Patrick Coghlin

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Sir Patrick Coghlin, PC (born 7 November 1945), is a retired member of the Court of Appeal of Northern Ireland.

Educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, Coghlin was called to the Bar in Northern Ireland in 1970; England and Wales (Gray's Inn) in 1975; and the Republic of Ireland and New South Wales, Australia, in 1993. He became Junior Crown Counsel in 1983, serving until 1985, when he was made a Queen's Counsel. He served as a deputy County Court judge from 1983 to 1994, and as Senior Crown Counsel for Northern Ireland 1993–97. He was appointed a judge of the High Court of Justice of Northern Ireland on 7 April 1997, [1] receiving the customary knighthood.

He was promoted to be a Lord Justice of Appeal of Northern Ireland on 5 September 2008. [2] That year, he was also appointed to a five-year term as a judicial member of the Northern Ireland Judicial Appointments Commission. In consequence of his promotion, he was appointed to the Privy Council in 2009. [3] He retired in 2015.

Coghlin was appointed President of the Lands Tribunal for Northern Ireland in 1999, and has been a member of the Council of the Association of European Competition Law Judges since 2002. He was elected an honorary bencher of Gray's Inn in 2000. [4]

He served in the following roles:

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References

  1. ↑ "No. 5816". The Belfast Gazette . 11 April 1997. p. 331.
  2. ↑ "No. 7014". The Belfast Gazette . 12 September 2008. p. 1089.
  3. ↑ "Orders for 11 February 2004". Privy Council Office. Archived from the original on 3 November 2010.
  4. ↑ "The Rt Hon Lord Justice Coghlin". Debrett's People of Today. Retrieved 26 August 2012.


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