Law Faculty News

In the four years since its inception students undertaking the FE1 course have achieved a total of 21 Law Society Entrance Examinations 1st placed prizes. This includes the Overend Prize for Best Overall Student Performance in three of the past four years.

The Law School would like to congratulate our students’ success in obtaining SEVEN 1st placed prizes in the FE1 Examinations for 2011.

Law Society Entrance Examination 1st Placed Prizewinners for 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Caroline Stone (1^st place for Law of Torts), James Quirke (1^st place for Criminal Law), Filip Kobylkiewicz (1^st place Equity of Law – Patrick O’Connor Memorial Prize), Brendan Curran (1^st place for Contract Law), Kim Bowen (1^st place Law of Property).In absentia, Sarah Jenkinson achieved 1^st place for Contract Law and Eavan Buckley achieved 1^st place for European Law.

LL.B (Hons) in Irish Law 2011 Graduates

1st Placed PRIZEWINNERS

Law Society Entrance Examination first-place prizewinners, including the Overend Prize for best overall student performance 2010.

Val Corbett, Head of Law School with Eibhlin Kerr, 1st place Overend Scholar for Best Overall Student Performance

The Law School celebrated the news that students of its FE1 Preparatory Course won a total of 4 1st Place Prizes in the Law Society of Ireland’s Final Entrance. Examinations (Part 1) in 2009.The winners included the Best Overall Student (The Overend Scholar) and follows the success of last year where students won a total of seven 1st placed prizes .

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Top of the Class! (pictured left to right): Ciara FitzGerald (1st in Ireland in Constitutional Law) Patrick Joseph Daly (Overend Scholar, 1st in Ireland overall) Rebecca McEvoy (1st in Ireland in the Law of Tort)

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Best Individual Subject Prizewinners:

*Shona Hughes, Criminal Law (1st place in Ireland, 2010)

*Cathal Hester, Constitutional Law (1st place in Ireland, 2010)

*James Quaine, Property Law (1st place in Ireland, 2010)

*Ciara Emily Fitzgerald, Constitutional Law (1st place in Ireland, 2009)

*Frances Mary Buckley, Property Law (1st place in Ireland, 2009)

*Rebecca McEvoy, Law of Torts (1st place in Ireland, 2009)

*Ciara McDermott, Law of Torts (1st place in Ireland, 2008)

*Isabel Hyde, Constitutional Law (1st place in Ireland, 2008)

*Sean O’Reilly, Criminal Law (1st place in Ireland, 2008)

*Donal King, European Union Law (1st place in Ireland, 2008)

*Rachel Kevans, Europan Union Law (1st place in Ireland, 2008)

Media Inquiries

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For additional assistance contact:

Val Corbett

Head of Law

val.corbett@independentcolleges.ie

01 6351192