Mike Kerruish
Appearance
John Michael Kerruish QC (2 November 1948[1] – 14 July 2010) was the First Deemster and Clerk of the Rolls on the Isle of Man.
He also acted as Deputy Governor and as the Lieutenant Governor for a period of about a month in 2005. Formerly he was the Second Deemster and prior to that Attorney General and thus sat in the Legislative Council.
He died on July 14, 2010 at the age of 61.[2]
Deemster Kerruish Award
The Deemster Kerruish Award was created two days after Kerruis's death. This award is to be presented ‘to the young lawyer who has shown most endeavour and progress in the preceding year’[3].