King’s Inns welcomes applications for the Gaffney Scholarship 2024!
It provides that the Education Committee may remit course fees payable by students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds who face exceptional hardship.
Deadline for Applications: July 1, 2024
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King’s Inns Gaffney Scholarship 2024
The Scholarship is named in honour of Maurice Gaffney SC (1916–2016). Holding a BA in Economics from UCD (1939) and H. Dip in Education (1943), Maurice was a teacher at Glenstal Abbey and at James’s Street, Dublin. He studied for the Bar at night and was admitted to the degree of Barrister–at–Law at King’s Inns in 1954.
Maurice Gaffney was made Senior Counsel in 1970 and practised at the Bar of Ireland for 62 years until his death aged 100 years. He worked in criminal law, conveyancing and property, landlord and tenant and employment law and served as Chair of the Employment Appeals Tribunal.
Maurice Gaffney (c) Dara Mac Dónaill
Scholarship aim and purpose:
The Maurice Gaffney Scholarship provides that the Education Committee of King’s Inns may remit course fees payable by students from socio–economically disadvantaged backgrounds who face exceptional hardship and wish to attend the course leading to the Diploma in Legal Studies.
The Scholarship consists of:
- Remission of the fees payable in whole or part thereof in both year 1 and year 2 of the Diploma in Legal Studies course;
- It includes any repeat assessments on course up to the limit of attempts permitted under the Education Rules of King’s Inns (Edition of June 2021);
- Where a Gaffney Scholar chooses to undertake the Entrance Examination to the degree of Barrister–at–Law course, the fee or part thereof, for ONE attempt at that examination will also be remitted.
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Deadline for Applications: July 1, 2024
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