SAMRA, DAVID

SAMRA, DAVID
SAMRA, DAVID (d. 1960), Iraqi jurist. After practicing law, he was appointed a judge to the mosul court of appeals in 1908. The following year he was appointed to a similar post in syria . Returning to baghdad , he resumed his legal practice, maintaining it until after the British conquest of iraq , when he was reappointed to the bench. In 1919 he became a judge on the Baghdad court of appeals and in 1923 deputy president of the court, the highest rank held by an Iraqi (the president of the court being British). From 1921 until his death he also served as a lecturer at the law school in Baghdad. (Haim J. Cohen)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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