April 06, 2015
Judge had class and humility
The late Judge Mick Brown is being remembered as an urban Maori leader as well as a ground-breaking jurist.
The first Maori district court judge and first principal judge of the Family Court died on Thursday at the age of 77.
He has been lying in state at Te Mahurehure, the urban marae he created in the inner Auckland suburb of Point Chevalier from a former rugby league club.
Former Maori affairs minister Koro Wetere, who used his ministerial influence to help the project, says he was a humble man of extraordinary ability.
"He just had finesse written all over his face and a man full of humility and a deep sense of commitment to whatever he was doing and a genuineness to try to help people. That's why I got very close to Mick, We got to understand one another and see how we could help one another in some of these things," Mr Wetere says.
The funeral service for Judge Mick Brown is at 11 this morning at Tatai Te Hono, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Khyber Pass Rd, after which he will be buried at Waikumete Cemetery.
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