Joanelle O’Cleirigh
Joanelle works for a broad range of clients, particularly those in the healthcare, life sciences and regulated sectors. Joanelle also advises clients in relation to inquiries and investigations.
Joanelle’s Corporate Crime experience includes advising in relation to: the conduct of investigations and inquiries; some of Ireland’s most significant Tribunals of Inquiry, Commissions of Investigation; and on some of the most complex and sensitive statutory and corporate investigations.
Her healthcare/life sciences expertise includes advising on:
- contractual issues;
- disputes/closure of services;
- HIQA regulations;
- HPRA and Compliance;
- investigations/reviews/look-backs and product recalls;
- medical negligence
- cross border healthcare;
- constitutional law;
- privacy and data issues;
- capacity and consent;
- wardship;
- maternity services
- child protection.
Relevant Experience
- Acting for clients in relation to many significant high profile investigations and inquiries to include more recently the Commission of Investigation in the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC)
- Acting for the Child and Family Agency (Tusla) in the Tribunal of Inquiry into Protected Disclosures made under the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 (Disclosures Tribunal)
- Advising clients in relation to the Commission of Investigation in Mother and Baby Homes
- Acting for the Blackrock Clinic, the leading private Healthcare provider in Ireland, in relation to significant ongoing shareholder dispute
- Advising Chanelle Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing Limited in relation to High Court Judicial Review proceedings taken by Arthropharm (Europe) Limited, against the regulator, HPRA
- Acting for the Religious Sisters of Charity in relation to St. Vincent’s Centre Cork and successfully defeating the HSE’s (Irish Health Service) Court application concerning the closure of the Centre; currently advising in relation to High Court proceedings concerning the status of the Centre
- Advising regulated clients in relation to IAASA and HIQA investigations
- Advising the Orion Corporation in relation to a multi jurisidiction legislation
- Advising a number of pharma and medical device companies on product liability cases
Contact
+353 1 920 1650
joanelle.ocleirigh@arthurcox.com
Ten Earlsfort Terrace
Dublin 2
D02 T380
Ireland
- Post Graduate Diploma in Law, 1995, Dublin Institute of Technology
- BA, 1994, Trinity College, Dublin
- Admitted as a solicitor, 2000
- Admitted as a solicitor in Northern Ireland, 2015
- Founding member and Chapter Leader of the Irish Chapter of the Women White Collar Defense Association
- Appointed to the Government’s Expert Group to advise on legal implications of the European Court of Human Rights ruling on abortion
Joanelle O’Cleirigh is “a very experienced and trusted adviser and litigator who can be relied on to deliver excellent service and advice. She is very well informed and decisive in her approach, and takes on board our particular concerns and wishes.”
Chambers Europe: Europe’s Leading Lawyers for Business, 2019
Joanelle O’Cleirigh is a “very professional litigator.”
The Legal 500: Europe, Middle East & Africa, 2018
Joanelle O’Cleirigh is “easy to work with, available and precise; she gives very good legal advice.”
Chambers Europe: Europe’s Leading Lawyers for Business, 2017
“Joanelle O’Cleirigh [is recommended] for healthcare litigation”
The Legal 500: Europe, Middle East & Africa, 2016
