1. Professional career

2. Later life and death

3. References

Sir Thomas Murray Thorp {{post-nominals|country=NZL|size=85%|KNZM}} (1 December 1925^[1] – 17 October 2018) was a New Zealand lawyer and jurist who served as a judge of the High Court of New Zealand.

Professional career

From 1963 to 1979, Thorp was the Crown Solicitor in Gisborne.{{Citation needed|reason=Unverified statement|date=January 2019}} He sat as a judge in the High Court of New Zealand from 1979 until 1996.{{Citation needed|reason=Unverified statement|date=January 2019}} In the 1997 New Year Honours, Thorp was appointed a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, in recognition of his service as a judge of the High Court.^[2]

Thorp served as chairman of the National Parole Board and sat as a member of the Court of Appeal.{{Citation needed|reason=Unverified statement|date=January 2019}}

Later life and death

After his retirement as a judge, Thorp wrote reports into some controversial matters.{{Citation needed|reason=Unverified statement or is it editor's opinion? Are the reports themselves controversial or their subject matter?|date=January 2019}}

In 1997, he reviewed New Zealand's gun control measures, and recommended that all firearms be registered.{{Citation needed|reason=Cite report and give working URL. Existing link is a dead. But URL=http://www.police.govt.nz/about-us/publication/review-firearms-control-new-zealand-june-1997 is working|date=January 2019}} {{Dead link|date=January 2019}} He also wrote a report into the David Bain case in which he said he was satisfied with the trial verdict.{{Citation needed|reason=Unverified statement|date=January 2019}}

In 1999, he wrote a report into the Peter Hugh McGregor Ellis case.{{Citation needed|reason=Cite the source report|date=January 2019}} Thorp expressed misgivings with aspects of the case. He could find no corroboration of the children's claims of sexual abuse. He said that section 23G of the Evidence Act should be repealed because it allowed an expert to say that there was no behaviour inconsistent with sexual abuse. His report recommended that the Justice Ministry obtain the opinion of Stephen J. Ceci with regard to the children's evidence.{{Citation needed|reason=Where in report?|date=January 2019}} The Ministry has ignored this and other recommendations from Thorp's report.{{Citation needed|reason=Unverified statement|date=January 2019}} His report contrasts with that written by Sir Thomas Eichelbaum, which upheld Ellis's conviction.{{Citation needed|reason=Cite this report|date=January 2019}}

In 2005, Thorp published a book entitled Miscarriages of Justice.{{Citation needed|reason=Cite the book|date=January 2019}} He researched 53 applications for the Royal Prerogative of Mercy and found that at least 20 applicants may have been wrongly imprisoned.{{Citation needed|reason=Cite the page(s)|date=January 2019}}

Thorp lived in the Auckland suburb of Parnell. He died on 17 October 2018.^[3]

References

• Sir Thomas Thorp, Opinion for The Secretary for Justice re Petitions for the Exercise of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy by Peter Hugh McGregor Ellis, Auckland, March 1999
• See http://www.peterellis.org.nz/docs/1999/Thorp/index.htm

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