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Sat 11 Nov 2008Dublin-born lawyer who became first white minister in independent Zambia
James Skinner QC:JAMES SKINNER QC, who has died aged 85, was a former chief justice of Zambia. Appointed to the position in March 1969, he resigned in September of that year after clashing with president Kenneth Kaunda over the freeing of two Portuguese soldiers who had been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for illegally entering Zambia.
The two men were freed by another High Court judge - an Englishman - who referred to the offences as "trivial".
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