Patrick John Savage is a

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judge who served as Chief Justice of Niue from 2010 to 2018. Savage has previously served as a Crown Solicitor in the Bay of Plenty. In 1995 he was appointed as Judge of the Māori Land Court. He has also served on the

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. He was sworn in as a Judge of the High Court of Niue on 10 September 2007. and as Chief Justice on 10 September 2010, replacing

Heta Hingston Heta Kenneth Hingston (8 August 1938 – 9 August 2020) was a New Zealand lawyer and jurist. He served as a judge of the Māori Land Court from 1984 to 1999, as Chief Justice of the High Court of Niue from 1978 until 2010, and as a judge of th ...

. He was succeeded as Chief Justice of Niue on 22 November 2018 by

Craig Coxhead Craig Coxhead is a New Zealand judge who is currently serving as Chief Justice of Niue. Coxhead graduated from the University of Waikato in 1994 with a Bachelor of Laws. He worked in private practice before becoming a lecturer at the University ...

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