Peter Hogg, seen here on Sept. 24, 2003, was considered so authoritative and trustworthy that judges were known to consult him during their private deliberations on cases.Peter Hogg, a New Zealander who became this country’s pre-eminent constitutional scholar, was sometimes called the 10th person on the nine-member Supreme Court of Canada.
As was typical in affluent homes, his parents sent him to a boys’ boarding school, Nelson College, for secondary education. He found it oppressive, his son, David, a professor of astrophysics at New York University, said. “He liked to say, everything was either compulsory or forbidden. The days were scheduled down to the minute, including the time on Sunday afternoons in which they had to write a letter home of a specified length.
He was skeptical when Mr. Le Dain asked him to teach constitutional law."I said ‘Gerry, I know nothing about Canadian constitutional law,’” he told Virginia Corner, who interviewed him for an Osgoode publication. “He said ‘I have four sections to staff, and I only have professors for three of them.’”
So authoritative and trustworthy was he considered that judges were known to consult him during their private deliberations on cases. The secret lay in his personal qualities. “Students knew he was on their side. He was there to help them learn the law. He was not there to show how brilliant he was and how ignorant they were. He wasn’t there to make it so complicated that only minor geniuses could possibly unravel it, or people who spent as much time thinking about it as Peter Hogg did.
Another came in 2004 when he was lead counsel for the federal attorney-general in an important case for same-sex marriage at the Supreme Court.
geezus, NZ, probably the most corrupted courts of the commonwealth...
RIP to a king
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