Section 123 — Senior Courts Act 2016: Seniority of High Court Judges

123 Seniority of High Court Judges (1) High Court Judges are senior to— (a) Associate Judges; and (b) District Court Judges. (2) Among the High Court Judges who are not Supreme Court Judges or Court of Appeal Judges,— (a) the Chief High Court Judge is senior to those Judges: (b) the other Judges are senior to each other in order of date of appointment: (c) 2 or more High Court Judges having the same date of appointment— (i) have seniority according to the precedence assigned to them by the Governor-General on appointment; or (ii) if no precedence was assigned to them, according to the order in which they took the judicial oath. (3) To avoid doubt, a Court of Appeal Judge who resigns from that office without resigning as a High Court Judge has, as a High Court Judge, the seniority that he or she would have had if he or she had not been appointed a Court of Appeal Judge. Compare: 1908 No 89 ss 4(3) , 57(6D)