Joseph Triay

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title: "Joseph Triay" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1931-births", "2012-deaths", "members-of-the-middle-temple", "20th-century-gibraltarian-lawyers", "gibraltarian-king's-counsel", "20th-century-king's-counsel", "party-for-the-autonomy-of-gibraltar-politicians"] description: "Gibraltarian lawyer and politician" topic_path: "law" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Triay" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Gibraltarian lawyer and politician ::

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Field	Value
name	Joseph Triay
honorific_suffix	QC
image	J.E. Triay.jpg
caption	Joseph Triay at his offices in Irish Town
birth_name	Joseph Emmanuel Triay
birth_date	5 October 1931
birth_place	Gibraltar
death_date	3 July 2012 (aged 80)
death_place	Gibraltar
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other_names	J.E. Triay
Jose Manuel Triay
alma_mater	Middle Temple
occupation	Barrister
Politician
organization	Triay & Triay
height
criminal_charge
spouse	Patricia
parents	S.P. Triay QC
relatives	Peter Caruana (son-in-law)
website
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Joseph Triay's daughter Cristina is married to Peter Caruana, former Chief Minister of Gibraltar.

Education and legal career

Son to S.P. Triay QC, J.E. was born in Gibraltar in October 1931, and educated at an English boarding school. He was called to the Middle Temple and the bar in Gibraltar in 1952 and became Queen's Counsel in 1982. Following the sudden death of his father, J.E. and his brother, J.J. inherited their father's law firm later to become Triay & Triay.

Political career and controversy

At the height of Franco's campaign against Gibraltar in his attempt to claim its sovereignty during the 1960s, J.E. was involved in great controversy when he, as one of the group calling themselves the Doves advocated a political settlement with Spain and made contact with the Spanish Government of the time. The Gibraltarian public reaction was to revolt, bringing about the worst and most violent riot in its recent history. The Triay & Triay chambers were ransacked and J.E. suffered a petrol bomb attack to his home shortly after the publication of a letter advocating such political settlement. His family were inside while the attack took place but no-one was harmed. His yacht, the Patricia E, was the subject of an arson attack a few months later.

Triay was involved in local politics during the 1970s. He stood for the 1976 election, as an independent, and in the 1980 election, as leader of the Party for the Autonomy of Gibraltar. He later concentrated on his law practice and never spoke again publicly about politics.

Death

Triay died in July 2012 aged 80.

References

References

1. Jesús Salgado (coord.). (1996). "Informe sobre Gibraltar (''Report on Gibraltar'')". INCIPE (Instituto de Cuestiones Internacionales y Política Exterior).
2. Sharrock, David. (22 March 2002). "Are we going to fight the Armada again?". [[The Daily Telegraph]].
3. Searle, Dominique. (4 July 2012). "Obituary: J.E. Triay QC". [[Gibraltar Chronicle]].
4. Tremlett, Giles. (7 November 2002). "Rock's voters signal rejection of Spanish deal". Special Report. Gibraltar.
5. (1 October 1976). "No triunfaron en Gibraltar los partidarios del acercamiento a España". [[ABC (Spain).
6. (2 August 1980). "Victoria de Sir Joshua Hassan en las elecciones de Gibraltar". [[ABC (Spain).
7. (3 July 2012). "Two prominent barristers die". [[Panorama (Gibraltar).
8. "General News Stories". Gibnews.net.

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