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'''Sir Donnell Justin Patrick Deeny''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|PC|DL}}, [[King's Counsel|KC]], [[Senior Counsel|SC]] (born 25 April 1950),<ref name=Birth>{{cite web|title=Birthdays today|url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2012-4-25.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120425032742/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2012-4-25.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 25 April 2012 |publisher=The Telegraph|accessdate=22 April 2014|date=25 April 2012|quote=Mr Justice Deeny, 62 }}</ref> styled as '''the Rt Hon Sir Donnell Deeny''', is a mediator and arbitrator (ACIArb) and a former member of the [[Court of Appeal (Northern Ireland)|Court of Appeal of Northern Ireland]].

Sir Donnell is also member of the Court of Arbitration for Art at The Hague.

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. Donnell Deeny won the [[Irish Times Debate|Irish Times University Debating Trophy]] three times, the only person ever to do so. He was called to the [[Bar of Northern Ireland]] in 1974 and took silk in March 1989.<ref>[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]</ref> 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]]).<ref name=Debretts/> Deeny was appointed a High Court judge on 6 September 2004, and was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] some months afterwards.<ref>[http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20070101143339/http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page6809.asp Archived notice of knighthood conferral]</ref> He was appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal in September 2017<ref name="Gazette">{{Belfast Gazette|issue=7981 |date=15 September 2017 |page=666 |city=b}}</ref> and a [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Privy Councillor]] in October 2017.<ref name="11Oct17">{{cite web|url=https://privycouncil.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017-10-11-List-of-Business-Part-1.pdf|publisher=Privy Council Office|title=Orders for 11 October 2017}}</ref>