James Brian Edward Hutton,Baron Hutton,PC was a British Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.
The Green Party Northern Ireland is a political party in Northern Ireland. Like many green political parties around the world,its origins lie in the anti-nuclear,labour and peace movements of the 1970s and early 1980s.
The Royal Courts of Justice in Chichester Street,Belfast is the home of the Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland established under the Judicature Act 1978. This comprises the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal,High Court of Northern Ireland and the Crown Court in Northern Ireland. It is a Grade A listed building.
The courts of Northern Ireland are the civil and criminal courts responsible for the administration of justice in Northern Ireland:they are constituted and governed by the law of Northern Ireland.
The Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland is a judge who is the appointed official holding office as President of the Courts of Northern Ireland and is head of the Judiciary of Northern Ireland. The present Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland is Dame Siobhan Keegan. Her counterpart in England and Wales is the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales,and in Scotland her equivalent is the Lord President of the Court of Session. The position was established with the creation of Northern Ireland in 1922,and was preceded by the position of Lord Chief Justice of Ireland prior to the partition of Ireland.
Sir William Moore,1st Baronet,PC (NI),DL was a Unionist member of the British House of Commons from Ireland and a Judge of Ireland,and subsequently of Northern Ireland. He was created a Baronet in 1932.
The Rt Hon. Sir Maurice Gibson,P.C.,was a Lord Justice of Appeal in Northern Ireland. He was killed,along with his wife Cecily,Lady Gibson by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).
Major Sir Lancelot Ernest Curran was a Northern Ireland High Court judge and parliamentarian.
Brian Francis Kerr,Baron Kerr of Tonaghmore,,was a Northern Irish barrister and a senior judge. He held office as Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and then as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. In 2009,he was the last person to receive a life peerage under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876. At the time of his retirement on 30 September 2020,he was the longest serving Supreme Court Justice,and the last original member of the Court.
Sir Charles Declan Morgan PC KC is a retired judge from Northern Ireland.
Sir Ambrose Joseph McGonigal,MC was a High Court Judge in Northern Ireland.
The courts of assizes or assizes were the higher criminal court in Ireland outside Dublin prior to 1924. They have now been abolished in both jurisdictions.
Sir Paul Richard Maguire PC,styled The Rt. Hon. Lord. Justice Maguire,was an Appeal Court judge in Northern Ireland until his retirement in 2022. Prior to that he was a barrister and a politician.
Donal Gerard O'Donnell is an Irish judge who is the Chief Justice of Ireland since October 2021. He has served as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland since January 2010. He practised as a barrister between 1982 and 2010,specialising in commercial law and public law.
Sir John Patrick Basil Higgins,known as Sir Eoin Higgins,was a judge of the High Court of Northern Ireland. He was knighted in 1988.
Dame Siobhan Roisin Keegan,is a Northern Irish judge who has been Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland since September 2021. She was formerly a judge of the High Court of Northern Ireland from October 2015 until her appointment as Lord Chief Justice,prior to which,she practised as a barrister specialising in family law.
Sir John Gillen,PC,previously known as The Rt Hon Lord Justice Gillen,and before that as Mr Justice Gillen,is a Privy Councillor and was one of the Lords Justices of Appeal of Northern Ireland,from September 2014-November 2017.
Sir John Clarke MacDermott,PC was a Northern Ireland barrister and judge.
Malachai O'Hara,usually known as Mal O'Hara,is a Northern Irish politician who has been the Leader of the Green Party Northern Ireland since August 2022,and was Deputy Leader of the Green Party from 2019 to 2022. O’Hara has been a councillor on Belfast City Council since 2019.
