About Tom Weston
Born 1958. Tom Weston is a New Zealand judge and poet.
Thomas Crowley Weston (born 1958) is a New Zealand lawyer and former Chief Justice of the Cook Islands. He is also known as a poet.
Biography Weston was born in 1958 in Christchurch. He attended the University of Canterbury, from where he graduated with LL.B. (Hons).
Weston has a long history as a commercial litigator. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1999, and later that year was appointed to the Rules Committee, the body responsible for setting court rules. He was reappointed in 2002 for a further term of three years.
From 2006, was a part-time judge of the Cook Islands High Court and Court of Appeal.
Weston has published several books of poems. Small Humours of Daylight deals mostly with travel by sea between islands, and was reviewed by Graham Brazier for The New Zealand Herald.
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Who is Tom Weston?
New Zealand lawyer and justice of the High Court and Court of Appeal of the Cook Islands
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Tom Weston was born in 1958 in Christchurch.
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Tom Weston is a judge and poet.
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