April 2014 and is the current Chairperson of the IBRC commission of investigation.

Contents

Early career

Cregan attended Gonzaga College. [2] He attended St John's College, Oxford and the King's Inns. He became a barrister in 1990 and a senior counsel in 2004. [1] His practice focused on competition law and commercial law. [3] He has represented Seán Quinn in the High Court in disputes against Anglo Irish Bank. [4]

Judicial career

High Court

He was appointed to the High Court in April 2014. [5] Cregan presided over cases in the Commercial Court. [6] He has heard cases involving intellectual property law, [7] procurement law, [8] defamation, [9] insolvency law, [10] and consumer law. [11]

He adjudicated a dispute between Rory McIlroy and his management company Horizon Sports Management in 2015. [12] He was responsible for introducing a three strikes policy for Irish internet service provider UPC Ireland for piracy of copyrighted works by its customers. [13]

IBRC Commission

Cregan was appointed as chairperson of the IBRC commission of investigation in July 2015, replacing Daniel O'Keeffe. [14] The commission's purpose is to investigate the sale of the company Siteserv by the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation to Denis O'Brien. [15] He delivered the sixth interim report of the Commission in June 2019. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar announced that Cregan's reporting timeframe would continue to 31 March 2020. [16] As of December 2018, the commission had considered 102 statements and dealt with over 500,000 pages of documents. [17]

The final extension for the commission to complete its investigation was for June 2020. [18]

His role on the commission is full time, meaning that he has not been available to hear cases in the High Court. [19]

Other work

In 2013, Cregan published, Parnell: A Novel, a novelised account of the life of Charles Stewart Parnell, which took ten years to research. [20]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Denis O'Brien</span> Irish billionaire businessman

Denis O'Brien is an Irish billionaire businessman, and the founder and owner of Digicel. He was listed among the World's Top 200 Billionaires in 2015 and was Ireland's richest native-born citizen for several years. His business interests have also extended to aircraft leasing, utilities support (Actavo), petroleum, football, and healthcare. As former chairman of the Esat Digifone consortium, O'Brien was questioned by the Moriarty Tribunal, which investigated the awarding of a mobile phone licence to Esat, among other things.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Susan Denham</span> Irish judge

Susan Jane Denham, SC is a retired Irish judge who served as Chief Justice of Ireland from 2011 to 2017, she was the first woman to hold the position. She served as a Judge of the Supreme Court from 1992 to 2017, and was the third longest-serving member of the court on her retirement. She also served as a Judge of the High Court from 1991 to 1992.

George Bernard Francis Clarke is an Irish barrister who was Chief Justice of Ireland from July 2017 to October 2021.

John Eoin MacMenamin is an Irish judge who was a judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland between 2012 and 2022. He was previously a judge of the High Court from 2004 to 2012 and a barrister.

The IBRC commission of investigation is an Irish government commission of investigation to look into the transactions of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC) that led to its failure.

Peter Thomas Kelly is an Irish lawyer who held various judicial roles between 1996 and 2020. He began his career working in the civil service, before becoming a successful barrister. He was first appointed a Judge of the High Court in 1996, having an instrumental role in the establishment of the Commercial Court division of the court in 2004. He was one of the first judges appointed to a new Court of Appeal when it was established in 2014. He returned to the High Court in 2015 on becoming the President of the High Court, a role which he held until retiring in 2020. He was an ex officio member of the Supreme Court of Ireland while President of the High Court.

Mary Finlay Geoghegan is a retired Irish judge and lawyer. She was appointed to the High Court in 2002 and promoted to a newly established Court of Appeal from 2014. She became a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland from 2017, before retiring in 2019.

Actavo, formerly Siteserv, is an industrial and engineering services company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. It has several divisions which provide events management services, modular buildings, scaffolding, fencing, safety equipment and telecommunications networks.

Bernard Joseph Barton is an Irish barrister who was a judge of the High Court between April 2014 and March 2021.

Deirdre Murphy is an Irish lawyer who was a judge of the High Court between April 2014 and March 2023.

Úna Ní Raifeartaigh is an Irish judge and lawyer who has served as a Judge of the Court of Appeal since November 2019. She previously served as a Judge of the High Court from 2016 to 2019, having also previously been a senior counsel and legal academic. Her academic and legal expertise is in criminal law and the law of evidence.

Brian R. Murray is an Irish judge and lawyer who has served as a Judge of the Supreme Court since February 2022. He previously served as a Judge of the Court of Appeal from 2019 to 2022.

Maurice Gerard Collins is an Irish judge and lawyer who has served as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland since November 2022. He previously served as a Judge of the Court of Appeal from 2019 to 2022.

David Barniville is an Irish judge who has served as President of the High Court since July 2022 and a Judge of the High Court since July 2022, and previously from 2017 to 2021. He previously served as a Judge of the Court of Appeal from 2021 to 2022. He is also a former Chair of the Bar Council of Ireland. He is an ex officio member of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal.

Michael Twomey is an Irish judge and lawyer who has served as a Judge of the High Court since January 2016. He was previously a solicitor with an expertise in partnership law.

Paul Coffey is an Irish judge and lawyer who has served as a Judge of the High Court since September 2016. He has been predominantly involved in criminal trials as a judge and formerly as a barrister. He was the chair of an examination into the Stardust fire between 2008 and 2009.

Michael MacGrath is an Irish judge and lawyer who has served as a Judge of the High Court since January 2018.

Denis McDonald is an Irish judge and lawyer who has served as a Judge of the High Court since April 2018. He was previously practiced as a barrister with a speciality in commercial law. He was the chair of the Irish Takeover Panel between 2010 and 2018.

Teresa Pilkington is an Irish judge and lawyer who has served as a Judge of the Court of Appeal since September 2020. She previously served as a Judge of the High Court from 2018 to 2020.

Nuala Butler is an Irish judge who has served as a Judge of the Court of Appeal since October 2022. She previously served as a Judge of the High Court from 2020 to 2022.

References

  1. 1 2 "Appointments to the High Court". merrionstreet.ie. Archived from the original on 30 June 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  2. ↑ "Judge Brian Cregan (Class of 1979)". Gonzaga College. 29 January 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  3. ↑ "President meets new judges for High Court". Independent.ie. 4 April 2004. Archived from the original on 1 July 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  4. ↑ Carolan, Mary. "Judgment reserved on Quinn application to defend €2.3bn action". The Irish Times. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  5. ↑ "President appoints Mr. Bernard Joseph Barton S.C." president.ie. Archived from the original on 30 June 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  6. ↑ "McIlroy case deferred until today as legal teams strive to narrow issues". www.irishexaminer.com. 4 February 2015. Archived from the original on 1 July 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  7. ↑ "Court Finds Dunnes Stores Infringed Aldi's Trademark". Checkout. 6 April 2017. Archived from the original on 1 July 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  8. ↑ O'Faolain, Aodhan. "Losing bidder for M50 toll challenges award of contract". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  9. ↑ PM (16 September 2014). "Director defamed on Facebook, court rules". Herald.ie. Archived from the original on 1 July 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  10. ↑ Carolan, Mary. "Receivers dispute claim investor firm owed €9 million". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 13 August 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  11. ↑ "Dunnes' Aldi ads 'likely to deceive customers'". RTÉ News. 9 June 2015. Archived from the original on 1 July 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  12. ↑ "Rory McIlroy settles agent fees case". BBC News. 4 February 2015. Archived from the original on 2 July 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  13. ↑ "UPC ordered to install 'three strikes' anti-piracy system". Independent.ie. 27 March 2015. Archived from the original on 1 July 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  14. ↑ "Government Appoints High Court Judge Brian Cregan to replace Judge Daniel O'Keeffe as Chair of the Commission of Investigation into certain transactions conducted by IBRC". merrionstreet.ie. Archived from the original on 1 July 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  15. ↑ Horgan-Jones, Jack. "Siteserv inquiry 'may be delayed' by legal challenge from firm linked to Denis O'Brien". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 11 June 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  16. ↑ "Commissions of Investigation: 26 Jun 2019: Dáil debates". www.kildarestreet.com.
  17. ↑ McGee, Harry. "TD who raised issue of Siteserv sale to Dáil criticises inquiry's progress". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 17 December 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  18. ↑ Horgan-Jones, Jack. "Siteserv case: Request for extension to end of year denied". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 15 May 2020. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  19. ↑ Horgan-Jones, Jack (7 October 2020). "Date of new rules to set out personal injuries awards brought forward". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 28 November 2020. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
  20. ↑ "New book on Parnell charts incredible life". Independent.ie. Archived from the original on 1 July 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.