Court’s mark of respect
PA Auckland Judge Blackwood adjourned his court for five minutes yesterday as a mark of respect for the late Mr Leonard Sinclair. Mr Leonard George Herston Sinclair, aged 83, who died in Waipu at the weekend, was a senior magistrate. He sat on the Bench for 21 years, most of them in Auckland, after being ap-
pointed a Magistrate in 1946. Judge Blackwood said in the District Court at Auckland that Mr Sinclair had been small in physical stature but would be remembered as the “gentle giant” of the legal profession. The one-time Chief Justice to the Tongan Government and chief magistrate in the British Solomon
Islands Protectorate, Mr Sinclair went on to chair the Marriage Guidance Advisory Committee, Magistrates’ Executive Committee for New Zealand, the Indecent Publications Tribunal and a Commission of Inquiry into the State Services Act. He was also involved in the rehabilitation of alcoholics and pushed for a youth prison for young offenders.
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