IMPLICATIONS OF THE ASSITED DECISION-MAKING (CAPACITY) ACT 2015 FOR OTHER AREAS OF LAW
21st October 2025 : 2.00pm to 5.00pm
Radisson, Blu Royal Hotel, Golden Lane, Dublin 8
- Implications for Conveyancing – Margaret Walsh
- Implications for Family Law – Keith Walsh
- Update on Case Law – Emma Slattery
- Update on Discharges from Wardship – Áine Hynes
Chair: Niall Cawley, President of the DSBA
SPEAKER
MARGARET WALSH is a partner in Sheil Solicitors, Margaret is a member and former Chair of the Law Society’s Probate Administration & Trust Committee and member of the Law Society Mental Health Law and Capacity Task Force. Margaret is the Editor of Irish Conveyancing Precedents, and lectures regularly to the Law Society’s Law School PPCI programme and on the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) Diploma Course. Margaret is a Board member of Solicitors for the Elderly Ireland and of Orbis Ireland.
KEITH WALSH SOLICITOR, Mediator & Collaborative lawyer, Senior Counsel. Keith has practiced in the area of legal separation, divorce in Ireland, relocation, civil litigation and family law cases with an international element since 2001. He is a past Chairman of the Law Society of Ireland’s Child & Family Law Committee and was founding Chairman of the DSBA’s Mental Health and Capacity Committee. He became involved in the mental health law area when he joined the Mental Health Commission’s Legal Representative panel for the Mental Health Act 2001 in 2007 and has brought a number of judicial reviews and article 40 applications resulting in judgements which clarified the rights of those subject to the Mental Health Act 2001. He has also been appointed to act as a Guardian Ad Litem by the High Court in cases involving vulnerable adults.
EMMA SLATTERY BL is a practising barrister specialising in capacity law and the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act. She is the author of The Assisted Decision-Making Handbook (Bloomsbury, 2024). Called to the Bar of Ireland in 2013 and the Bar of England and Wales in 2018, she regularly lectures and writes on capacity law and medico-legal issues. Emma is a CEDR qualified mediator; she acts as a mediator and quasi-judicial decision-maker for a number of state bodies. Emma is also member of Bar Council’s Human Rights Committee
ÁINE HYNES S.C. is a partner in public and administrative law in St. John Solicitors. Áine currently chairs the Law Society Mental Health Law and Capacity Taskforce and has made extensive submissions to government on appropriate amendments to the ADMCA. She has been involved in many circuit court applications under the ADMCA and recent High Court applications