The Honourable Sir
Terence Arnold
KNZM KC
Arnold in 2016
Justice of the Supreme Court
In office
11 June 2013 – 12 April 2017
Preceded byRobert Chambers
Solicitor-General of New Zealand
In office
2000–2006
Prime MinisterHelen Clark
Preceded byJohn McGrath
Succeeded byDr David Collins
Personal details
Born1947 (age 76–77)

Sir Terence Arnold KNZM KC (born 1947) 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.

Career

Arnold graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with a B.A. and LL.M. and New York University with an LL.M. He taught criminal law at Victoria University of Wellington as well as at several Canadian universities, including Dalhousie University and the University of Calgary. He taught at different law schools of New Zealand and Canada in the years between 1970 and 1982. Later, in 1986, he became a monitoring and advising member for the Bill of Rights.[1] He was a partner of Chapman Tripp Sheffield Young between 1985 and 1994. He became a barrister sole in 1994 and shortly thereafter, was appointed Queen's Counsel. He is one of the founders of the Law and Economics Association of New Zealand and became its president for a year in 1996. He also played a noticeable part in the establishment of New Zealand Law Society Litigation Skills Programme and the Civil Litigation Skills Programme.[1] He was Solicitor-General between 2000 and 2006. He was appointed a judge of the High Court and the Court of Appeal in May 2006. He was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court on 11 June 2013. On 12 April 2017, he retired from the permanent bench of the Supreme Court, having reached 70 years of age,[2] but sits as a retired judge when required.[3]

In the 2016 New Year Honours, Arnold was appointed a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the judiciary.[4]

Arnold was appointed, alongside former Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer, to the 2018 inquiry into the NZSAS murder of at least six civilians and the wounding of fifteen more in Operation Burnham. The inquiry's report found the attack on the villagers was justified.[5]

In December 2022 he was appointed to the Cook Islands Court of Appeal.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 "New Year Honours 2016 – Citations for Knight Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit". New Year Honours 2016 – Citations for Knight Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Justice Arnold retiring from Supreme Court". New Zealand Law Society. 15 February 2017. Archived from the original on 23 April 2017. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  3. ↑ "Judges – The Honourable Justice Arnold". Courts of New Zealand – courtsofnz.govt.nz. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
  4. ↑ "New Year honours list 2016". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  5. ↑ "Operation Burnham report: NZDF 'deeply sorry' for misleading ministers and public". Radio New Zealand. 31 July 2020. Archived from the original on 31 July 2020. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  6. ↑ "Media Release: Judicial Appointments". Ministry of Justice. 6 December 2022. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  • kiwisfirst.co.nz Profile
  • Press Release from Hon. Michael Cullen, Attorney General, "Appointment of Terence Arnold QC as Judge of the High Court and Court of Appeal", May 4, 2006.
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