13 February 2019
Coroner McGurgan speaks to Clinical Negligence Practitioner’s Group
Paddy
Mullarkey, Chair of the Law Society of Northern Ireland's, Clinical Negligence
Management Board welcomed Patrick McGurgan, Coroner to Law Society House.
Coroner
McGurgan spoke to members of the solicitor profession on 'Death Reporting to the Coroner’s Office and a decision to hold an
inquest'.
The
seminar is the second in a series organised by the Clinical Negligence
Practitioner’s Group.
Patrick
McGurgan qualified as a solicitor in 1994 and was a partner/director in the
firm of Gus Campbell Solicitors in Portadown and Armagh from 1996 until 2016.
He previously held roles as the Vice- Chairman of St. Patrick’s PS Board of
Governors, Chairman of the Northern Ireland Social Care Council Disciplinary
Committee, Chairman of the Civil Legal Aid Appeals Committee, Chairman of the
Police Appeals Tribunal, Traffic Penalty Adjudicator, Chairman of the Northern
Ireland Boy’s Football Association Disciplinary Committee. He has completed the
Advanced Advocacy Course and the Law Society Mediation Course in addition to
the Collaborative law Course.
He currently sits on the Management Committee of the Armagh Observatory and
Planetarium.
He was
sworn into the office of Coroner on 6th April 2016.