Mr Justice Mark Sanfey studied Law in Trinity College Dublin and graduated in 1982. He obtained a Barrister-at-Law degree from the Kings Inns in 1987 and commenced practice that year. He was called to the Inner Bar in 2004, and practised primarily in the areas of chancery, commercial, insolvency and construction law. He was appointed to the High Court in December 2019, and has presided mainly in the Chancery and Commercial courts. He was appointed Judge in charge of the Chancery List in October 2023, and Judge in charge of the Commercial List in December 2024; he has also presided as Judge in charge of the Arbitration, Personal Insolvency, and Bankruptcy Lists.
Mr Justice Michael Twomey was appointed to the High Court of Ireland in January 2016 and has spent the majority of his time sitting in the Commercial Division. He studied law in University College Cork, holds a Ph.D. in law from University College Dublin, was a Visiting Researcher in Harvard Law School and a lecturer in law in Trinity College Dublin. He was elected a bencher of King’s Inns in 2016 and is an accredited mediator with CEDR. Prior to his appointment to the High Court, he practised in commercial law, specialising in the law of partnership and he was a consultant to the Law Commission of England & Wales and the Scottish Law Commission in relation to their joint Report on Partnership Law. He is the author of “Twomey on Partnership” (Bloomsbury Professional, 2nd ed., 2020), the leading partnership law text in Ireland.
Mr Justice Michael Quinn was appointed a judge of the High Court in 2018. He is assigned to the Commercial Division and to hear examinership and insolvency matters under the Companies Act 2014. He is a Bencher of the King’s Inns in Dublin. Prior to his appointment he practised as a solicitor specialising in corporate restructuring and insolvency and was a CEDR accredited mediator. He is a Past President of INSOL Europe (the European Association of Insolvency Practitioners) and is Co Chair of the Judicial Wing of INSOL Europe. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the EU Project on Judicial CoOperation for Economic Recovery in Europe. He was a founder member and Chair of the Irish Society of Insolvency Practitioners.
Ms Justice Eileen Roberts is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin. She was appointed to the High Court in July 2022, initially to the chancery division and then to the Commercial Court in October 2023. She is also one of the judges assigned to hear examinership and insolvency matters under the Companies Act 2014. She is a Bencher of the King’s Inns. Prior to her appointment she practised as a solicitor specialising in large-scale commercial litigation. She was a founder member of the Commercial Litigation Association of Ireland (CLAI) and chaired the group which authored the CLAI’s good practice discovery guide for the conduct of litigation in Ireland. She is a CEDR accredited mediator and a former committee member of the Irish Commercial Mediation Association. Ms. Justice Roberts was appointed by the Government as a Part-Time Commissioner of the Law Reform Commission for a five year term commencing on 1 February 2024
The Commercial List is also supported by Mr Justice Max Barrett.