Background
Casey was born in Christchurch in 1923.
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Maurice Casey
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He received his education at Street Patrick"s College in Wellington, and at Victoria University College (1940–1946) from where he graduated LLL (Honours).
Career
Casey was admitted to the bar in 1946 and practised in Lower Hutt, Blenheim, and from 1950 in Auckland. He was appointed as a judge in 1974 at the Supreme Court, which became the High Court in 1980. He became a household name in New Zealand when his injunction prevented the planned All Blacks tour to South Africa in 1985.
Instead, an unofficial tour by a team known as the New Zealand Cavaliers took place in 1986.
In March 1986, Casey was appointed to the Court of Appeal. In the following year, he was appointed privy counsellor.
He retired from the Court of Appeal in August 1995. After his retirement, he sat on appellate courts of various Pacific Island nations.
He was part of the Fijian Court of Appeal that found that the interim government installed after the 2000 Fijian coup d"état was unconstitutional.
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Fiji