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Honourable Justice Mark Cooper from Ngāti Māhanga has been appointed President of the Court of Appeal, replacing Honourable Justice Stephen Kós who has been appointed to the Supreme Court.
Justice Sarah Katz has been appointed to the Court of Appeal to fill the vacancy.
Justice Cooper graduated from the University of Auckland in 1979 and joined Butler White & Hanna, which later merged into Simpson Grierson.
He commenced practice as a barrister sole in 1997 and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2000.
He was appointed as a High Court Judge in 2004, and a Court of Appeal Judge in 2014.
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