Rafael de Mendizábal Allende (10 August 1927 – 10 March 2023) was a Spanish judge.
He served as the first president of the Audiencia Nacional from 1977 to 1986, and again from 1991 to 1992 and was a judge of the Constitutional Court from 1992 to 2001.
[1] Since October 2015, he presided over the Commission of Arbitration, Complaints, and Journalism Ethics, which is under the Federation of Associations of Journalists of Spain (FAPE).
[2][3] De Mendizábal died on 10 March 2023, at the age of 95.
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