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Peter Charleton (Peter Mitchel Andrew Charleton) was born on 11 April, 1956 in Churchtown, Dublin, Ireland, is an Irish judge. Discover Peter Charleton's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?
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Peter Mitchel Andrew Charleton |
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67 years old |
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Aries |
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11 April 1956 |
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11 April |
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Churchtown, Dublin, Ireland |
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Ireland
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Peter Charleton Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Peter Charleton's Wife?
His wife is Fiona Charleton (m. 1988)
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Fiona Charleton (m. 1988) |
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Peter Charleton Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Peter Charleton worth at the age of 67 years old? Peter Charleton’s income source is mostly from being a successful . He is from Ireland. We have estimated Peter Charleton's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Peter Mitchel Andrew Charleton (born 11 April 1956 ) is an Irish judge who has served as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland since June 2014.
He was the Auditor of the College Historical Society between 1977 and 1978.
He was in the final of the Irish Times Debate in 1977 and won the Benchers' Trophy for legal debate with Alex Schuster in 1979.
As auditor of the CHS, his inaugural address was on the subject of "Republicanism Reviewed" and featured contributions from Conor Cruise O'Brien, John A. Murphy, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Mairéad Corrigan, Noël Browne and John Brooke, 2nd Viscount Brookeborough.
He was called to the Bar in 1979, and became a senior counsel in 1995.
He lectured in the King's Inns in the law of tort between 1982 and 1984, Trinity College Dublin in criminal law between 1986 and 1988, Fordham University, The University of Washington, and China University of Political Science and Law.
He is also an adjunct professor of criminal law and criminology at University of Galway and regularly delivers lectures there.
He was the first senior counsel to appear in an Irish court without a wig, following the enactment of the Courts and Court Officers Act 1995.
He was appointed to the Advisory Group on Criminal Law and Procedure in 1996 by Minister for Justice Nora Owen.
His legal practice included appearing for the Director of Public Prosecutions in criminal trials.
Charleton also represented clients as a criminal defence barrister and in family law, judicial review and commercial law cases.
He represented Christy Burke in a defamation action in 1996 and Eircom in a case related to the publication of a phone sex line in their telephone directory.
He defended Ritchie Neville and Jason "J" Brown of the boyband 5ive following charges arising out of an altercation in Temple Bar, Dublin in 2001.
He worked as senior counsel for the Morris Tribunal into allegations of corruption in the Donegal division of the Garda Síochána.
He left the Morris Tribunal two years before it finished to take up an appointment to the High Court.
Charleton has also represented the State in cases before the European Court of Justice.
He is the author of a number books on criminal law and has also published on family and constitutional law, copyright, extradition and judicial review.
He previously served as a Judge of the High Court from 2006 to 2014.
He was educated at St Mary's College, Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and King's Inns.
He was appointed as a Judge of the High Court in December 2006, and assigned to the Commercial Court from 2010.
He was Chairman of the National Archives of Ireland Advisory Council from 2011 to 2016, an unpaid position.
In 2014 he criticised a firm of stockbrokers for taking risks with the personal fortune of a person with special needs.
As a judge of the Central Criminal Court, in a case called The People (DPP) v WD he introduced sentencing bands for rape cases and followed this up with supervision of the Judicial Researchers Office to produce sentencing guidelines for a range of serious indictable crime.
He has also acted as an ad hoc judge of the European Court of Human Rights.
He was nominated to the Supreme Court in June 2014 and appointed by President Michael D. Higgins in July 2014.
Charleton has written judgments for the Supreme Court on key aspects of criminal law.
In 2016, he outlined the nature of consent in law in the context of sexual offences.
He developed the substance of Irish common law defences of duress and provocation in the Gleeson and McNamara cases respectively, in both instances deploying tests using mixed standards of objective and subjective elements.
In 2017, he was appointed sole member of the Disclosures Tribunal investigation into allegations of Garda Síochána malpractice.
He published two substantive reports as chair of the Tribunal.
The portion of the inquiry presided over by Charleton ran from February 2017 until October 2018.
In his findings from the inquiry, he found that a Garda sergeant, Maurice McCabe, had been subject to a smear campaign by the Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan and a Garda press officer, but not from subsequent Commissioner Nóirín O'Sullivan and other Gardaí.
He was also critical of the Child and Family Agency in handling claims of rape.
In his concluding remarks on his findings, he criticised the Gardaí and the Child and Family Agency for not having organisational mentalities of learning from their errors.
He was particularly critical of the credibility of evidence given by several senior members of the police force.
Drew Harris, O'Sullivan's successor as commissioner, said on its publication that the report was "difficult reading for the organisation" and the Gardaí would move to have "an open and inclusive culture".
Subsequently, he criticised the manner in which tribunals of inquiry are conducted in Ireland.