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Queen"s University Belfast. Clare College.
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Paul Girvan
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Sworn of Her Majesty"s Most Honourable Privy Council on 25 January 2007 on his appointment as a Lord Justice of Appeal of the Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland. In July 2006 he delivered a judgment in Downes (Re), Application for Judicial Review, criticising the appointment of Mrs Bertha McDougall as Interim Victims Commissioner. The judgment was criticised by the former Secretary for State for Northern Ireland, Peter Hain, in his memoir Outside In.
In March 2012 the Attorney-General of Northern Ireland began proceedings against Hain and the publishers alleging contempt of court, alleging contempt of court, although these were subsequently dropped.
He retired in 2015.
Called to the Bar: Northen Ireland, 1971
Junior Crown Counsel, Northen Ireland, 1979-1982
Queen"s Counsel (Northen Ireland), 1982
Chairman: Council of Law Reporting for Northen Ireland, 1994-2001
Law Reform Advisory Committee for Northen Ireland, 1997 -2004 (Member since 1994)
Honorary Bencher, Gray"s Inn, 1999.
