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To be Knights Companion of the said Order.
New Year
Honours List 2016
For services to the judiciary.
The Honourable Justice Terence Arnold was
appointed a Supreme Court Judge in June 2013,
having previously been a Judge of the High Court
and Court of Appeal since 2006.
Terence was Solicitor-General and Chief
Executive of the Crown Law Office from 2000
to 2006. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel
in 1997. He was a partner at Chapman Tripp
Sheffield Young from 1985 to 1994. From 1970
to 1982 he taught at law schools in New Zealand
and Canada, developing a particular interest in
clinical legal education.
From 1986 to 1988 he was member of the Bill of
Rights Monitoring Group advising the Minister
of Justice on the establishment of the Bill of
Rights. He was a founding member of the Law
and Economics Association of New Zealand,
was its president from 1996 to 1997 and is
presently its patron. He was closely involved
in the establishment of the New Zealand Law
Society Litigation Skills Programme and the
Civil Litigation Skills Programme. He has given
seminars and papers for the New Zealand Law
Society and other professional bodies. He was a
member of the Market Surveillance Committee
of the New Zealand Electricity Market from 1996
to 2000, and was appointed to two standing
committees of the Market Surveillance Panel of
the New Zealand Stock Exchange.
Terence is a trustee of the Douglas Wilson
Advocacy Scholarship Trust.
The Honourable Terence Arnold (6983)