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.
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.
Sir Maurice Gibson,PC,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 law life peerage under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876. At the time of his retirement on 30 September 2020,he was the longest-serving justice of the Supreme Court,and the court's last original member.
Sir William Anthony Campbell PC is a judge,former Lord Justice of Appeal in Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2008.
Sir Donnell Justin Patrick Deeny,KC,SC,styled as the Rt Hon Sir Donnell Deeny,is a mediator and arbitrator (ACIArb) and a former member of the Court of Appeal of Northern Ireland. Sir Donnell is also member of the Court of Arbitration for Art at The Hague.
Sir Charles Declan Morgan PC 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.
Thomas Watters Brown,KC,PC,PC (NI) was an Irish lawyer and politician.
Sir Stephen John Irwin,is a retired British judge and barrister. From September 2016 until October 2020,he was a Lord Justice of Appeal. From May 2006 to 2016,he served as a judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
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 DBE(born 6 June 1971) 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 Bernard McCloskey,,is a Northern Ireland judge,who has been a Lord Justice of Appeal since September 2019.
Sir John Clarke MacDermott,PC was a Northern Ireland barrister and judge.
