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Dr. Eamonn Hall, Solicitor (Ireland, Northern Ireland, England and Wales) Notary Public and Commissioner for Oaths |contact|
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Graduate of University College Dublin with a B.A. degree; H.Dip.Ed. (NUI Maynooth); LL.B. (NUI Galway); Ph.D. (Trinity College Dublin); admitted as a solicitor, 1974; admitted as a solicitor of Northern Ireland, and England and Wales; principal of E G Hall & Co. Solicitors, Notaries Public and Commissioners for Oaths; chief solicitor with Telecom Éireann/Eircom Group, 1984-2007; chief examiner in constitutional law for Law School of Law Society of Ireland, 1981-2006; examiner in constitutional law for Law Society in Qualified Lawyers’ Transfer Examination from its inception to date; consultant on judicial review to the Law School and former consultant on Criminal Litigation and Advocacy on the professional course of the Law Society of Ireland.
Former Secretary and President of the Medico-legal Society of Ireland and current member of its council; former Chairman of the Irish Society for European Law and a current Vice President; elected member of the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for Ireland in 1986 and a current member of its Council; elected Vice Chairman of the Law Reporting Council in 1993 and Chairman in 1997; appointed by the Government to the first Information Society Commission, 1997-2000, and Chairman of the Legal and Government Affairs Committee of the Commission, 1997-2000; Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, University of London; former member of the Council of Convocation of the National University of Ireland.
Visiting Fellow and member of the Adjunct Faculty of Law, University College Dublin, 2000 to 2008; chairman of the Editorial Board of the Gazette of the Law Society of Ireland over a span of three decades; member of the Board of Directors of the Irish Centre for European Law, Trinity College Dublin; member of the Governing Council of the Faculty of Notaries Public in Ireland; Director of Education, Faculty of Notaries Public in Ireland, 2009 to date; Member of the International Union of Latin Notaries, 2009 to date; author of The Electronic Age: Telecommunication in Ireland (1993); consultant editor of The Irish Digest, 1994-99 published by the Law Reporting Council for Ireland; co-editor of, and contributor to, The Law Society of Ireland 1852-2002: Portrait of a Profession (2002); recipient of the National University of Ireland Galway award for Law, Public Service and Government, 2004; co-author of supplement to O’Connor’s The Irish Notary (2007); author of The Superior Courts of Law: ‘Official’ Law Reporting in Ireland 1866-2006 (2007) and author of numerous articles in various publications, nationally and internationally.