Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer (20 June 1949 – 11 November 2009) was a Spanish jurist,

judge A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a panel of judges. A judge hears all the witnesses and any other evidence presented by the barristers or solicitors of the case, assesses the credibility an ...

at the Consejo General del Poder Judicial (General Council of the Judiciary) and the head of the Private Office of the President of the Consejo General del Poder Judicial. He also served as an ad hoc judge to the

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and a judge at the Tribunal Supremo (Supreme Court) from 1996. He was an Advocate General at the

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from January 1995 until his death in November 2009. Ruiz-Jarabo was born in Madrid; he was unmarried with no children; he died in Luxembourg, aged 60.Un gran maestro de Derecho europeo
El Mundo, November 13, 2009.

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