Laura Rafferty

Environment and Planning

Laura is Of Counsel in the Environment & Planning Group.  Laura is a former Senior Associate and Barrister whose practice and experience covers all areas of environmental, planning, infrastructure, and health and safety law.

Laura has extensive experience across the full spectrum of Planning, Environmental and Health & Safety law and has played a key role in advising on some of the most complex and significant transactions and litigation over the last five years.  She has a special focus on risk assessing major infrastructural, housing and energy projects. Laura regularly advises on contentious and non-contentious matters arising out of the pre-planning, planning, development and funding of projects with a regular focus on housing and renewables. She also has a particular specialism in the adversarial areas of planning judicial review, injunctive relief and criminal enforcement proceedings.

BCL (European), 2007, University College Dublin Barrister-at-Law degree, 2008, The Honourable Society of King’s Inn Called to the Bar of Ireland, 2008 Called to the Bar of Northern Ireland, 2012 Admitted as a solicitor in Ireland, 2015 Member of the Law Society of Ireland Member of Irish Environmental Law Association Member of Health and Safety Lawyers of Ireland