Biography
Lewis Mooney is a Barrister-at-Law, Law Library of Ireland and is also admitted as a Barrister-at-Law at the Bar of Northern Ireland. He practises in adoption law (appearing on behalf of, for example, the Adoption Authority of Ireland and respondent parents), child protection law (instructed by, for example, the Child and Family Agency, the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, guardians ad litem, respondent parents and children under s.25, Child Care Act 1991), education law (instructed by, for example, children, parents, and the Minister for Education), disability law (instructed by children and parents), and mental health law (instructed by guardians ad litem, parents and the General Solicitor for Minors and Wards of Court). § Other areas of practice include administrative and constitutional law, international human rights law, housing law, defamation/media law, data protection, insurance law, equality/discrimination law, and surrogacy law. Lewis has appeared in all of the Courts of Ireland as counsel – the Supreme Court (including on behalf of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (“IHREC”) as amicus curiae), the Court of Appeal, the High Court, the Circuit Court, and the District Court, as well as the European Court of Human Rights (including on behalf IHREC as a third party intervener), the Court of Justice of the European Union, inquiries pursuant to section 42 of the Garda Síochána Act 2005, and also the United Nations Committee Against Torture. He has lectured in family law and human rights law at the Law Society of Ireland and is the Lead Lecturer on the Advanced Diploma in Media and Social Media Law at the Law Library of Ireland. He was awarded the prestigious Catherine McGuinness Fellowship in 2018.
