Education
He holds an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Otago.
He holds an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Otago.
Justice Robertson is a graduate of the University of Otago and the University of Virginia. Before becoming a High Court judge in 1987, Justice Robertson was a partner in the law firm Ross, Dowling, Marquet and Griffin. One of his earliest appointments after his appointment to the High Court was to chair the Search and Search Warrants Committee, which published its final report in 1988.
Robertson was also a judge on the Court of Appeal of Vanuatu.
Justice Robertson is also the consulting editor for Adams on Criminal Law and Adams on Criminal Law Student Edition. In 2013 Sir Bruce was appointed as Chair of the New Zealand Sports Tribunial.
Sir Bruce was appointed as the New Zealand Commissioner of Security Warrants in July 2013.
From 2001 until his appointment as a member of the Court of Appeal, he was President of the New Zealand Law Commission.