Fergal McGoldrick

Practice Areas

Fergal is a Senior Associate in the Media, Communications & Reputation, and Litigation & Dispute Resolution teams, specialising in media and communications, commercial litigation, and public and administrative law.

Career

Fergal acts for leading national and regional news groups in the defence of libel, privacy and data actions, and pre-publication injunction applications. He also acts for various corporates and business figures in managing and protecting reputations. Outside defamation and privacy, Fergal maintains a significant public law practice. He has acted in cases heard in all levels of the judicial system, including before the Supreme Court.

Professional Memberships

Law Society of Northern Ireland.

Personal

Qualifying as a Solicitor with commendation and awarded the Mills Selig Prize, Fergal joined Carson McDowell as a Solicitor from another specialist media law practice in 2015, and was promoted to Associate in 2018.

Fergal graduated with a degree in Law and Marketing in 2007 where he was awarded the Sweet & Maxwell University Law Prize, before completing an LLM in Human Rights Law and a Master’s degree in Business Studies.