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25 June 2021
Issue: 7938 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , In Court
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Lady Chief Justice

Mrs Justice Keegan is to be appointed as the first Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland

She will be sworn into office at the start of September 2021 at a ceremony in the Royal Courts of Justice.


A Queen’s University alumni, she was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 1994, took silk in 2006 and was appointed a High Court Judge in 2015. She has served as vice chair of the Bar of Northern Ireland, Chair of the Young Bar, Chair of the Family Bar Association and Chair of the Bar Charity Committee.

She was Presiding Coroner for Northern Ireland for three years from September 2017.

Issue: 7938 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , In Court
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NEWS
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After Woodcock confirmed no general duty to warn, debate turns to the criminal law. Writing in NLJ this week, Charles Davey of The Barrister Group urges revival of misprision or a modern equivalent
Family courts are tightening control of expert evidence. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Chris Pamplin says there is ‘no automatic right’ to call experts; attendance must be ‘necessary in the interests of justice’ under FPR Pt 25
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