About Bernard L Gaughran & Company

ABOUT US
We are Solicitors based in Malahide, Co. Dublin. Established in 1978, we provide a personal service to our private and corporate clients across Ireland, providing a comprehensive range of legal services.

Our growing practice is dedicated to keeping pace with changes in today's environment, servicing the needs of business and individuals in the 21st century.

We believe that we charge fair fees for the time, effort and expertise that we put in to each case. Please call us today to set up an appointment!


HOW TO CONTACT US:

Phone us: 01-8038124
Email us: law@gaughran.com
Fill on an online enquiry form on our website or at the bottom of this page

OUR SERVICES:
Property Law
Personal Injury
Wills and Probate
Corporate & Commercial Law
Employment Law
Family Law
Licensing Law
Litigation
Landlord & Tenant

MORE ABOUT OUR SERVICES

Property Law
We have been involved in conveyancing law for up to 40 years and have seen many changes, some of which have been quite challenging. We have advised our clients through all the changes in the legislation and the market. Our approach is a hands-on approach. Commercial property, including leases often involve considerable negotiation of which we have wide experience.
We have extensive experience in representing our clients in the sale and purchase of new or second hand properties for first time buyers, owner occupiers, or investors. We also represent clients in the sale or purchase of agricultural land and commercial property of all varieties.
We have acted for many young couples and individuals in buying their first property and have assisted them and guided them through every phase of the transaction. We also advise our clients in relation to ancillary mortgage issues and guide and assist our clients through the legal and conveyancing requirements of their lending institution.
We assist our clients by advising on a broad range of issues relating to conveyancing transactions including matters concerning title, contracts, building agreements, stamp duty, estate agents, management companies and all planning issues. We also assist clients in preparation of all forms of Letting Agreements on residential properties including advices on PRTB applications. We deal with all aspects of registration in the Land Registry and Registry of Deeds and also deal with ground rent applications and Local Authority conveyancing.

Personal Injury
We have 40 years experience in dealing with personal injury cases from the District Court right up to the Supreme Court.
We have represented many clients arising from all types of accidents including road traffic accidents, accidents at work, personal injury arising from slip and fall type cases and also personal injury arising from medical negligence to list but a few examples.
Many of our personal injury cases have involved serious injury and have resulted in high level of awards of compensation for our clients.
Under current legislation applications must be made to the Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB) at first instance and we provide full professional advices on all aspects of these procedures. We work very closely with our clients in preparation and collation of all details of personal injury claims.

Wills and Probate
We advise our clients comprehensively in relation to all issues and factors to be taken into account in preparing a Will and discuss not only legal criteria under the Succession Act and Taxation matters but also family background and circumstances. Quite often problems can be avoided through detailed engagement and consultation with us.
We have over the years extracted many Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration and have assisted our clients and their families with the administration of estates through all phases. We offer a broad range of advices in this area and have long experience in dealing with the Revenue Commissioners, Banks, Insurance Companies, Probate Office. We feel we have very efficient systems in place and adopt a step by step and practical hands on approach to administering estates in a sensitive and efficient manner.

Corporate & Commercial Law
We advise small and medium companies on a range of company, corporate and commercial law matters including company governance and requirements under the various Companies Acts including legal criteria for meetings, EGMs, AGMs, resolutions and records. We also advise directors and shareholders on their powers, obligations, rights and duties under Irish Company Law. Our firm have acted in advising small and medium companies on the sale or purchase of a business including advices on share, sale and purchase Agreements and Shareholder and Partnership Agreements and many other forms of commercial agreements.

Employment Law
We provide legal advice on a range of employment law issues in Ireland on matters such as employment contracts, unfair dismissal, redundancy, discrimination, bullying and harassment, health and safety and appraisals of statutory obligations.

We have engaged on behalf of our clients through the Courts, Employments Appeal Tribunal, Equality Tribunal or Rights Commissioners in various employment law disputes and this is an area of law where more and more of our clients are seeking our advice whether as employers or employees.

Family Law
We have extensive experience in advising clients in all areas of family law including divorce, judicial separation, nullity and Separation Agreements with ancillary issues such as maintenance, access, custody, guardianship, civil partnership and all related legal issues. We also represent a lot of clients who are unmarried and have guided them through the legal criteria relevant to their circumstances. This is a sensitive area of law and our approach is to support our clients and to seek solutions to the difficulties through interaction with our clients. We monitor all current developments in legislation and case law and how new developments or approaches impact on pensions, property, mortgages, family assets, children and other issues.

Licensing Law
We have a broad range of experience in advising clients on legal issues concerning licensed premises both, on-licenses and off-licenses as well as music and public singing licenses, public dance licenses and restaurant certificates. We have also dealt with licenses for hotels and clubs and have dealt with lots of miscellaneous licenses such as gaming and lotteries through the District and Circuit Courts.

Litigation
We advise our clients with regard to many types of cases in the District Court, Circuit Court, High Court and Supreme Court, including many varied matters such as commercial litigation of all nature including representing clients in the commercial division of the High Court, partnership disputes, shareholder disputes, employment litigation representing the interests of both employer and employee in many different situations, litigation involving intellectual property, road traffic matters, drunk driving prosecutions, injunctions of all nature, disputes involving property boundaries and litigation involving property in all manner of different circumstances.
We also have engaged in litigation arising out of probate and estates and have also a broad range of experience in advising both Landlords and Tenants on disputes and litigation that arise from commercial and residential lettings of property in Ireland.
Quite often our advice is to consider other approaches other than litigation and in this regard we have been successfully engaged in mediation. Bernard Gaughran is an accredited mediator.

Landlord & Tenant
We also have a broad experience in advising both Landlords and Tenants in negotiating and putting in place Commercial Leases whether on a long or short term basis and advising in relation to all commercial and legal issues which arise.