Education

M.Econ.Sc European Economics And Public Affairs (Dublin European Institute)

LL.M European Union (Commercial) Law (University of Leicester)

Separate Diplomas in Arbitration International Commercial Arbitration and Construction

Affiliations

Accredited Mediator by Irish Bar Council

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators 

Languages

Areas of Practice

• Arbitration
• Mediation
• Construction
• Contract especially where there is a cross border element involving the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Arran was called to the Bar in Dublin in 2003 and has also been admitted by the Middle Temple, Inn of Court of Northern Ireland and the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts. He has a general practice but is recognised in Ireland for his expertise in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and he also has a strong background in European Union and Employment Law.

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and an Accredited Mediator. From 2007-2010 he was a member of the (Irish) Private Residential Tenancies Board a statutory body which determines residential landlord-tenant disputes, which were formally heard before the courts, by using ADR. He is also a member of a number of other Irish and international arbitration panels including the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).

Arran is a member of the Bar Council of Ireland’s ADR Committee and was a lecturer in Dispute Resolution at Dublin City University during 2010/2011. He has been a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Panel of Tutors since 2006. In 2008 a textbook he co-authored ‘Arbitration Law’ was published and parts of the book have been cited and approved in Irish Superior Court judgements.  He is the author of twenty journal articles, published in Ireland and England, which mainly deal with ADR and which have been quoted in recent (Irish) Law Reform Commission papers.

He has been involved in 51 Alternative Dispute Resolution hearings either as the neutral or as a counsel advising one of the parties at or before hearing. These disputes have had a value between €1,000-€5,000,000 and whilst acting as counsel he successfully opposed an application, before the Irish Commercial Court, to remove an arbitrator in a dispute worth €3,000,000 where his leader was a Legal 500 ranked silk.