PRESS NOTICE Wednesday 24th September 2008
The Lord Chief Justice has appointed Mr Justice McLaughlin to be the Deputy Chairman of the Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland. The appointment will run until 31 December 2011.
Mr Justice McLaughlin was educated at Christian Brothers’ Grammar School, St Mary’s, Belfast, Queen’s University and Strathclyde University. He was called to the Bars of Northern Ireland (1971), England and Wales (Gray’s Inn 1974), King’s Inn Dublin (1978) and New South Wales (1992) and was appointed as Queen’s Counsel in 1985. The judge is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and he has served as Chairman of the Bar Council of Northern Ireland and the Bar European Law Group. He was appointed a Judge of the Queen’s Bench Division on 6 September 1999.
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