What is Grant Hammond?
[[File:Grant Hammond KNZM (cropped).jpg|thumb|190px|Hammond in 2011]] '''Sir Robert Grant Hammond''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|KNZM|size=100%}} (14 May 1944 – 31 May 2019) was a [[New Zealand]] jurist and law professor. He was born in [[Te Awamutu]]. He was a judge of the [[High Court of New Zealand]] from 1992 to 2004, and was a justice of the [[Court of Appeal of New Zealand|Court of Appeal]] from 2004 to 2011. He served as president of the [[New Zealand Law Commission]] from 2010 to 2016. From 2010 until his death in 2019, Hammond was a judge of the Supreme Court of [[Samoa]]. Hammond died on 31 May 2019, at the age of 75.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://notices.nzherald.co.nz/obituaries/nzherald-nz/obituary.aspx?n=sir-grant-hammond&pid=193045349|title=Sir Grant Hammond|newspaper=[[The New Zealand Herald]]|date=4 June 2019|access-date=4 June 2019}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hammond, Grant}} [[Category:1944 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:New Zealand judges]] [[Category:New Zealand academics]] [[Category:People from North Island]] {{Bio-stub}}