Sir Denis Eustace Gilbert Malone (24 November 1922 – 2000) was a British jurist in the

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. He graduated from

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in 1941. He was commissioned a

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in the

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on 15 May 1945. He served as Solicitor-General of Barbados and then, in February 1961, was appointed a Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of British Honduras (today

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). He rose to

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in 1974, serving until 1977, when he was replaced by Albert Staine, the first native of Belize to hold that position. He was knighted in the

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. He went on to serve on the

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as a Justice from May 1979 to September 1983, Acting Chief Justice from September to December 1983, and Senior Justice from January 1984 to November 1989. Afterwards, he became

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; in 1991, he called for more court facilities to handle the rising backlog of civil and criminal cases. He was married to Diana. However, they had no children. His father had been Chief Justice of the Leeward islands and he had two brothers. He died in

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, in 2000.''England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007''

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