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Ruth Cannon BL qualified as a barrister in 1999 having previously obtained an LLB from Trinity College Dublin followed by a Master’s degree (the BCL) from Oxford University. She was elected a Scholar of Trinity College in 1993 and was subsequently the recipient of a British Council/Chevening Scholarship in respect of her study at Oxford. Since then, she has been practising as a barrister in the area of civil law, specialising in property and probate law. She has also lectured in property law and evidence law in many institutions, including the Honourable Society of King’s Inns, Trinity College Dublin, and the Technological University of Dublin (formerly DIT) and published many articles and a text on property law now in its third edition, in addition to co-authoring texts on evidence law and an annotated version of the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009. She is an editor of the Conveyancing and Property Law Journal and has contributed chapters on property law and contract law to the Annual Review of Irish Law, and a chapter on Ireland in several editions of an international publication on evidence law.