Byrne Wallace Shields LLP

Health and Social Care

Partner, Health and Social Care

Patrick is a Partner in the Health Services Team, with significant expertise in advocacy in contested in camera child care proceedings. He represents the HSE in preparing and running complex and contested applications under the Child Care Act in the District Court.

His specialist areas of advice and representation include immigration legislation and schemes, and judicial review proceedings on behalf of the State. Before joining Byrne Wallace Shields LLP, Patrick was a member of the judicial review section of the Chief State Solicitors Office dealing exclusively with High Court and Supreme Court litigation.

• The Law Society of Ireland
• Dublin Solicitors Bar Association

• Trained in Mediation Advocacy Skills, Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution, 2010
• Certificate in Judicial Review, Law Society of Ireland 2007
• Qualified as a Solicitor – January 2003
• Kings Inns Certificate in Legal Irish – 2002/2003
• Bachelor of Civil Law (International), University College Dublin, 1999