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Sarah Conroy

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Sarah has extensive experience of insurance litigation and commercial litigation, acting for clients before the Commercial Court, the High Court and Tribunals of Inquiry.

She has acted for insurers and self-insured clients in relation to all types of professional indemnity claims, including claims made against financial services providers, accountants, insurance brokers and other professionals, including architects and engineers.

She has experience in the areas of maritime litigation, financial services litigation, general commercial litigation, aviation litigation, product liability litigation, construction and judicial review.

As well as insurers, she acts for financial institutions, multinationals, ship owners, semi-state bodies and various self-insured clients. She acts for financial institutions in relation to negligence claims mounted by customers and investors in the High Court and in relation to complaints made to the Financial Services Ombudsman.

Sarah also has extensive experience of contentious and non-contentious employment matters. She has appeared for clients before the Rights Commissioner Service, the Employment Appeals Tribunal, the Labour Court, the Equality Tribunal and the High Court. She has acted for insurers and self-insured clients in relation to employer liability claims over the years.

Sarah has contributed articles to the Law Society Gazette and to international publications on the topic of e-discovery. She also co-authored the Irish chapter of “Professional Secrecy of Lawyers in Europe” published in 2013. She has lectured on the Law Society of Ireland’s professional diploma courses.

Before joining Beale & Co in 2012, Sarah was a senior associate in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department of a large Dublin law firm for eight years.

Sarah is a member of the Irish Maritime Law Association, the Dublin Solicitors’ Bar Association, the Law Society of Ireland and the Law Society of England and Wales.

Sarah is recommended in the Legal 500 EMEA 2017 for Insurance.

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Education:

Bachelor of Civil Law, University College Dublin LLM (Commercial Law), University College Dublin Diploma in Employment Law, University College Dublin Diploma in Legal French, Law Society of Ireland

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Ireland 2001 England and Wales 2010 (non-practising)

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  • Professional indemnity
  • Disputes
  • Health and safety

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Testimonials

‘Tara Cosgrove and Sarah Conroy were particularly good. They both displayed a detailed understanding of the construction industry, and were excellent at communicating the legal implications to construction professionals who did not have a legal background and always available when issues arose at short notice.’Legal 500 EMEA 2022 - Construction

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  • HEALTH AND SAFETY AUTHORITY PUBLISHES ITS ANNUAL REVIEW OF WORKPLACE INJURIES, ILLNESSES AND FATALITIES FOR 2020-2021

    November 2022
    Sarah Conroy and Jackie Cunningham
  • The Health & Safety Authority Annual Report 2021 – a summary for the construction sector

    September 2022
    Sarah Conroy and Conor Williams
  • WORKPLACE RELATIONS COMMISSION ANNUAL REPORT 2021

    July 2022
    Niamh Loughran, Sarah Conroy and Jessica Heary
  • The Health & Safety Authority Annual Report 2020 – a summary for the construction sector

    January 2022
    Sarah Conroy and Jack Swayne

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