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Ireland

An Chúirt Uachtarach na hÉireann (Irish)

 

The Hon. Mr. Justice Frank Clarke

Chief Justice (i.e. the President of the Supreme Court of Ireland)

Member of the Council of State of Ireland

Member of the Presidential Commission

Chairperson of the Board of the Courts Service of Ireland

 

Chief Justice since: 2017

Justice of the Supreme Court since: 2012

 

Career before being a judge of the Supreme Court:

1973-2004 Barrister-at-Law

1978-1985 Professor of Law, the Honorable Society of King’s Inns

1985 Appointed Senior Counsel

1993-1995 Chair of the Bar Council

1994 Elected Bencher of the Honorable Society of King’s Inns

1194 Made an honorary Member of the Canadian Bar Association

1999-2004 Chair of the Council of King’s Inns

1997-2004 Member of the Council of International Bar Associations

1998-2002 Chair, Forum for Barristers and Advocates

2002 Admitted as an honorary member of the Australian Bar Association

2004 Appointed judge of the High Court

2010 Judge in residence at Griffith College Dublin

2012 Appointed judge of the Supreme Court

2012 Adjunct Professor of Law School, Trinity College Dublin

2013 Representative of the Supreme Court of Ireland on ACA-Europe

2013 Adjunct Professor of University College Cork

2017 Griffith College Distinguished Fellowship Award

2018 Appointed a member of the panel provided for in Article 255 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union