Feted on his retirement in 2010 as one of the most respected and well-loved judges of his time, Geoghegan told the members of the profession assembled in the Supreme Court to bid him farewell that he ‘always felt that I was a barrister fundamentally’
Geoghegan told members of the profession assembled in the Supreme Court to bid him farewell that he ‘always felt that I was a barrister fundamentally’As a barrister and judge of the Superior Courts, Hugh Geoghegan, who died after a long illness aged 86, added lustre to his family’s long history in the legal profession and lived to see two of his children become successful barristers.
Entering University College Dublin in 1958, he studied law and got a first in the LLB degree. A keen debater, he became auditor of the college Law Society; his inaugural meeting to which he gave an address on toleration, was one of the best of its time.
From 1984, he combined a busy practice with service as Public Service Arbitrator; as such, he displayed such courtesy and respect for all contending parties that he left even the unsuccessful feeling they had got a fair hearing.
However, he showed himself capable of cutting through legal niceties in O’Keeffe v Ireland when, as a lone dissenter on the Supreme Court, he refused to accept the argument that the State could escape liability for the misconduct of a teacher in a national school because such teachers were formally employed by the parish, not the State. His view was upheld by the European Court of Human Rights.
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