Sir Terence Arnold (born 1947) is a judge of the

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. He was the Solicitor-General of New Zealand from 2000, before being made a judge of the

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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

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and New York University with an

He taught criminal law at Victoria University of Wellington as well as at several Canadian universities, including

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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. He was a partner of Chapman Tripp Sheffield Young between 1985 and 1994. He became a

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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. 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, but sits as a retired judge when required. In the

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, Arnold was appointed a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the judiciary. 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

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. The inquiry's report found the attack on the villagers was justified. In December 2022 he was appointed to the Cook Islands Court of Appeal.

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from Hon. Michael Cullen, Attorney General, "Appointment of Terence Arnold QC as Judge of the High Court and Court of Appeal", May 4, 2006. {{DEFAULTSORT:Arnold, Terence Court of Appeal of New Zealand judges High Court of New Zealand judges Supreme Court of New Zealand judges Victoria University of Wellington alumni Living people 20th-century New Zealand lawyers 1953 births New Zealand King's Counsel Solicitors-General of New Zealand Knights Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit 21st-century New Zealand judges New Zealand judges on the courts of the Cook Islands