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Lady Chief Justice

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