Avril is instructed by local authorities and parents in appeals concerning all aspects of Education and Health Care Plans (including pre-issuing and cases involving health and social care recommendations) and discrimination claims under the Equality Act 2010.
Avril has a growing advisory practice in cases which straddle SEN law and mental capacity law.
Previous experience
Avril has gained extensive experience in the field of public law and human rights. Avril has worked in human rights NGOs and legal advice centres in Germany, Bolivia, the UK, and the Netherlands, including the AIRE Centre where she advised on family reunification and the Citizenship Directive. Through this work, Avril has developed skills for dealing with vulnerable clients, particularly in the fields of LGBT rights, immigration and asylum, access to healthcare, anti-discrimination, and violence against women. Before joining Chambers, Avril taught in the LL.M programme at the Walther Schücking Institute for Public International Law.
Avril is contactable out of hours and is always happy to assist charities and NGO’s on a pro-bono basis.
Avril speaks fluent Irish and German and has a working knowledge of French and Spanish
Previous experience
Memberships
Secretary of the Human Rights Lawyers Association
Executive committee member, Inner Temple Junior Bar Association
Qualifications
LLB Law and German Trinity College Dublin
LLM Public International Law University of Amsterdam
MSc. European Integration and Development Vrije Universitat Brussels (Free University of Brussels)
PhD Candidate Walther Schücking Institute for Public International Law, Germany
