George Birmingham officially retires as Court of Appeal president

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Mr Justice George Birmingham officially retired on 3 August as president of the Court of Appeal and an ex officio judge of the Supreme Court. He had served as president since 2018.

At his final sitting in the Court of Appeal on 26 July, Chief Justice Donal O’Donnell and Attorney General Rossa Fanning led tributes. Birmingham said the most rewarding part of his judicial work was handling High Court cases involving the State’s most troubled teenagers, and that he hoped he had brought reality to the constitutional obligation to hear the child’s voice.