Senan Allen

He was called to the Bar in 1983 and became a senior counsel in 2000. His practice was focused on chancery law and commercial litigation.^[1]

In 2015, Allen was appointed to undertake a review of allegations made by a whistleblower relating to the Oireachtas Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis.^[2] His report concluded that no misconduct took place at the inquiry.^[3]

Allen was nominated as a judge of the High Court in July 2018 and was appointed in October 2018.^[4][5]

He has heard cases involving property law, defamation, insolvency, European Arrest Warrants, contract law, election law, injunctions, judicial review, probate law, child law, and company law.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]} In proceedings related to Comcast Int. Holdings v Minister for Public Enterprise & ors and Persona Digital Telephony Ltd v Minister for Public Enterprise & ors he permitted discovery of documents related to the Esat Digifone licence controversy.^[17]

Since 2019 he is a member of a committee of the Judicial Council relating to personal injuries guidelines.^[18][19] He was the judge in charge of the Chancery list of the High Court as of 2021.^[20]

He was nominated to the Court of Appeal in April 2022 and was appointed in June 2022.^[21][22][23]