Ruth Cannon BL

Ruth is a barrister practising in Ireland and a lecturer in Property Law and Evidence Law at the Technological University of Dublin.

Ruth was called to the Irish Bar in 1999, having previously obtained an LLB from Trinity College, where she was a Scholar, followed by a BCL (taught Master’s degree) from Oxford University.

Ruth has appeared as Junior Counsel in the Circuit and Superior Courts in all areas of landlord and tenant, probate and property law including but not confined to ejectment proceedings, boundary disputes, disputes in relation to interpretation of deeds and leases, easements and adverse possession claims, claims under the Landlord and Tenant (Amendment) Act 1980 and the Landlord and Tenant (Ground Rents) Acts 1967-2019, applications under Sections 25 and 26 of the Trustee Act 1893, Sections 26, 27 and 117 of the Succession Act 1965 and Section 50 of the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009.

Judicial decisions in Superior Court cases in which Ruth has appeared as Junior Counsel include the following:

Dublin Port Company v Automation Transport Limited [2024] IECA 41 (Court of Appeal); [2019] IEHC 499 (High Court Commercial List)

Minogue v Clare County Council [2021] IECA 98 (Court of Appeal)

Begley v Damesfield Limited [2020] IECA 171 (Court of Appeal); [2018] IEHC 221 (High Court);

KW Investment Funds ICAV v Lorgan Leisure Limited [2020] IEHC 132 (High Court Commercial List)

Fastwell v OCL Capital [2018] IEHC 39 (High Court)

Meier v Lynch [2017] IEHC 769 (High Court)

Sacco v Boylan [2017] IEHC 665 (High Court)

The Leopardstown Club v Templeville Developments Ltd and Philip Smyth  (No. 2)[2017] IESC 50 (Supreme Court); [2015] IECA 164 (Court of Appeal); [2013] IEHC 526 (High Court)

Larianov Foundation v Leo Prendergast and Sons (Engineering) [2017] IEHC 192 (High Court)

Cunningham v Bank of Scotland plc [2017] IECA 254 (Court of Appeal)

Perfect Pies Limited (in Receivership) v Chupn Ltd [2015] IEHC 692 (High Court)

Murphy v Hooton 22 May 2014 (High Court)

The Leopardstown Club Limited v Templeville Developments Ltd (No. 1) [2010] IEHC 152 (High Court)

Re O’Brien’s Sandwich Bars Limited [2009] IEHC 465 (High Court)

Foley v Mangan [2009] IEHC 404 (High Court)

Ruth has also provided to solicitors numerous opinions on title and probate issues and drafted many deeds and applications to the Property Registration Authority.

Ruth has published widely in the area of property law and currently edits the Conveyancing and Property Law Journal. She has delivered many papers on property law at academic and professional conferences and presentations on property law to semi-state bodies and solicitors’ firms.  

Ruth is a member of the Law Library of Ireland and her contact details are available on its website.