Former judge dead
PA Hamilton Mr Arthur Lance Tompkins, the first Hamilton lawyer to be appointed to the Supreme Court Bench, died suddenly at Taupo on Saturday. He was 81. He was a former president of the Hamilton District Law Society, and represented the New Zealand Law Society at international bar conferences — at Madrid in 1952, and at Salzburg in 1960. He was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 1958, the first lawyer outside the four main centres to achieve the distinction. Appointed to the Bench in 1963, he sat mainly at Wellington. After his retirement from the bench in 1963, Mr Justice Tompkins served as judge of the Fiji Court of Appeal, and as chairman of the Legal Aid Appeal Authority. He served in both world wars, in World War I in France, with the Ist N.Z.E.F., and in New Zealand in World War 11, when he held the rank of major.
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