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Full Title: Category: Honorary Bencher Bench Call Date: 10.6.2024 Bio: Sir Stephen Kós KNZM KC studied law at Victoria and Cambridge Universities. After practising at Russell McVeagh, he joined the New Zealand independent bar in 2005, co-founding Stout Street Chambers. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2007. His principal fields of practice were commercial, equity and environmental litigation. He was appointed to the New Zealand High Court in 2011 and to the Court of Appeal in 2015, where he was President from 2016 to 2022. He became a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in April 2022. He has academic interests in private law and legal history. He is a Distinguished Fellow at the Victoria University Law School and a Senior Fellow at the Melbourne University Law School, where he was the James Merralls Visiting Fellow 2022/23. In 2023 he was knighted for services to the judiciary and legal education. |