Masters of the Bench

Ruth Kirby was born and educated in Ireland before completing her LLM in Employment Law at the LSE. She has specialised in family law and Court of Protection work for more than 20 years, where she has always had an emphasis on international children work. In 2004, she was Called to the Irish Bar.

Ruth has been involved in the Inn from the start of her career when she was part of the first pupils’ advocacy course.  She has now been a trainer on the modern version of that course for 12 years. Ruth worked as a waitress, a postal courier, a lecturer, and a journalist before starting her second six pupillage when her son was five months old.  She and her siblings are first generation entrants to tertiary education. She is a great believer in the strength that is brought to the Bar by the diversity of which she has been part for the past 20 years at the Bar.  Ruth took Silk in 2021.