# Hubert Wine

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'''Hubert C. Wine'''  (3 April 1922 – 15 November 2011) was an Irish [solicitor](/source/solicitor), District Court judge, athlete and prominent member of the [Irish Jewish community](/source/Irish_Jewish_community) who served as the chairman of the [Jewish Representative Council of Ireland](/source/Jewish_Representative_Council_of_Ireland) for fourteen years.<ref>{{cite web |title=Judge believed in upholding rights of disadvantaged and marginalised |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/obituaries/2011/1126/1224308175658.html |website=The Irish Times |access-date=15 August 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

Wine was educated at the Dublin [Talmud Torah](/source/Talmud_Torah) and [Trinity College, Dublin](/source/Trinity_College%2C_Dublin), and was called to the bar. His family were antique dealers in Dublin. In his youth, Wine was an international [table-tennis](/source/Table_tennis) player, and won Irish singles and doubles championships.<ref name="ajr">[http://www.ajr.org.uk/journalpdf/1976_september.pdf Personna New Dublin Judge] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720062937/http://www.ajr.org.uk/journalpdf/1976_september.pdf |date=20 July 2011 }} AJR INFORMATION September 1976</ref>
He worked alongside [Mervyn Taylor](/source/Mervyn_Taylor) with Herman Good Solicitors.<ref>Jews in twentieth-century Ireland: refugees, anti-semitism and the Holocaust By Dermot Keogh</ref>

In 1976 Wine was appointed a District Judge in [Dublin](/source/Dublin).<ref name="ajr" /> In 1989 in the [Dun Laoghaire](/source/D%C3%BAn_Laoghaire) District Court, he highlighted the situation caused by cutbacks whereby the health board was not providing suitable detention facilities for [juvenile offender](/source/juvenile_offender)s by refusing to send a 13-year-old girl to detention in an adult facility.<ref>[http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/old-cutbacks-take-a-long--time-to-heal-371977.html Old Cutbacks take a long time to heal] By KIERAN McGRATH, Irish Independent.Tuesday July 11, 2000</ref>

Wine retired from the bench in 1992.  He died in 2011.

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