Robin Brunskill Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, served as President of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand from 1986 to 1996. Following his retirement from the New Zealand bench he received a British life peerage and sat as a Law Lord on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council until 2001, the only New Zealand judge to sit in the House of Lords in the past century, hearing roughly one hundred appellate cases. He also served as a non-permanent judge of Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal from 1997 until his death in 2006.
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Robin Brunskill Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, (9 May 1926 – 30 August 2006) was a New Zealand judge and later a British Law Lord and member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
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He is widely considered one of New Zealand's most influential jurists, and is the only New Zealand judge to have sat in the House of Lords.
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Robin Brunskill Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, (9 May 1926 - 30 August 2006) was a New Zealand judge and later a British Law Lord and member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
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He is most widely known for his contribution to the development of administrative law (both in New Zealand and internationally) and his influence in the development of legal recognition for the Treaty of Waitangi.
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On his retirement from the Court of Appeal in 1996 Cook was granted a British life peerage as Baron Cooke of Thorndon, (a suburb of Wellington) in New Zealand and of Cambridge in the County of Cambridgeshire, becoming a member of the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords where he sat as a Lord of Appeal (Law Lord) until his retirement in 2001.
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Wikidata Q7352331, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1926
Wikidata Q7352331, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1926-05-09
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P570 (date of death): 2006
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P570 (date of death): 2006-08-30
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P19 (place of birth): Wellington
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