John Gillen

Sir John Gillen, PC (born 18 November 1947 ), previously known as The Rt Hon Lord Justice Gillen, and before that as Mr Justice Gillen, is a Privy Councillor and was one of the Lords Justices of Appeal of Northern Ireland, from September 2014-November 2017.

Education Gillen attended Cregagh Primary School, then the Methodist College, Belfast, and Queen's College, Oxford.

Career He was called to the bar in 1970 and became Queen's Counsel in 1983.

In 2016, an off-duty police officer who was representing himself in a house repossession case against Santander that Gillen was hearing tried to arrest him. The officer was himself arrested, on suspicion of common assault, but was released without charge.

From 2015 to 2017, he conducted a review of Civil and Family Justice in Northern Ireland.

Personal life Gillan is married and has two daughters.