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About Donnell Deeny
- Sir Donnell Justin Patrick Deeny (born 25 April 1950), styled as The Rt Hon Lord Justice Deeny, is a member of the Court of Appeal of Northern Ireland. Born in Lurgan, Deeny was educated at Clongowes Wood College, Trinity College, Dublin and Queen's University, Belfast.
- During his time in Trinity College he acted as Auditor of the College Historical Society, the oldest undergraduate debating society in the world.
- He was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 1974 and took silk in March 1989.
- He was also called to the Bar in the Republic of Ireland (SC 1996), and in England (as a bencher in the Middle Temple).
- Deeny was appointed a High Court Judge on 6 September 2004, and was knighted some months afterwards.
- He was appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal in September 2017 and a Privy Councillor in October 2017.He was appointed in 2000 to the UK Government's Spoliation Advisory Panel, which advises on claims relating to cultural objects lost during the Nazi era.
- He served two further terms before becoming chairman of the Panel in April 2010.Deeny had served as an Alliance Party Councillor on Belfast City Council in 1981-85, and was High Sheriff of Belfast in 1983.Deeny was a member of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland in 1991-94, and its chairman 1994-98.
- In 1986 he became President of the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society.He was elected as the 56th Pro-Chancellor of the University of Dublin in 2014.
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