Isabel Foley - Partner

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Isabel is a partner in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group and also heads up the Product Liability & Product Safety Group.  Her principal areas of practice are commercial disputes and product liability.  On the commercial side, she advises companies and financial institutions across the commercial and financial sectors on general corporate disputes, regulatory compliance and investigations, disputes concerning financial products and services and competition disputes, resolving such disputes through mediation, Commercial Court proceedings and judicial review.  On the product side she advises clients in a wide range of sectors on product liability/safety issues, including risk management, product recall and crisis management.  She lectures on product liability at the Law Society of Ireland and has sat as nominee of the Law Society on various judicial committees charged with the reform of court procedures in Ireland.

Practice Areas

  • Acting on behalf of Greencore Group plc in its challenge to the decision of the Irish Government in July 2006 in relation to the allocation of €145m of restructuring aid on the restructuring of the sugar industry, culminating in a High Court judgment quashing that decision in June 2007
  • Representing a leading Korean bank in a dispute in the Commercial Court arising from a series of securitisation transactions involving claims of in excess of  €47m
  • Acting on behalf of Greencore Group plc in the defence in 2008 and 2009 of the first two “follow on” competition actions (consequent upon a decision of the European Commission) to have come before the Irish Courts
  • Acting on behalf of Gallaher (Dublin) Limited and Benson and Hedges Limited in the defence of multiparty litigation brought by smokers and former smokers seeking damages for injuries alleged to have arisen from the consumption of tobacco products
  • Acting on behalf of eircom plc in the defence of multiple claims initiated by employees/former employees allegedly suffering from noise induced hearing loss as a result of their work as telephonists/operators with eircom
  • Representing the State Claims Agency, in the defence of all claims against public hospitals which involve allegations regarding hospital acquired infections
  • Representing a number of food processors in relation to the Irish pork and bacon recall in December 2008, arising from the dioxin scare

Education

  • BCL, 1981, University College, Dublin

Professional

  • Admitted as a solicitor, 1985

Memberships

  • Isabel was for many years a member of the Litigation Committee of the Law Society of Ireland. She has also sat as nominee of the Law Society on a number of committees charged with reform of court procedures (including the drafting of the rules for the recently established Commercial Court)
  • Member of the Defence Research Institute
  • International Association of Defence Counsel
  • Chair of DRI Europe

Contact Me

Isabel Foley
Partner
Arthur Cox
Earlsfort Centre
Earlsfort Terrace
Dublin 2
Ireland
t: +353 (0)1 618 0450