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A woman with experience in immigration, planning, family, and criminal law has been appointed as a Judge in Guernsey's Royal Court.
Fionnuala Connolly will be sworn in during a sitting of the Full Court just after Easter.
Ms Connolly is currently a Barrister at the Bar of Northern Ireland where she practises and has wide experience over many years.
She was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 1996, and called to the Bar of Ireland in 2018.
She studied Common and Civil Law with French at Queen’s University Belfast and has practised across a broad spectrum of legal areas, including judicial review, family law, planning law, criminal law, asylum and immigration, extradition, inquests, civil law and EU law.
Ms Connolly is a former Legal Chair of the Police Appeals Tribunal in Northern Ireland and is author and co-author of publications on both immigration law and planning law.
Pictured top: (inset) Fionnuala Connolly.
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