Owen Woodhouse
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The Right Honourable Sir Owen Woodhouse ONZ KBE DSC |
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| President of the Court of Appeal | |
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In office 1981–1986 |
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| Preceded by | Clifford Richmond |
| Succeeded by | Robin Cooke |
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18 July 1916 Napier, New Zealand |
| Died | 15 April 2014 (aged 97) Auckland, New Zealand |
Sir Arthur Owen Woodhouse ONZ KBE DSC (18 July 1916 – 15 April 2014) was a New Zealand jurist and chair of government commissions.
Woodhouse was born in Napier and completed an LL.B. at the University of Auckland in 1940. He served as a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve during World War II on motor torpedo boats and was a liaison officer with the Yugoslav Partisan in 1943. Two years later, he was serving at the British Embassy in Belgrade as assistant to the Naval Attaché. He received the Distinguished Service Cross in 1944 for naval operations in the Adriatic.
Woodhouse was appointed a Judge of the New Zealand Supreme Court in 1961, and then the New Zealand Court of Appeal in 1974. The same year, he became a Privy Counsellor on the Judicial Committee. He was President of the Court of Appeal from 1981 until his retirement in 1986, after which he was appointed President of the Law Commission until 1991.
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