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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Herbert Richard Churton Wild GBE KCMG QC (20 September 1912 – 22 May 1978) was the ninth Chief Justice of New Zealand.
Family
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Wild was born in Blenheim in 1912.[1] His father, Leonard Wild, was at that time science teacher at Marlborough High School.[2] He attended Feilding Agricultural High School. His sister Dora later married the jurist John White.[3] His son, John Wild, was a judge at the High Court and then the Court of Appeal.[4]
Chief justice
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He famously decided the case of Fitzgerald v Muldoon in 1976.[citation needed]
Wild was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 1977. He resigned as Chief Justice in early 1978 and died shortly after.[1]
References
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^ "Hon Sir John Charles White MBE, 1911–2007". New Zealand Law Society. December 2007. Archived from the original on 11 June 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
^ "From judge's bench to woodworking bench – dovetailing into retirement". Stuff. 17 March 2017. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
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