Erima Northcroft

Sir Erima Harvey Northcroft (2 December 1884 – 10 October 1953) was a New Zealand lawyer, judge, and military leader. His papers from the Tokyo War Crimes Trial are held by the University of Canterbury.

Biography Northcroft was born in Hokitika, New Zealand. He attended Auckland University College and began his law practice in Hamilton. The same year he returned to New Zealand, resumed his law practice, and joined an Auckland law firm in 1923. Also in 1935, Northcroft was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand at Christchurch, a superior trial court. After returning from Japan, he resumed sitting as a Supreme Court judge, and occasionally sat as a judge of the New Zealand Court of Appeal.

Northcroft died in Christchurch on 10 October 1953. The botanist and physician Earle Northcroft was his cousin.

After his death his papers went to the Justice Erima Harvey Northcroft Tokyo War Crimes Trial Collection at the University of Canterbury, which was added to the Asia Pacific regional section of the UNESCO Memory of the World Register in 2010.