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Donnell Deeny

Field	Value
name	Donnell Deeny
office	High Sheriff of Belfast
term_start	January 1983
term_end	January 1984
predecessor	Alfie Ferguson
successor	Pauline Whitley
office1	Member of
Belfast City Council
constituency1	Belfast Area A
term_start1	20 May 1981
term_end1	15 May 1985
predecessor1	Basil Glass
successor1	District abolished
birth_date
birth_place	Lurgan, Northern Ireland
party	Alliance

Belfast City Council Sir Donnell Justin Patrick Deeny , KC, SC (born 25 April 1950), styled as the Rt Hon Sir Donnell Deeny, is a mediator and arbitrator (ACIArb) and a former member of the Court of Appeal of Northern Ireland. Sir Donnell is also member of the Court of Arbitration for Art at The Hague.

Education

Born in Lurgan, Northern Ireland, Deeny was educated at Clongowes Wood College, Trinity College Dublin,

Career

Deeny was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 1974 and took silk in March 1989. He was also called to the Bar of Ireland (Senior Counsel 1996), and to the Bar of England and Wales (as a bencher in the Middle Temple).

He was appointed in 2000 to the British 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 2012.{{cite web |url=http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/media_releases/2195.aspx/ |archive-date=5 June 2008|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080605051150/http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/media_releases/2195.aspx/ |title=David Lammy announces reappointment of six members of Spoliation Panel (Media Release 049/07)|date=13 April 2007 |publisher=Department of Culture, Media, and Sport, UK.gov}}

Deeny had served as an Alliance Party Councillor on Belfast City Council in 1981–85, and was High Sheriff of Belfast in 1983, the first Catholic to hold office in the City since the Partition of Ireland.

Deeny was a member of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland in 1991–94, and its chairman 1994–98. He was President of the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society in 2006 to 2017; and president of the Irish Legal History Society in 2015- 2018; and the founding chairman, Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust in 1997–2008. He is a Deputy Lieutenant for the City of Belfast and an Honorary Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute.

He was elected as the 56th Pro-Chancellor of the University of Dublin in 2014.

He also was awarded an Honorary Degree as Doctor of Laws for his exceptional public service by Queen's University Belfast in 2022.

References

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References

(25 April 2012). "Birthdays today". The Telegraph.
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 graduated in 1973. https://www.irishlegal.com/articles/sir-donnell-deeny-receives-trinity-honorary-degree
[https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:d6xAGQcXFxIJ:www.sls.qub.ac.uk/courses/brochures_courses/219.pdf+&hl=ga&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjejLqZSDmTaBZhPSDQuybLxjd2_8Bvk6-n1gotPzSWSHTvILPFLEdYTr3X5EBqmpaYEJbXaxq35SBLqvDu4shUruCnDAqlE62fJAccBO66BlwPG9tOn1wvgZiCX-JsIFop6cXR&sig=AHIEtbQ_k-h5MdyuVxPHeJkWC5g_uHvorQ Biography in SLS course prospectus]
"Orders Approved at the Privy Council for 11 October 2017". Privy Council Office.
[http://www.lootedart.com/MFEU4P88744_print;Y LootedArt.com description of Spoliation Advisory Panel]
He retired from this role in 2025 and was awarded an honorary degree from the University in recognition of his service and distinguished legal career. The citation noted among other attributes "we cannot imagine anyone who would provide better judgement, legal and ethical expertise than this superb champion of justice....and formidable orator." https://www.irishlegal.com/articles/sir-donnell-deeny-receives-trinity-honorary-degree
https://www.qub.ac.uk/home/Graduation/News/2022/Former-Queens-Judge-Residence-honoured.html
(20 December 2004). "Knighthood Conferred". The National Archives.

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