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… fastest time is the winner. Show hunter Show hunter is a judged event. Judges look for a horse that shows forward-going, …
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Part of story: Equestrianism and horse sports
… court sittings, justices of the peace, magistrates and judges on a fair basis. Like his father, Conolly felt … petition was organised to bring in mandatory retirement for judges at age 80. Conolly resigned from the Bench on 9 …
Type: Biography
… by Lord Stanley, secretary of state for the colonies, as judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand for the southern … Plymouth and later Christchurch. He was the first puisne judge in New Zealand. With his wife, whose health was of … The Times of London. In 1862 he was appointed a temporary judge in the Supreme Court of Victoria. In early 1864, in …
Type: Biography
… reputation as an internationalist. Smith’s appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand on 26 April 1928 … Smith quickly proved himself to be an excellent judge: patient, considerate, thoughtful and efficient. He … with judicial independence; the majority of his fellow judges thought otherwise. He was also in a minority in his …
Type: Biography
… Bay of Plenty district from 1873 to 1876. His criticism of Judge John Rogan and the workings of the Native Land Court … He had also remained in Tauranga while Fenton insisted that judges base themselves in Auckland and move around the …
Type: Biography
… He was the fifth child of Henry Samuel Chapman, puisne judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, and his wife, … where he joined his father who had, since 1864, been puisne judge for Otago and Southland. Chapman was admitted to the … he was one of the most scholarly of the Supreme Court judges of the time, an essentially cautious jurist whose …
Type: Biography
… made Queen's counsel and on 29 June 1953 he was appointed judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. After serving on provincial courts he became senior Auckland judge. On 30 August 1962 he was elevated to the Court of … and he was to remember his time with fellow Appeal judges Alfred North and Thaddeus McCarthy as among the …
Type: Biography
… and two Pākehā members and was chaired by Supreme Court Judge C. W. Richmond. He wrote the main report, rejecting … of a block were entered into the court records. Chief Judge Fenton thought that the 1873 Act was intended ‘to do …
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Part of story: Te tango whenua – Māori land alienation
… and limited experience as a barrister, was one of three new judges appointed to the Supreme Court of New Zealand, the … it prudent on the second occasion to consult his fellow judges. A majority agreed with him. Williams's admirers held …
Type: Biography
… were to have two children. In 1916 Hugh Ayson was appointed judge of the Native Land Court and the High Court of the Cook Islands at Rarotonga. In 1922 he became chief judge of both these institutions as well as resident …
Type: Biography
… of inquiry could be set up for. A 1905 amendment empowered judges appointed as commissioners to exercise the powers available to them as judges of the Supreme Court. All this legislation was …
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Part of story: Commissions of inquiry
… the court had to decide what those principles were. A judge in the case, Justice Robin Cooke, described the 1987 … itself be inconsistent with those principles’. 5 Another Judge in the case, Gordon Bisson, said it was ‘in accordance …
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… Marsden Collegiate School. In 1955 Wild was appointed judge advocate general of the army. Two years later he was … a flair for organisation; firm and incisive argument and judgement; a clear and logical mind; practical wisdom; and a … jurisdiction in administrative matters, in the grouping of judges in main centres to reflect population trends, in the …
Type: Biography
… appointment in 1919 at the age of 32 as commissioner and a judge of the Native Land Court. From 1919 to 1924 he was judge of the Aotea (Taranaki–Whanganui) district of the …
Type: Biography
… UN General Assembly and the Security Council to serve as a judge of the ICJ from 2006 to 2015. The International … Sierra Leone. New Zealander Silvia Cartwright served as a judge on the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of … Cambodia (from 2006), while David Baragwanath served as a judge on the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (from 2010, …
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Part of story: International law
… law derive from English ‘common law’, which is developed by judges through their decisions in cases. The common law … of Rights would have overridden any inconsistent law, with judges having the final say on whether a law was … did not proceed. There were deep worries about giving judges, rather than elected politicians, the power to decide …
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Part of story: Human rights
… officially known) did not require a hearing in front of a judge. Irreconcilable breakdown of marriage became the only … de facto couples, including same-sex couples. Family Court judges occasionally sent particularly complex cases to the …
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Part of story: Divorce and separation
… by the decisions of higher courts. The contribution of judges to creating law followed English precedents, the … prominent in the profession. The first chief justices and judges of New Zealand’s Supreme Court were English-born …
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Part of story: English
… argue their claims to lands before the courts, and Pākehā judges tried to interpret Māori custom. Judges often simplified and distorted those customs, and …
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Part of story: Take whenua – Māori land tenure
… with the public. Law commissioners The commissioners are judges or senior practising or academic lawyers (from the … of three or five years. The president must be a lawyer or a judge. Dealing with cyber harassment In December 2011 the …
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Part of story: Law