The Supreme Court of New Zealand is the highest court and the court of last resort of New Zealand. It formally came into being on 1 January 2004 and sat for the first time on 1 July 2004. It replaced the right of appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council,based in London. It was created with the passing of the Supreme Court Act 2003,on 15 October 2003. At the time,the creation of the Supreme Court and the abolition of appeals to the Privy Council were controversial constitutional changes in New Zealand. The Supreme Court Act 2003 was repealed on 1 March 2017 and superseded by the Senior Courts Act 2016.
Sir Michael Hardie Boys,was a New Zealand lawyer,judge and jurist who served as the 17th Governor-General of New Zealand,in office from 1996 to 2001.
Sir Kenneth James Keith is a New Zealand judge. He was elected to the International Court of Justice in November 2005,serving a nine-year term during the years 2006 through 2015.
Sir Thomas Munro Gault was a New Zealand jurist. He was a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Zealand and a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom as well as a non-permanent judge of the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong. He was also a justice of the Supreme Court of Fiji.
Sir Edmund Walter Thomas,widely known as Ted Thomas,is a New Zealand jurist. He is a retired judge of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand and a former acting judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
Dame Susan Gwynfa Mary Glazebrook is a judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
Sir John Steele Henry is a New Zealand jurist and former Court of Appeal judge,and member of the well-known Henry family.
Dame Judith Marjorie Potter is a former High Court judge in New Zealand.
Sir Erima Harvey Northcroft was a New Zealand lawyer,judge,and military leader. His papers from the Tokyo War Crimes Trial are held by the University of Canterbury.
Sir William Gillow Gibbes Austen Young was a Supreme Court Judge,former President of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand,and,briefly,a judge of the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts. He was appointed to the Supreme Court by Attorney-General Chris Finlayson in June 2010,taking effect from 1 July.
Sir Noel Crossley Anderson was a New Zealand judge who was President of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand from 2004 to 2006,before being elevated to the Supreme Court. He left office in 2008.
Sir John Joseph McGrath was a judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand,serving in that role from 2005 until 2015. He was also a judge of the Court of Appeal from 2000 to 2005,and the Solicitor-General of New Zealand from 1989 to 2000.
Sir Terence Arnold is a judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. He was the Solicitor-General of New Zealand from 2000,before being made a judge of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand in 2006. He was elevated to the Supreme Court on 11 June 2013.
Sir Graham Ken Panckhurst is a retired New Zealand High Court judge. He chaired the Royal Commission into the Pike River Mine disaster.
Sir Peter Blanchard is a former judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
Sir Robert Stanley Chambers was a judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
Sir Andrew Patrick Charles Tipping is a New Zealand jurist who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Zealand from 2004 until his retirement in 2012. He is New Zealand's longest-serving judge,serving on the bench for 25 years. Tipping was also a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. His tenure as a jurist has been widely acclaimed and his contributions to the shaping of New Zealand law are considered to be substantial and permanent.
The Honourable or The Honorable is an honorific style that is used as a prefix before the names or titles of certain people,usually with official governmental or diplomatic positions.
Dame Ellen Dolour France is a New Zealand jurist. She is currently a justice of the Supreme Court,and was previously the president of the Court of Appeal.
Sir Alan Clifford Perry was a New Zealand lawyer and judge. He served as a judge of the Supreme Court from 1962 to 1979. However,he is perhaps best remembered for taking the case of Lee v Lee's Air Farming Ltd to the Privy Council in 1960,and successfully arguing for the unanimous decision of the Court of Appeal to be overturned.
