Craig Coxhead is a

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judge who is currently serving as Chief Justice of the High Court of Niue. Coxhead graduated from the

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in 1994 with a Bachelor of Laws. He worked in private practice before becoming a lecturer at the University of Waikato Law School. He served as president of Te Huinga Roia Māori o Aotearoa – the New Zealand Māori Law Society. Coxhead was appointed to the

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on 25 January 2008. In 2011 he was appointed as a judge of the High Court of Niue, and in 2016 as a Justice of the High Court of the

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. He was appointed Chief Justice of Niue on 22 November 2018, replacing Patrick Savage. In May 2024, he was appointed Deputy Chief Judge of the Māori Land Court.

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