Hubert Wine
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Judge 'Hubert C. Wine' is a former solicitor, family court judge and prominent member of the Irish Jewish community who served as the chairman of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland for fourteen years.
He was educated at the Dublin Talmud Torah and Trinity College, Dublin, and was called to the bar. His family were antique dealers in Dublin. In his younger days he was an international table-tennis player, and won Irish singles and doubles championships.
He worked alongside the future Labour party TD and government minister Mervyn Taylor
with Herman Good Solicitors.
In 1976 he was appointed a District Judge in Dublin, he retired from the bench in 1992. In 1989 in the Dun Laoire District Court, he high-lighted the situation caused by cutbacks where by the health board was not providing suitable detention facilities for juvenile offenders by refusing to send a 13-year-old girl to detention in an adult facility.
He was educated at the Dublin Talmud Torah and Trinity College, Dublin, and was called to the bar. His family were antique dealers in Dublin. In his younger days he was an international table-tennis player, and won Irish singles and doubles championships.
He worked alongside the future Labour party TD and government minister Mervyn Taylor
Mervyn Taylor
Mervyn Taylor is a former Irish Labour Party politician and government minister.He was born to a Jewish family in Dublin. He was educated at Zion School, Wesley College Dublin and at Trinity College Dublin where he qualified as a solicitor.He worked for Herman Good Solicitors alongside Herman Good...
with Herman Good Solicitors.
In 1976 he was appointed a District Judge in Dublin, he retired from the bench in 1992. In 1989 in the Dun Laoire District Court, he high-lighted the situation caused by cutbacks where by the health board was not providing suitable detention facilities for juvenile offenders by refusing to send a 13-year-old girl to detention in an adult facility.