Background
O'BRIEN, Mr Justice James Aiden was born on January 3, 1932 in Tipperary. Son of the late William Patrick Quinn and Helen Mary Quinn (nee Walshe).
O'BRIEN, Mr Justice James Aiden was born on January 3, 1932 in Tipperary. Son of the late William Patrick Quinn and Helen Mary Quinn (nee Walshe).
Presentation College, Bray, University College Dublin and King's Inns, Dublin. Banking, National City Bank, Dublin 1949-1953.
Assistant AttorneyGen. and Acting Attorney-General, West Cameroon 1964-1966. Procureur-General pres la Cour Supreme Cameroun Occidental 1966-1968. Avocat-General pres la Cour Federale de Justice, Cameroun 1966-1968.
Conseiller a la Cour Federale de Justice, Yaounde, Cameroun 1968-1972. President du Tribunal Administratif du Cameroun Occidental 1968-1972. Conseiller Technique (Harmonisation des Lois), Yaounde, Cameroun 1968-1972.
Attorney-General of Seychelles and British Indian Ocean Territory 1972-1976. Chief Justice of Seychelles 1976-1977. Acted as Deputy Government of Seychelles for a period during 1974.
Judge of High Court of Solomon Islands 1977-1981. Chief Justice of Botswana 1981-1987. Chair, of Judicial Service Commission, Botswana 1981: Third Place, Institute of Bankers in Ireland 1950.
Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la Valeur, Cameroun 1967. Queen's Counsel, Seychelles 1973. Kiribati Independence.
Seychelles dels, on self-govt, and independence constitutions 1975, 1976.
Married Christel Mary Tyner in 1960.