John Sludds
John
is a director in the firm and has been with the firm for in excess of 25 years. He is a Fellow of
Institute
of
Legal Costs Accountants and a former member of the Institute’s
Council. He is vastly experienced in respect of all aspects of legal
costs with a particular emphasis on professional negligence, product
liability, commercial, judicial review and personal injury cases.
Contact: john.sludds@behans.ie
Paul Conlon
Paul
is a director in the firm and has an extensive knowledge of legal
costs with defamation and libel being a particular speciality. He
also has extensive experience and knowledge of costs in respect of
personal injury, injunctions and professional negligence cases. Paul
has been with the firm for some 25 years and is a Fellow of
the Institute of Legal Costs Accountants. He is a former member of
the Council of the Institute of Legal Costs Accountants.
Contact: paul.conlon@behans.ie
Aidan O'Connor
Aidan
is a director in the firm and has been with the firm since 1997. He
is a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Costs Accountants and a former
member of the Institute’s Council. He has a broad, extensive
knowledge of all aspects of legal costs with personal injury,
judicial review, family law and tribunal costs being a particular
speciality.
Contact: aidan.oconnor@behans.ie
Shane Galligan
Shane
is a director in the firm and has been with the firm since 1998. He
is a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Costs Accountants and is a
current member of the Institute’s Council. He is also a member of
the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is vastly experienced in
all aspects of legal costs with a particular interest in arbitration,
commercial, injunctive proceedings, professional negligence and
personal injury matters.
Contact: shane.galligan@behans.ie
Sharon Fagan
Sharon
has been with the firm for over eighteen years. She is a
fellow of the Institute of Legal Costs Accountants and has a vast
knowledge of all aspects of legal costs. She currently heads our
Circuit Court department, however, in addition has vast experience of
taxing of costs before the Taxing Masters of the
High Court. Sharon
specialises in personal injury costs, debt collection costs, High
Court judicial reviews and has a very broad range of experience of
dealing with all aspects of legal costs having taxed Circuit Court
costs throughout the length and breadth of the country.
Contact: sharon.fagan@behans.ie
Sinead Mulholland
Sinead joined the firm in 2017. She holds a BA in Sociology, Politics and Law, an LLB in Law and an LLM in Law and is a student member of the Institute of Legal Costs Accountants. She currently works with Shane Galligan and has already gained experience in respect of the preparation of Circuit Court Bills of Costs and has appeared before both the County Registrar and the Taxing Master.
Contact: sinead.mulholland@behans.ie
Mark Aungier
Mark is a Bachelor of Arts in Legal Studies. He joined the firm in 2017 initially in the position of Court Clerk and has progressed to the position of trainee Legal Costs Accountant where he is currently training under Aidan O’Connor. Mark has already gained experience in the preparation of bills of costs and has been taxing Bills of Costs before the County Registrar in the Circuit Court.
Contact: mark.aungier@behans.ie
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