City Lawyer Judge Of Supreme Court

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29915, 31 August 1962, Page 12

City Lawyer Judge Of Supreme Court

il*rom uu» Parliamentary Ke purl er I WELLINGTON, August 3(1 The Minister of Justice (Mr Hanan) today announced the appointment of Mr Alan Clifford Perry, of Christchurch, to the Supreme Court bench. Mr Justice Turner, who has been a judge of the Supreme Court resident in Auckland for the last nine years, fills the place on the Court of Appeal left vacant by tne death of Mr Justice Cleary.

Mr Perry, who was born at Oamaru 55 years ago, was educated at Christ’s College and Canterbury University College. frem which he graduated with honours in

law in 1929. While still a • tudent, he joined tihe Christchurch firm of Wilding and Acland. with which he has spent the whole of his professional 1 ♦?. He has been a oar'ner for the last 26 years. He has had a mixed general practice, with particular exoerience in local body and commercial work, and common law cases. Mr Perry has appeared as counsel before a number of commissions, including the Ballantyne fire inquiry. the Local Government. Milk and Licensing Commi~®ions.

He was chairman of the marine inquiries on the freighters Holmburn and Holmglen. He has appeared in numerous cases in the Court of Appeal and in 1960 he conducted a successful appeal in the Privy Council. In Law Society affairs, Mr Perry has given long service He was president of the

Canterbury Law Society in 1950 and has served since 1951 as a member of the disciplinary committee and the legal education committee of the New Zealand society. Danish Consul

Mr Perry has been a councillor of the Automobile Association (Canterbury) for some years and since 1942 he has been consul for Denmark in Christchurch. He is a Chevalier of the Royal Danish Order of Dannebrog. He is married and has three children.

It is expected that Mr Perry will be sworn in in two or three weeks. He will thus have to relinquish an engage, ment as counsel for the New Zealand Flourmillers' Society before the current Committee of Inquiry into the wheatgrowing. flourmilling, and breadbaking industries. The new member of the Appeal Court, Mr Justice Turner, is 60. After a distinguished career at the Auckland Grammar School he graduated with first-class honours in arts at Auckland University College, then tock

his bachelor of law degree and was admitted to the bar the next year when he was 22. He began practice on his own account when he was only 25 and for 26 years he built up his firm. He was ap;x>inted Queen’s Counsel in 1952 and elevated to the Supreme Court Bench in 1953.