Thomas Gault
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The Right Honourable Sir Thomas Gault KNZM QC |
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| President of the Court of Appeal | |
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In office 2002–2003 |
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| Preceded by | Sir Ivor Richardson |
| Succeeded by | Noel Anderson |
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Thomas Munro Gault 31 October 1938 |
| Died | 19 May 2015 (aged 76) Auckland |
Sir Thomas Munro Gault KNZM QC PC (Chinese: 高禮哲, 31 October 1938 – 19 May 2015) was a New Zealand jurist. He was a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Zealand and a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom as well as a non-permanent judge of the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong. He was also a justice of the Supreme Court of Fiji.
Gault attended Wellington College and graduated with a Master of Laws degree from Victoria University of Wellington. After graduation, he was a member of the law firm A J Park & Son for 20 years. In 1981, he began practising as a barrister sole, and in 1984 he was appointed a Queen's Counsel.
His first appointment to the bench was as a Judge of the High Court in 1987, followed three years later by being made a member of the Court of Appeal. He was appointed President of the Court of Appeal in May 2002.
In 2001 he was made a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to the judiciary. In the Special Honours 2009 Gault accepted re-designation of his DCNZM to a Knight Companion of The New Zealand Order of Merit following the restoration of titular honours by the New Zealand government.
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