Rory McShane

Partner

Qualifications:

  • QUB BA Diploma in Social Studies
  • Admitted as a Solicitor in Northern Ireland 1973
  • Admitted as a Solicitor in the Republic of Ireland 1992
  • President of Law Society in Northern Ireland 2005/2006
  • Mediator

Responsible For:

Practice Development, Litigation, Commercial Property, Public and Administrative Law, Assets Recovery and Insolvency

Specialism:

Civil Litigation

Aoife McShane

Partner

Qualifications:

  • University of Newcastle upon Tyne 2007 LLB
  • Institute of Professional Legal Studies
  • Admitted as a Solicitor in Northern Ireland 2010
  • Admitted as a Solicitor in the Republic of Ireland 2020
  • Solicitor Advocate
  • Member of the Children Order Panel 2017
  • Member of the NIGALA Panel 2021

Responsible For:

Civil Litigation, specifically, accidents at work, commercial disputes, medical negligence and road traffic collisions.

Family Law including adoption, contact and residence, divorce and separation and domestic violence (Non-Molestation and Occupation Orders).

Aoife is an accredited member of the Law Society of Northern Ireland’s Children Order Panel and the Northern Ireland Guardian ad Litem Agency’s (NIGALA) Solicitors’ Panel, enabling her to represent children, as appointed by the Guardian ad Litem in Public Law Proceedings.

Aoife regularly deals with cases involving children in Northern Ireland, in private matters between parents involving issues of contact and residence of children, following separation.

Aoife also deals with Public Law cases involving the Health and Social Care Trusts in Northern Ireland, advising and representing families who have children in various types of care cases.

Specialism:

Civil Litigation and Family Law.

Millicent Tate

Partner

Qualifications:

  • Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Madrid Diploma 1999
  • QUB LL.B Honours Common and Civil Law with Hispanic Studies 2000
  • Certificate in Professional Legal Studies with Distinction
  • Admitted as a Solicitor in Northern Ireland 2003
  • Member of Agricultural Law Association
  • Member of Law Society’s Remuneration Panel
  • Admitted as a Solicitor in the Republic of Ireland 2020

Responsible For:

Wills and Probate, Domestic, Agricultural & Commercial Conveyancing, Trusts of clubs, churches and community associations

Specialism:

Conveyancing and Probate

Eimear Kane

Partner

Qualifications:

  • QUB LL.B Honours Law and Politics 2004
  • QUB LL.M Human Rights and Criminal Justice 2005
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice 2007
  • Admitted as a Solicitor in Northern Ireland 2010
  • Admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales 2010
  • Solicitor Advocate
  • Member of The Children Order Panel 2014
  • Member of The NIGALA Panel 2015

Responsible For:

Family Law to include divorce, separation, pre-nuptial agreements, and financial disputes pertaining from the breakdown of relationships.

Private and Public Law matters concerning children, to include Trust proceedings, adoption proceedings, and contact and residence arrangements.

Eimear is a member of The Law Society’s Children Order Panel and The NIGALA Solicitors’ Panel enabling her to represent children, as appointed by the Guardian ad Litem, in Public Law proceedings.

Civil Litigation to include road traffic collisions, medical negligence, accidents at work, and commercial disputes.

Employment Law.

Specialism:

Family Law and Civil Litigation.

Rosetta Hughes

Partner

Qualifications:

  • LLB Law degree from The Queens University of Belfast 1993
  • Admitted as a Solicitor in Northern Ireland in 1995
  • Rosetta joined McShanes Solicitors on 1st August 2022.
  • Rosetta brings with her 27 years of experience in domestic conveyancing, commercial conveyancing, all aspects of licencing law and the administration of Estates.
    Rosetta prides herself on getting things done in a timely, efficient, and professional way.

Specialism:

purchases, sales, mortgages, and re-mortgages of residential property.

Preparation of Leases for business property

Sale and purchase of business assets.

Landlord and Tenant Issues.

Representation at the Lands Tribunal.

Purchase and sale of commercial property.

Licencing of public house, hotels, restaurants, bookmaking offices, bingo clubs and registered clubs.

Making a Will in a tax efficient manner.

Administering an estate for you if you are named as executor in a Will.

Setting up lifetime Trusts.

Setting up Will Trusts.

Advising you on Enduring Powers of Attorney.

Administering estates in Intestacy cases- i.e., where the deceased made no Will.

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