Aiden O'Brien Quinn

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James Aiden O'Brien Quinn,

the Seychelles, Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Botswana, and the United Kingdom
.

Biography

The son of William Patrick Quinn, Commissioner of the Garda Síochána and Helen Mary (née Walshe), O'Brien Quinn was educated at Presentation College, Bray and University College, Dublin, where he took a BA and LLB (Hons). From 1949 to 1953, he worked for the National City Bank, Dublin.

Called to the

English Bar by the Inner Temple
.

From 1972 to 1976, O'Brien Quinn was

Chief Justice of the Seychelles from 1976 to 1977, when he was expelled from the country during the 1977 Seychelles coup d'état.[2]

After he was expelled from the Seychelles, O'Brien Quinn became

Chief Justice of the Gilbert Islands (Kiribati from 1979), serving from 1977 to 1981, where he set up a new courts system. He was a member of the Council of State from 1979 to 1981. He was also a Judge of the High Court of Solomon Islands from 1977 to 1979. In 1981, he served as special prosecutor in the Falkland Islands.[3]

O'Brien Quinn became

Immigration Appeal Tribunal from 1990 to 1993, vice-president of the Immigration Appeal Tribunal from 1996 to 2004, and Member of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission
from 1998 to 2002.

O'Brien Quinn was made a Chevalier of the Ordre de la Valeur of the Republic of Cameroon in 1967, and received the Kiribati Independence Medal in 1979.[3]

Personal life

Quinn married Christel Tyner in 1960; they had two sons and a daughter.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ "Admitted to Inner Bar". Wicklow People. 24 August 1973. p. 3.
  2. ^ "Police threatened by rebels". The Guardian. 7 June 1977. p. 16.
  3. ^ a b "Chief Justices of Kiribati". Judiciary Kiribati. 13 June 2022.