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Professor Tony Smith
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* non-resident practising member
Known professionally as A.T.H. Smith, Tony is the Dean of the Faculty of Law and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Government Relations) at Victoria University of Wellington, where he is also the Director of the New Zealand Centre for Public Law. He was formerly Cambridge University Professor of Criminal and Public Laws and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, and is the author or joint author of various books including Arlidge, Eady and Smith on contempt and an acknowledged expert on that area of law.
Since joining chambers in 2002 he has been involved in a number of notable cases including Douglas v Hello! and Interbrew SA v Financial Times Ltd..
Tony previously served as a Member of the International Panel of Advisers in the Appeal of Abdulbasset Al Megrahi (Lockerbie) at Camp Zeist, Holland and held positions on the Editorial Boards of the Criminal Law Review, Cambridge Law Journal and Journal of Financial Crime.
He was also Chairman of the Committee of Heads of University Law Schools and lectures at Cambridge, City University and in Paris.
Career
Called
1992 Called to the Bar
Education
Education: University of Cambridge, LL. D.
Education: University of Canterbury, New Zealand LL. B., LL. M.
Dean of the Faculty of Law and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Government Relations) at Victoria University of Wellington
Fellow and Tutor, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Reader in Law, University of Durham (Dean of Faculty 1984-5)
Professor of Law, University of Reading (Head of Department 1998-1990)
Lecturer and then Reader, University of Cambridge
University Advocate
Professor of Law, University of Cambridge (Chairman of Faculty, 1999-2001)
Qualifications
Bencher of the Middle Temple
Admitted Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand
Areas of work
- Defamation
- Privacy and Confidence
- Data Protection
- Contempt
- Human Rights
- Malicious Falsehood