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Robin Brunskill Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, ONZ, KBE, PC (9 May 1926 – 30 August 2006) was a New Zealand judge and later a British Law Lord and member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
When Sir Robin Cooke was elevated to the peerage in 1996, he took as his title "Baron Cooke of Thorndon in Wellington and Cambridge in the County of Cambridgeshire". The reference to ... Victoria University College in 1950, the young Robin Cooke 8 took up the Travelling Scholarship in Law awarded by the University of New Zealand in the same year, 9
Robin Brunskill Cooke, barón Cooke de Thorndon, ONZ, KBE, PC (9 de mayo de 1926 - 30 de agosto de 2006) fue un neozelandés juez y más tarde Law Lord británico y miembro del Comité Judicial del Consejo Privado.
13 de dic. de 2006 · The Rt Hon Sir Robin Brunskill Cooke, latterly the Baron Cooke of Thorndon, of Wellington in New Zealand, and of Cambridge in the County of Cambridgeshire, ONZ, KBE, PC, QC, died on 30 August 2006....
In 1989 Victoria University of Wellington awarded him an Honoarary Doctorate of Laws, and since 2002 the university has held an annual Robin Cooke Lecture on contitutional and administrative law. He died in 2006.
3 de mar. de 2014 · First, he explains why he decided to include Thorndon in his peerage name, Baron Cooke of Thorndon of Wellington in New Zealand and of Cambridge in the County of Cambridgeshire. Sir Robin discusses growing up in Thorndon, and his work in the old Supreme Court building and the Court of Appeal building, both of which were in Thorndon.
Baron Cooke of Thorndon, previously known as the Rt Hon Sir Robin Cooke (and referred to throughout this note as Lord Cooke), is widely regarded as one of New Zealand's greatest judges.1 As both an advocate and a judge, Lord Cooke made a monumental contribution to many areas of law.
