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The Bloomsbury Professional Company Law Seminar 2025

Emerging and Overlooked Liabilities of Company Directors

Thursday 10th April 2025

In-person event

Bloomsbury Professional Ireland are delighted to be hosting a new company law seminar: Emerging and Overlooked Liabilities of Company Directors. This half-day event features the leading names in company and tort law in Ireland. With Dr Thomas B. Courtney acting as Chair, the seminar will focus on new developments in the area, in particular on potential liabilities for company directors if they are in breach of the law.

Speakers for this seminar include Prof William Binchy, Senator Michael McDowell SC, Shelley Horan BL, and Kelley Smith SC. The sessions for this event cover topics such as directors’ liability in tort, attachment of directors for civil contempt under s 53 of the Companies Act 2014, criminal liability of directors, and personal liability of directors.

Delegates to the seminar will earn 4 CPD points

Date: Thursday, 10th April, 2025

Time: 8:30 am—12:30 pm

Venue: Chartered Accountants Ireland, Pearse St, Dublin 2

Full Price: €450 

Price includes comprehensive information pack.

How to book:

Please email [email protected] to book your place.

Seminar Topics include:

  1. Company Directors’ Liability in Tort – William Binchy and Thomas B. Courtney
  2. Civil Liability of Directors for Company Breach of Court Orders – Michael McDowell
  3. Imposing Personal Liability on Company Directors by Lifting the Veil for Fraud – Kelley Smith
  4. The Criminal Liability of Directors – Shelley Horan

 

Full programme available here.

Speakers:

Chair

Dr Thomas B. Courtney

Dr Thomas B Courtney, solicitor (non-practising) and author of The Law of Companies (4th ed, Bloomsbury Professional, 2016), is the Managing Director and Founder of Courtney Governance. He is a writer, speaker and thought leader in Irish company law and corporate governance. Having acted as Chairperson of the Company Law Review Group from its establishment in 2000 to 2018, Tom is recognised as being the architect of the pioneering Companies Act 2014 which made the private LTD front and centre of Irish company law.

Speaker

Prof William Binchy

William Binchy is a practising barrister. He was Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College, Dublin from 1992 to 2012 and continues to lecture on its Master of Laws Degree programme. He was formerly a special legal adviser on family law reform to the Irish Department of Justice and Research Counsellor to the Law Reform Commission. He was a Commissioner with the Irish Human Rights Commission for two terms, from 2000 to 2011. William has authored, co-authored and co-edited books on private international law, torts and family law, and acts as expert witness in private international law in litigation throughout Europe.

Speaker

Shelley Horan BL

Shelley Horan has been a practicing barrister for 19 years. She specialises in the fields of regulatory and commercial law and is the author of the leading textbook Corporate Crime (2011, Bloomsbury Professional).

Speaker

Senator Michael McDowell SC

Michael McDowell practises as a Senior Counsel in the Law Library, Dublin. In July 1999 he was appointed Attorney General of Ireland until June 2002, when he was appointed Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. He served in that post until June 2007, and as Tánaiste from September 2006 to June 2007. He was elected as an independent member to Seanad Éireann in 2016 and re-elected in 2020 and 2025, where he is a member of the Committee on Procedural Privileges and is chair of the Members’ Interests Committee.

Speaker

Kelley Smith SC

Kelley Smith is a Senior Counsel practising in Dublin. Kelley specialises in commercial litigation. Kelley has also been called to the Bar of England and Wales and is the chairperson of the Corporate and Insolvency Bar Association.

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