He subsequently worked as a solicitor in Bailhache Labesse, Bank of Ireland and as Head of Legal in Rabobank.
[5] Barrett has written several legal texts on financial law,[2] a series of case-law indices published by Blackstones and a book on the judicial functions of the House of Lords, published by Palgrave MacMillan,[6] as well as The Art and Craft of Judgment Writing: A Primer for Common Law Judges, and more recently, Great Legal Writing: Lessons from Literature, both published by Globe Law.
Section 56(9)(a) did not recognise marriages of refugees for family reunification purposes which took place after arriving in Ireland.
The ruling held that the requirement in the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956 for one year's continuous residence for the period prior to an application must be given a literal reading, and concluded that there was no basis for the Department of Justice and Equality's discretionary policy of permitting six weeks absence from Ireland.
[28] The implied effect of the judgment anyone seeking Irish citizenship would become ineligible if they broke the chain of one year's continuous residence.
[33] In a 2016 case involving the relatives of the Easter Rising, he declared that Moore Street was a National Monument in 2016 in a 399-page judgment.
[35] Fully four years after this ruling, Barrett wrote a letter to the editor of The Irish Times expressing his disappointment of what he felt was a lack of vision by the authorities for Moore Street.