Gerard Hogan previously served as Advocate General of the European Court of Justice from 2018 to 2021, a Judge of the Court of Appeal from 2014 to 2018 and a Judge of the High Court from 2010 to 2014.
30 Facts About Gerard Hogan
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Gerard Hogan was born in 1958, to Mai and Liam Hogan.
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Gerard Hogan's father was the deputy principal of Christian Brothers secondary school in the town.
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Gerard Hogan was educated at University College Dublin, from where he received BCL and LLM degrees in 1979 and 1981.
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Gerard Hogan co-authored his first book Prisoners' Rights: A Study in Irish Prison Law in 1981 with Paul McDermott and Raymond Byrne.
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Gerard Hogan obtained a John F Kennedy memorial scholarship to study for an LLM, which he earned in 1982 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
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Gerard Hogan was involved with the Progressive Democrats and in 1988 wrote the party's proposed new Constitution of Ireland with Michael McDowell.
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Gerard Hogan was called to the Bar in July 1984 and became a Senior Counsel in 1997.
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Gerard Hogan appeared domestically in cases in the High Court and the Supreme Court and internationally at the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice.
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Gerard Hogan is noted in particular for his experience in constitutional law.
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Gerard Hogan acted for the Attorney General of Ireland in references made by President Mary Robinson under Article 26 of the Constitution of Ireland to the Supreme Court regarding the Information Bill 1995 and the Employment Equality Bill of 1997.
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Gerard Hogan appeared again for the Attorney General in another reference made by President Mary McAleese regarding the Health Bill 2004.
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Gerard Hogan was a law lecturer and fellow at Trinity College Dublin from 1982 to 2007.
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Gerard Hogan lectured on constitutional law, competition law and the law of tort.
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Gerard Hogan is regarded as "one of the foremost constitutional and administrative lawyers in Ireland".
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Gerard Hogan is the co-author of Administrative Law in Ireland and JM Kelly: The Irish Constitution, the core Irish legal texts in Irish administrative and constitutional law respectively.
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Gerard Hogan has written a text on political violence and a book where he chronicled the origins of the Constitution of Ireland.
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Gerard Hogan appeared for Katherine Zappone and Ann Louise Gilligan in Zappone v Revenue Commissioners in the High Court and Miss D in her case related to the rights to travel abroad for an abortion.
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Gerard Hogan represented the State in the High Court and the Supreme Court in litigation that emerged following a court finding that an offence of unlawful carnal knowledge was unconstitutional.
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Gerard Hogan was involved in several tribunals and Oireachtas committee investigations, appearing either in the actual proceedings or in related court proceedings.
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Gerard Hogan represented Desmond O'Malley at the Beef Tribunal in 1992, Dermot Desmond at the Moriarty Tribunal in 2004, and Jim Higgins and Brendan Howlin in actions related to the Morris Tribunal.
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Gerard Hogan acted for the Committee on Members' Interests of Seanad Eireann in action taken by Ivor Callely.
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Gerard Hogan was the first barrister to appear in an Irish court without a wig, following the enactment of the Courts and Court Officers Act 1995.
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Gerard Hogan chaired the Department of Justice and Equality's Balance in Criminal Law Review Group, and was a member of three other review groups: the Constitution Review Group, the Competition and Mergers Review Group and the Offences Against the State Acts Review Group.
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Gerard Hogan was a member of the Competition Authority's Advisory Panel and the Committee on Court Practice and Procedure.
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Gerard Hogan was appointed a Judge of the High Court in 2010.
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Gerard Hogan was one of three judges who heard a case taken by Marie Fleming, seeking a right to die in 2012.
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Gerard Hogan subsequently became a Judge of the Court of Appeal upon its establishment in October 2014.
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Gerard Hogan's term began in October 2018 and would have expired in October 2024.
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Gerard Hogan's opinion was followed by the Court of Justice.