Sir Gilbert John Baptist Muria is aSolomon Islands judge and was the first indigenous Solomon Islander to beChief Justice of Solomon Islands.
Muria was born in 1953.[1] He was Chief Justice of Solomon islands from 1992 to 2003.[1] He then sat as a judge on the courts ofSierra Leone from 2003 to 2006, sitting on each of theHigh Court of Sierra Leone, theCourt of Appeal of Sierra Leone, and theSupreme Court of Sierra Leone. In 2007, theCommonwealth Secretariat facilitated Muria becoming a justice of theSupreme Court of Belize, where he remained until 2010. Muria wasChief Justice of the High Court of Kiribati from 2011 to 2020.[1]
Muria was appointed as the Chancellor of theSolomon Islands National University, which was officially launched on 18 April 2013.
In 2021, Muria was appointed as a judge of theHigh Court of Tuvalu.[2]
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