Education
Gault attended Wellington College and graduated with a Master of Laws degree from Victoria University of Wellington.
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Career
He was also a justice of the Supreme Court of Fiji. In 1981, he began practising as a barrister sole, and in 1984 he was appointed a Queen"s Counsel. He was appointed President of the Court of Appeal in May 2002.
He was referee for The Open Championship from 1993 to 1998.
He joined The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of Street Andrews in 1994, and was made its first New Zealand captain in September 2005. Gault died at home in Auckland in 2015.
Achievements
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In 2001 he was made a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to the judiciary. In the Special Honours 2009 Gault accepted re-designation of his DCNZM to a Knight Companion of The New Zealand Order of Merit following the restoration of titular honours by the New Zealand government. A keen golfer, Gault won the New Zealand Universities’ Championship, and was awarded Blues by both Victoria University and the University of New Zealand.
Membership
He was a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Zealand and a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom as well as a non-permanent judge of the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong. After graduation he was a member of the law firm A J Park & Son for 20 years. His first appointment to the bench was as a Judge of the High Court in 1987, followed three years later by being made a member of the Court of Appeal.
Moving into the administration of the game, he was President of the New Zealand Golf Association from 1987 to 1996 and as an Advisory Member of the Rules of Golf and Amateur Status Committees from 1978 to 1996.
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Died
March 19, 2015 (aged 76)