- Malachy Higgins
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Sir Malachy Joseph Higgins QC (born 30 October 1944) is a Northern Ireland Lord Justice of Appeal and is styled as The Hon Mr Justice Higgins.
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Education
He was educated at St MacNissi's College, Garron Tower; Queens University Belfast (LLB) and Middle Temple (BL).
Legal background
- Called to the Northern Ireland Bar, 1969 (Bencher, 1993)
- Called to the Irish Bar, 1978
- Named QC (Northern Ireland), 1985
- Served as County Court Judge, 1988–1993
- Served as Recorder of Londonderry, 1990 to 1993
- Served as County Court Judge for County Armagh, 1993.
- Judge in Residence, QUB, 1999–present
Privy Council
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.” (see Notice of Higgins' appointment to Privy Council)
Queen's University Belfast
Sir Malachy Higgins was named as Chairman of the Queen's University Belfast's Board of Visitors for a period that began in 2008 and ends in 2013.
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Categories:- 1944 births
- Living people
- Alumni of Queen's University Belfast
- Barristers from Northern Ireland
- Judges in Northern Ireland
- Knights Bachelor
- Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
- Queen's Counsel 1901–2000
- Queen's Counsel 2001–2100
- Lords Justice of Appeal of Northern Ireland
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