Patrick Coghlin
Sir Patrick Coghlin PC (born 7 November 1945) is a retired member of the Court of Appeal of Northern Ireland.
Educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, Coghlin was called to the Bar in Northern Ireland in 1970; England and Wales (Gray's Inn) in 1975; and Ireland and New South Wales, Australia in 1993. He became Junior Crown Counsel in 1983, serving until 1985, when he was made a Queen's Counsel. He served as a deputy County Court judge from 1983 to 1994, and as Senior Crown Counsel for Northern Ireland 1993–97. He was appointed a judge of the High Court of Justice of Northern Ireland on 7 April 1997,[1] receiving the customary knighthood.
He was promoted to be a Lord Justice of Appeal of Northern Ireland on 5 September 2008.[2] That year, he was also appointed to a five-year term as a judicial member of the Northern Ireland Judicial Appointments Commission. In consequence of his promotion, he was appointed to the Privy Council in 2009.[3] He retired in 2015.
Coghlin was appointed President of the Lands Tribunal for Northern Ireland in 1999, and has been a member of the Council of the Association of European Competition Law Judges since 2002. He was elected an honorary bencher of Gray's Inn in 2000.[4]
He served in the following roles:
- Vice-chairman Mental Health Review Tribunal for Northern Ireland, 1986 to 1997
- Member of Northern Ireland's Law Reform Advisory Committee, 1989 to 1993
- Vice-President of the Value Added Tax Tribunal for Northern Ireland, 1990 to 1993
- Chairman of the Executive Council of the Bar of Northern Ireland, 1991 to 1993
- Deputy Chair of the Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland, 1999-2002
References
- ↑ The Belfast Gazette: no. 5816. p. 331. 11 April 1997.
- ↑ The Belfast Gazette: no. 7014. p. 1089. 12 September 2008.
- ↑ "Orders for 11 February 2004". Privy Council Office.
- ↑ "The Rt Hon Lord Justice Coghlin". Debrett's People of Today. Retrieved 26 August 2012.