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Sir Malachy Joseph Higgins KC (born 30 October 1944) is a retired Northern Ireland Lord Justice of Appeal.
He was educated at St MacNissi's College, Garron Tower; Queen's University Belfast (LLB) and Middle Temple (BL).
On 25 January 2007, Higgins was "sworn of Her Majesty’s most honourable Privy Council on his appointment as a Lord Justice of Appeal in Northern Ireland."
Sir Malachy Higgins was Chairman of the Queen's University Belfast's Board of Visitors from 2008 to 2013.
James Brian Edward Hutton, Baron Hutton, PC was a British Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.
John Clarke MacDermott, Baron MacDermott,, PC (NI), was a Northern Irish politician, barrister, and judge who served as Attorney-General for Northern Ireland, a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, and Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland. He was the first law lord to be appointed from Northern Ireland.
Sir Donald Bruce Murray PC was a Lord Justice of Appeal of the Supreme Court 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 Frederick Paul Girvan PC is a retired Northern Irish judge. He was educated at Larne Grammar School, Belfast Royal Academy, Clare College, Cambridge (BA) and Queen's University, Belfast.
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.
The Rt Hon. Sir John William Basil Kelly, PC, PC (NI), QC, usually known as Sir Basil Kelly, was a Northern Irish barrister, judge and politician.
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 John Joseph Sheil is a retired Northern Irish judge. He was a High Court Judge of Northern Ireland from 1989 to 2004, and a Lord Justice of Appeal of Northern Ireland from 2004 to 2007.
Sir Charles Declan Morgan PC is a retired judge from Northern Ireland.
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.
Sir Patrick Coghlin, PC, is a retired member of the Court of Appeal of Northern Ireland.
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 Megaw, was a British judge who eventually rose to Lord Justice of Appeal and Irish international rugby union player.
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 Seamus Treacy is a Lord Justice of Appeal in the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal.
Sir John Clarke MacDermott, PC was a Northern Ireland barrister and judge.