Analysis of Supreme Court of Ireland; hosted @TCDLawSchool, sponsored @Pinsent_Masons, published @ClarusPress; annual conference @TCDdublin (tweets by @cearta)
Oct 3, 2018 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
1/9 Given all the chatter online about the first majority female panels in the Supreme Courts of New Zealand and the United Kingdom this week, I did some digging to find the first one in Ireland. It's more than EIGHTEEN years ago.
2/9 Denham J was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court, in 1992; McGuinness J was the second, in January 2000; and a female 2-1 majority on a 3-judge panel of the Supreme Court happened almost immediately after that appointment, in February 2000.
