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8Aug

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Bangladesh, Profiles, Sad But True

AKM Fazlur Rahman, Judge

Justice AKM Fazlur Rahman, a retired judge of the High Court and former chairman of Administrative Appellate Tribunal, died from Covid-19. He was 75. He was undergoing treatment at Anwer Khan Modern Hospital in Dhaka. He left behind his wife, two daughters, a son and a host of well-wishers to mourn his death, Barrister Md Shakhawat Hossain Khan, husband of the elder daughter of Justice Rahman, told The Daily Star. He said Justice Rahman was buried at his family graveyard in Pankundo village under Dohar upazila, Dhaka. Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, Law Minister Anisul Huq, Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim and Attorney General AM Amin Uddin expressed deep shock at the death.

29Jun

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High Profilers, Nigeria, Profiles

Nasir Ajanah, judge

Nasir Ajana ‑ a Nigerian judge who served as the Chief Judge of Kogi State – passed away at a COVID isolation centre in Gwagwalada on 28 June 2020. Ajana was born in Okene Local Government Area in Kogi State to MJ Fari Ajanah. Ajana received early education at the Native Authority (Central) Primary School, Okene between 1962 and 1968. In 1969, he enrolled in Federal Government College, Keffi and graduated in 1973. In 1974, Ajana enrolled in the same college for a Higher School Certificate (HSC) finishing in 1975. Ajana earned LLB from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. He attended Nigerian Law School and was subsequently called to the Nigerian Bar as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. Ajana's legal career started at the Kwara State Ministry of ...

8May

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High Profilers, United States

Noach Dear, judge

Noach Dear an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served as a New York Supreme Court judge died on April 19, 2020, aged 66.[21] Dear was elected in 2008 as a civil court judge, in 2010 as an Acting Supreme Court Justice, and in 2015 for a 15-year term as a Permanent Justice on the New York Supreme Court. Prior to his appointment, he served as a member of the New York City Council from 1983 to 2001. He died during the COVID-19 pandemic due to complications of COVID-19. Dear was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Joan (Lipins) and Sidney Dear. As a child, Dear was in Eli Lipsker's Pirchei Agudath Israel Choir, and sang on the first New York Pirchei album Pirchei Sings אליך ה' אקרא. He attended Yeshiva Torah Vodaas. Dear received a B.S. from Brooklyn College (1975),...

4May

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High Profilers, India, Profiles

Ajay Kumar Tripathi, judge

Ajay Kumar Tripathi an Indian judge and former Judicial Member of Lokpal since 23 March 2019 died on 2 May 2020 due to COVID-19. Tripathi, who was also the Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High Court, had contracted COVID-19 and was placed on a ventilator in critical condition. Tripathi graduated in Economics with Hons. from Shri Ram College of Commerce and studied law from Delhi University. He started practice in 1981 at Patna High Court on service matter, Constitutional, Taxation, Excise and commercial litigations. Tripathi was the Standing Counsel for the Union of India and the Income Tax Department. He also appeared on behalf of the CBI and the Auditor and Comptroller General of India. He served as an Additional Advocate General for the State of Bihar. On 9 October 2006 he w...

6Apr

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High Profilers, Profiles, United Kingdom

John Laws, judge

Sir John Grant McKenzie Laws ‑ a Lord Justice of Appeal – succumbed to Covid-19 virus on 5 April 2020. He served from 1999 to 2016. He was the Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science at the University of Cambridge, and an Honorary Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge. Laws was born on 10 May 1945, the son of Dr Frederic Laws and his wife Dr Margaret Ross, née McKenzie, the daughter of the Congregational minister and academic John Grant McKenzie. He was educated at Durham Chorister School, and as a King's Scholar at Durham School. He studied at Exeter College, Oxford as a Senior Open Classical Scholar, receiving a First Class BA in 1967, and an MA in 1976. He became an Honorary Fellow of the College in 2000. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple ...

2Apr

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High Profilers, Profiles, United States

Kevin Duffy, judge

Kevin Thomas Duffy ‑ an American lawyer and United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York – died from Covid-19 on April 1, 2020. Born on January 10, 1933, in the Bronx, Duffy received a bachelor's degree from Fordham University in 1954 and a Bachelor of Laws from the Fordham University School of Law in 1958. He clerked for Judge J. Edward Lumbard at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1955–1958). Duffy served as an Assistant United States Attorney (1958–1959) and assistant chief of the Criminal Division (1959–1961) at the office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York before going into private practice as an associate with t...