Brian Murray

Brian R. Murray is an Irish lawyer who is a judge of the Supreme Court. He was a judge of the Court of Appeal between November 2019 and February 2022. He worked as a barrister practicing in public and commercial law prior to becoming a judge. Early life Murray received a BA degree from Trinity College Dublin and completed an LLM at the University of Cambridge. He won the Irish Times Debate in 1984 for the College Historical Society. He subsequently attended the King's Inns. He was called to the Bar in 1989 and became a senior counsel in 2002. Legal career Murray practised in the areas of constitutional and commercial law. He represented the State in 2005 in defending a judicial review case taken by the former judge Brian Curtin. He has also appeared for the State and the Data Protection Commissioner in defending actions launched by Max Schrems, the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement in a case against Independent News & Media and the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation against members of the Seán Quinn family. He represented Bertie Ahern in the High Court against the Mahon Tribunal in 2008. He has acted for the State in a first instance hearing taken by Graham Dwyer, the man convicted of the murder of Elaine O'Hara, in the High Court, regarding the applicability of the Data Retention Directive in Irish law. In addition to appearing in the Irish courts, Murray has also acted as counsel for Ireland in the two EU courts, the General Court and the Court of Justice. He acted for Ireland in Ireland v Commission.