Career
He was President of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand from 1963 until his retirement in 1972. North was born in 1900, the son of Baptist minister John James North, and attended Canterbury University College, graduating Master of Laws in 1927. In the 1964 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1966.
Between 1976 and 1978, North conducted a commission of inquiry into an alleged breach of confidentiality of the police file on Colin Moyle.
