Sir Clifford Parris "Kip" Richmond (23 June 1914 – 29 January 1997) was a New Zealand lawyer and judge. He served as president of the

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between 1976 and 1981.

Biography

Richmond was born on 23 June 1914 in

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. His father was Howard Richmond. He attended

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and

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, graduating

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with first-class honours in 1937. On 16 March 1938 he married Valerie Jean Hamilton at St Andrew's Church in

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. During

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he was an officer in the

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. Richmond served in the Fourth Field Regiment in North Africa and Italy. He was mentioned in despatches, attained the rank of major and became the personal staff officer to

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. He practised as a partner in the firm Buddle Richmond, later Buddle Richmond Weir, for 15 years, establishing a reputation as a first-class adviser, particularly in matters of commercial law. Richmond was appointed a judge of the New Zealand Supreme Court in 1960, and then the New Zealand Court of Appeal in 1972, and in the following year, he became a Privy Counsellor on the Judicial Committee. He was president of the Court of Appeal from 1976 until his retirement in 1981. In the 1972 Queen's Birthday Honours, Richmond was appointed a

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, for outstanding services to the law, and he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1977 Queen's Silver Jubilee and Birthday Honours. In 2014, Richmond Chambers, a set of barristers based in Auckland, was named in his honour.

References

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