Rt. Hon Sir Edmund (Ted) Thomas KNZM QC
The Rt Hon. Sir Ted Thomas KNZM QC is a retired judge of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand and a former acting judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. Sir Ted was also the driving force of the establishment of the NZBA and its first President. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1981 and was appointed to the High Court of New Zealand in 1990 where he served for five years before being elevated to the Court of Appeal. He retired in 2001 but was appointed as an acting Judge of the Supreme Court in 2005. Sir Ted was made a member of the Privy Council in 1996. In 2002 he was appointed a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
Following his retirement Sir Ted was Distinguished Fellow at the Law School at the University of Auckland. He retired from that position in February of 2018.
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