Sir Ian Lloyd McKay (7 March 1929 – 20 February 2014) was a Judge of the

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from 1991 to 1997. He became a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1992, and was president of the

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from 1997 to 2000. In the

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, he was appointed a

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, for services as a judge of the Court of Appeal and to the law. McKay died on 20 February 2014 in

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