Attorney-General
On 31 January 1922 Hugh Kennedy became the only Attorney-General of the Provisional Government of Southern Ireland.
In 1922 he was appointed by the Provisional Government of Southern Ireland to the Irish Free State Constitution Commission to draft the Constitution of the Irish Free State. It prepared the draft constitution. He was thus one of the constitutional architects of the Irish Free State. The Irish Free State was established on 6 December 1922, and the former Provisional Government of Southern Ireland ceased to exist, its functions being transferred to the newly created Executive Council of the Irish Free State.
On 7 December 1922 he was appointed by the Governor-General as the first Attorney-General of the Irish Free State.
In 1923 he was appointed to the Judiciary Commission by the Government of the Irish Free State, on a reference from the Government to establish a new system for the administration of justice in accordance with the Constitution of the Irish Free State. The Judiciary Commission was chaired by Lord Glenavy, who had also been the last Lord Chancellor of Ireland. It drafted the Courts of Justice Act 1924 for a new system of courts, including a High Court and a Supreme Court, and provided for the abolition, inter alia, of the Irish Court of Appeal and the Irish High Court of Justice. Most of the judges were not reappointed to the new courts.
He was also a delegate of the Irish Free State to the Fourth Assembly of the League of Nations between 3–29 September 1923.
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