Paul Girvan (judge)

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Sir (Frederick) Paul Girvan, styled Rt Hon Lord Justice Girvan was born in 1948. Educated at Larne Grammar School, Belfast Royal Academy, Clare College, Cambridge (BA), Queen's University, Belfast; Created Knight Bachelor on his appointment to as a Justice of the High Court of Northern Ireland, 1995. Sworn of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council on 25th January 2007^[1] on his appointment as a Lord Justice of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland.

Called to the Bar: NI, 1971; Junior Crown Counsel, NI, 1979 - 82; Queen's Counsel (NI), 1982; Chancellor, Diocese of Armagh (Church of Ireland), 1999 -. Chairman: Council of Law Reporting for NI, 1994-2001; Law Reform Advisory Committee for NI, 1997 -2004 (Member, 1994 -). Hon. Bencher, Gray's Inn, 1999.

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