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… Appointment of judges Judicial appointments are made by the … justice had recommended the appointment of District Court judges, which represented the majority of judicial … Judges …
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Part of story: Judicial system
… New Zealand has a substantial judiciary of approximately 200 judges. It is the function of the judges to say what the law …
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Part of story: Law
… independence of courts and the financial security of judges. The independence of the judiciary is aimed at …
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Part of story: Judicial system
… justice, who presides, and between four and five permanent judges. The court’s membership is supplemented by acting …
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Part of story: Judicial system
… judiciary is independent of the executive and Parliament. Judges are appointed by the executive, from the ranks of … is determined independently by the Remuneration Authority. Judging the judges The Office of the Judicial Conduct …
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Part of story: Constitution
… with the law. The chief justice and a maximum of 55 judges comprise the High Court. The court is constituted by …
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Part of story: Judicial system
… governance of any country. The rule of law A famous English judge, Lord Bingham, wrote in 2010 that the core of the rule … law. Interpretation of law Parliament passes the law, but judges interpret it. The statutes (written laws) are …
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Part of story: Law
… In the late 20th century judges, the government and the Waitangi Tribunal began to …
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… empowered the governor to constitute courts and appoint judges to administer justice in the colony. In 1841 an … not as a permanently constituted court. Supreme Court judges were convened when required to sit as a Court of … the Supreme Court. The court sat as panels of Supreme Court judges, until the Judicature Amendment Act 1957 constituted …
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Part of story: Judicial system
… of double murder. The following year he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand at Christchurch. … He certainly was a quick worker and preferred to deliver judgement orally at the conclusion of argument rather than reserve his decision, as most other judges would have done. His work style enabled him to assist …
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… Owen Woodhouse was a distinguished judge and the architect of New Zealand’s no-fault accident … roles, with an emphasis on social justice. Where some judges favoured literal readings of statutes and close …
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… designed by Francis Dart Fenton, who became the first chief judge of the Native Land Court. In December 1864 a new … the entire colony was introduced. In each of these courts judgements were made by a presiding judge and two Māori …
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Part of story: Māori Land Court – Te Kōti Whenua
… gratitude, bore fruit in his appointment on 1 July 1903 as judge of the Native Land Court for the Tairawhiti district, … the department. It was not unknown for Native Land Court judges to hold simultaneously a multiplicity of public …
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… on radio 2YA. On 3 May 1935 he was appointed a temporary judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. The position was … with the system of the time he sat as an appellate judge on appeals against decisions of his fellow judges. Universally admired for his knowledge of the law and …
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… of two royal commissions. And he distinguished himself as a judge of both practical and scholarly bent. Sim was born at … the Supreme Court in 1911, and in 1913 he became resident judge for Otago and Southland – a fitting appointment for … to represent Taranaki Maori. Confiscations in Waikato were judged to have been excessive and an annual payment of …
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… important court In a 2004 speech Principal Family Court Judge Peter Boshier said, ‘Arguably, the Family Court is the … dealing with the aftermath of misery. A specialist group of judges and lawyers has grown up around the court. The system …
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Part of story: Law
… (which runs the day-to-day affairs of government). Judges are appointed by the governor-general . Convention denies the government the authority to direct judges and the Constitution Act spells out the limited …
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Part of story: Nation and government
… Gresson, was one of New Zealand’s first Supreme Court judges; Gresson’s brother became a prominent lawyer, and his … then comprising a panel of three or more Supreme Court judges. When a separate and permanent Court of Appeal was …
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… by Parliament. The offence cannot be manufactured by the judges using the methods of the common law. ‘A little … parliament’ In 1956 Patrick Devlin, a renowned English judge, stated ‘Each jury is a little parliament’. 1 He …
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Part of story: Law
… 1865 act, drafted by Francis Dart Fenton, the first chief judge of the court. This established a formal court of record, with salaried specialist judges who would be assisted by Māori assessors. Abolishing …
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Part of story: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation