Ms Olive Doyle > ByrneWallace LLP > Dublin, Ireland > Lawyer Profile
ByrneWallace LLP Offices
88 Harcourt Street
Saint Kevin's
DO2 DK18
Ireland
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Ms Olive Doyle
Work Department
Health and Social Care
Position
Partner, Health and Social Care
Career
Partner Olive Doyle is a specialist in Healthcare Law advising on diverse range of matters to public and private sector clients. Olive has 26 years’ experience as a solicitor including over 20 years’ experience working in the healthcare sector. This extensive experience across a wide range of areas has led her to specialise in Mental Health Law. Recognised as a leading practitioner in Mental Health Law in Ireland and has been at the forefront of all major developments in this niche area.
Olive has managed litigation on substantial constitutional and public law matters and provided specialist advice on legal issues and statutory developments, and has been legal advisor in many landmark cases for over the years.
Memberships
- Law Society Working Group to draft Code of Practice under the Assisted Decision -Making (Capacity) Act, 2015.
- Law Society’s Mental Health & Capacity Task Force Committee
- The Medico Legal Society
- Dublin Solicitors Bar Association Mental Health and Capacity Committee
Education
- Diploma and a Certificate in Legal Studies
- Admitted as a Solicitor (Law Society of Ireland, 1994)
Lawyer Rankings
Ireland > Healthcare and life sciences
(Leading individuals)ByrneWallace LLP has a prestigious history in public sector health and social care. It has a large team that is highly rated for healthcare litigation. It has acted for clients in numerous landmark child protection and healthcare law cases over the years. It routinely handles a high volume of child protection cases on behalf of the state and represents clients in wide-ranging areas from data breaches to judicial review and investigations. In life sciences, the firm fields another sizeable team with senior and highly-specialised practitioners, covering M&A, financings, license agreements and joint-venture agreements, among other areas. Colin Sainsbury is hugely experienced and a leading figure in the life sciences area. Also immensely experienced, Sinéad Kearney SC leads the health and social care team and is an authority on child protection and childcare law. Olive Doyle is rated for mental health law and Eoghan Wallace is another prominent name in child protection and childcare law. Catherine Dowling is noted for life sciences transactions.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Construction
- Data privacy and data protection
- Dispute resolution
- Information technology
- Insolvency and corporate restructuring
- Projects and PPP
- Real estate
- White-collar crime
- Energy and natural resources
- Insurance
- Media and entertainment
- Tax
- Intellectual property