Mr Hanan’s Tribute To Sir Timothy Cleary

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29906, 21 August 1962, Page 20

Mr Hanan’s Tribute To Sir Timothy Cleary

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, Aug. 20. The Attorney-General (Mr Hanan) said today that a wave of sadness had passed over all those associated with the administration of justice in New Zealand at Mr Justice Cleary’s sudden death. He was the friend of many and had the respect and admiration of all.

Mr Hanan was speaking in the Supreme Court before a large gathering of judges, magistrates and members of the legal profession paying tribute to Mr Justice Cleary a member of the Court of Appeal, who died last week "I wish to acknowledge the gratitude of the Government and the community for the great service that Mr Justice Cleary rendered New Zealand as a judge of the Court of Appeal itnce his appointment when that court was estabPshed at the beginning of 1958.” Mr Hanan said “The court has already taken its place surely and deservedly among the appellate tribunals of the British Commonwealth, and its pronouncements have claimed respectful attention by other courts of comparable jurisdiction and by legal commentators far beyond New Zealand. That this is so is due to the high quality of its judgments; and in the forging and fashioning of those judgments, we all know that Mr Justice Cleary played his full part.

“The. unusually profound knowledge of legal principle, the unerring acumen for sifting the truth from a complicated set of facts and the wisdom which distinguished him in practice, has yielded its full fruit in his work on the Bench.” said Mr Hanan.

“I venture to predict that his judgments, with their characteristically simple but lucid expression, will be read with respect long after our time We have in truth lost a great judge.” The Chief Justice (Sir Harold Barrowclough) said Mr Justice Cleary had endeared himself to his brethren by his qualities The president of the New Zealand Law Society, Mr E D. Blundell, said that since Mr Justice Cleary’s death last Wednesday, he had been inundated with requests from district societies throughout New Zealand to pay tribute to the memory of a great and kindly man. When at long last Mr Justice Cleary accepted appointment to the Bench in 1957. the profession regarded it as a fitting reward and the almost inevitable destiny of a great lawyer. To each and all he would always be remembered as “Tim Cleary” and to hundreds he was a very real friend.

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