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Padraig O'Donoghue Dec. 2, 1921 - May 17, 2009 Known as Paud (pronounced Podge) Irish born lawyer, Castleknock College, University Collage Dublin, King's Inns Law School. Called to the bar 1946 and began his 40 year legal career for Nobel laureate Sean MacBride, a founder of Amnesty International.In 1953 joined the British Colonial Legal Service and was posted to East Africa Crown Council and rose to become independent Somalia's first attorney-general, 1960-1962.

In 1967 at the age of 46 he immigrated to Canada with his wife Joan and seven children. He was Yukon's first territorially appointed Legal Adviser and rose to became Deputy Minister of Justice until 1983. Paud O'donoghue was the President and Chair of Canada's Uniformity Law Conference 1980 and was instrumental in drafting the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He was then invited to the 1980 United Nations Convention in Geneva, Switzerland to present the charter. He received his Queens Councilor (QC) in 1975.

Padraig (Paud) O'Donoghue

The Province, Vancouver, British Columbia a Division of Canwest Publishing Inc. June 14, 2009, page C3 The Yukon News, May 25, 2009, page 3 David O'Donoghue 17:41, 25 January 2011 (UTC)Davidodonoghue