Sir Paul Richard Maguire PC (born 10 November 1952), styled The Rt.
Maguire unsuccessfully stood for election to Belfast City Council for the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland in 1981.
[3] In the mid-1980s, Maguire left politics and focused on his legal career, rising to become Queen's Counsel in 2006,[4] and representing the Government in a number of high-profile cases.
[5] In 2010, he was appointed to head an inquiry into Peter Robinson's knowledge of his wife's improper financial affairs.
At his High Court swearing in ceremony in May 2012 the Lord Chief Justice, Sir Declan Morgan, said that Mr. Justice Maguire had a distinguished career at the Bar and as senior Crown Counsel and that he would be " an invaluable and honourable addition to our High Court bench" .