Seán Guerin SC

Seán Guerin SC is Chair of the Bar of Ireland, the representative body for the barristers’ profession in Ireland. Educated at St Peter’s College Wexford and St Andrew’s College, Dublin, he studied law at University College Dublin and Université de Nancy II (France). He qualified as a barrister at King’s Inns and was called to the Bar in 1997. He also has postgraduate qualifications in law from University College Dublin (commercial law) and King’s College London (European law).

He has been in practice at the Bar of Ireland since 1998 and was called to the Inner Bar and appointed Senior Counsel in 2013. Based at the Law Library in Dublin, he practices mainly in public law – including criminal, regulatory, and administrative law. He has served for many years on the Professional Practices Committee of the Bar Council and has been chair of the Criminal State Bar Committee since 2022