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Ruairi Gillen is an accomplished advocacy trainer from Northern Ireland who regularly teaches advocacy courses in the UK and Europe for CPD Training (UK).

Ruairi has taught Higher Rights of Audience to a wide range of firms including CMS, Mayer Brown, Bird & Bird, Bristows, Cleary Gottlieb and K&L Gates. He has also delivered CPD Training (UK)’s PSC Advocacy & Communication Skills course to national and City firms. He was a member of the faculty which delivered a course on arbitration advocacy skills to Bär & Karrer in Zurich in 2022 and has also taught arbitration advocacy skills for CMS.

He is a tutor on Northern Ireland’s Advanced Advocacy course in Belfast, which accredits Higher Rights for Solicitors in Northern Ireland. He is also an advocacy tutor at Queens University Belfast and the Institute of Professional Legal Studies for trainee solicitors.

Ruairi is a Director of Gillen & Co Solicitors in Northern Ireland. He is a Solicitor Advocate specialising in Criminal and Extradition cases.  He represents clients in serious criminal investigations throughout Northern Ireland and regularly appears in the Crown Court and Court of Appeal. He has represented clients at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Luxembourg and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg.

In 2016 Ruairi was appointed as the Law Society of Northern Ireland’s expert on extradition to the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE). He regularly advises the Law Society on extradition consultations and is a member of the Law Society’s Police Station Representation committee. Ruairi is Treasurer of the Belfast Solicitors Association and Director of the Autism charity Sen Space Care and Respite Services.