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Sir Kenneth James Keith ONZ KBE KC PC (born 19 November 1937)[1] is a New Zealand judge. He was elected to the International Court of Justice in November 2005, serving a nine-year term during the years 2006 through 2015.[2]
Keith was educated at the Auckland Grammar School and studied law at the University of Auckland , Victoria University of Wellington , and Harvard Law School . He was a faculty member of Victoria University from 1962 to 1964 and from 1966 to 1991. He served in the New Zealand Department of External Affairs during the early 1960s, and as a member of the United Nations Secretariat from 1968 to 1970. After this, he was Director of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs [3] [4] and later became President of the New Zealand Law Commission . He was also a member of the Royal Commission on the Electoral System which was key in changing New Zealand's electoral system . In 1993 he was a member of the Working Party on the Reorganisation of the Income Tax Act 1976 which was instrumental in launching a fundamental reform the way New Zealand tax legislation was written.
From 1996 to 2003, Keith was a Judge of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand and was a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London . He was subsequently one of the inaugural appointments to the new Supreme Court of New Zealand which replaced the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as from 1 July 2004. Prior to his appointment to the International Court of Justice, he sat (as required) as a Judge of Appeal in Samoa (since 1982), the Cook Islands (since 1982) and Niue (since 1995), and Judge of the Supreme Court of Fiji . He has also sat as the chair of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Tribunal (UPS v Canada ).
Legal career [ edit ]
In 1961, Keith was admitted to the New Zealand Bar , and in 1994 appointed a Queen's Counsel .[5] In 1996 Keith was appointed as a Judge of High Court of New Zealand and the Court of Appeal of New Zealand [6] On 21 May 1998 Keith was appointed to the Privy Council [7] and in 2004 was appointed to the Supreme Court of New Zealand .[8]
Keith is the first New Zealander to be elected to the International Court of Justice (2006–2015), having previously presented as a member of the New Zealand legal team in the Nuclear Tests cases before the International Court of Justice in 1973, 1974 and 1995.[9]
He recently served as a Judge ad hoc in two cases before the ICJ, appointed by Azerbaijan. He resigned from these positions on April 21, 2023, and was replaced by Judge Abdul G. Koroma . [10]
Honours and awards [ edit ]
In the 1988 Queen's Birthday Honours , Keith was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire , for services to law reform and legal education,[11] and in the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours he was appointed a Member of the Order of New Zealand .[12] [13]
Lectures [ edit ]
^ www.victoria.ac.nz Archived 29 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine
^ The New Zealand Institute of International Affairs Archived 21 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Appointment of Queen’s Counsel" (6 October 1994) 101 New Zealand Gazette 3001 at 3021.
^ "Appointment of Judge of High Court and Court of Appeal" (15 February 1996) 13 New Zealand Gazette 421 at 443.
^ "Appointments to the Privy Council" (28 May 1998) 74 New Zealand 1613 at 1644.
^ "Appointment of Judges of the Supreme Court" (20 November 2003) 157 New Zealand Gazette 4333 at 4357.
^ "New Zealand at the International Court of Justice" . New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Retrieved 31 May 2013 .
^ "Solemn declarations of Judge ad hoc Koroma | International Court of Justice" (PDF) . www.icj-cij.org . Retrieved 9 August 2023 .
^ "No. 51367" . The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 11 June 1988. p. 34.
^ "The Queen's Birthday Honours 2007" (13 June 2007) 63 New Zealand Gazette 1657.
^ Johnston, Martin (4 June 2007). "Heroes in word and deed" . The New Zealand Herald . Retrieved 4 June 2007 .
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