Thomas Thorp
Sir Thomas Murray Thorp
Professional career
From 1963 to 1979, Thorp was the Crown Solicitor in Gisborne.[citation needed] He sat as a judge in the High Court of New Zealand from 1979 until 1996.[citation needed] In 1990, Thorp received the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.[2] In the 1997 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, in recognition of his service as a judge of the High Court.[3]
Thorp served as chairman of the National Parole Board and sat as a member of the Court of Appeal.[citation needed]
Later life and death
After his retirement as a judge, Thorp wrote reports into some controversial matters.[citation needed]
In 1997, he reviewed
In 1999, he wrote a report into the
In 2005, Thorp published a book entitled Miscarriages of Justice.[
Thorp lived in the Auckland suburb of Parnell. He died on 17 October 2018.[4]
References
- ^ "Death search: registration number 2018/29496". Births, deaths & marriages online. Department of Internal Affairs. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
- ISSN 1172-9813.
- ^ "New Year honours list 1997". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 1996. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
- ^ "Sir Thomas Thorp death notice". Dominion Post. 22 October 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
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- Sir Thomas Thorp, Opinion for The Secretary for Justice re Petitions for the Exercise of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy by Peter Hugh McGregor Ellis, Auckland, March 1999
- See http://www.peterellis.org.nz/docs/1999/Thorp/index.htm