Noel Cox

The Reverend Dr
Noel Cox
Born 3 June 1965
Auckland, New Zealand
Occupation lawyer, academic and priest
Nationality New Zealand
Alma mater University of Auckland
Spouse Katy Cox

Noel Cox, FRHistS (born 3 June 1965) is a New Zealand-born lawyer and priest. He is a specialist in constitutional law, and an advocate of the Monarchy in New Zealand, having being a long-term Chairman of the Monarchist League of New Zealand, now Monarchy New Zealand.[1] He was also Convener of the Auckland District Law Society Public Issues Committee.[2] He was Head of the Department of Law at the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, 2004-2009. Noel Cox was also Head of the Department of Law and Criminology at Aberystwyth University, in Wales 2010-2013, but was dismissed by a disciplinary panel.[3] He is a priest of the Church in Wales,[4] although he has currently been asked to stop taking services due to termination of employment from Aberystwyth University.[5]

Academic career

He holds the degrees of LLB, LLM, MTheol, MA, PhD, as well as an LTh, a Graduate Diploma in Tertiary Teaching and a Certificate in Tertiary Teaching. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).[6]

His main field of research interest is constitutional law (mainly aspects of the Crown, and ecclesiastical law). His work has been published in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, the Netherlands, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. He has presented conference papers in Australia, England, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United States of America, and Wales. He has taught in New Zealand, the Czech Republic, Poland and the United Kingdom.

His work was cited, inter alia, by the Court of Appeal in Ontario, in Black v Chretien (2001) 199 DLR (4th) 228, and the Federal Court of Canada, in Copello v Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada [2002] 3 FC 24 and Khadr v Canada (Attorney-General) [2006] FC 727; [2007] 2 FCR 218, para 89; in the Court of Appeal of New Zealand, in Takamore v Clarke [2011] NZCA 587 (23 November 2011) per Glazebrook J (Glazebrook, Chambers and Wild JJ) and in the Supreme Court of Canada, in Odhavji v Woodhouse [2003] SCC 69, on appeal from the Court of Appeal in Ontario [2000] OR (3d) 181.

Cox was Professor of Law, and 2004-2009 Head of the Department of Law, of the Faculty of Business and Law, at the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He has also been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge (St Edmund's College[7] and Wolfson College) and The Australian National University. He taught for a decade at the Auckland University of Technology before moving to the United Kingdom.

From 2010 to 2014 he was Professor of Law (and Head of the Department of Law and Criminology 2010-2013) at Aberystwyth University, Wales, but was dismissed on May 23, 2014, due to alleged financial and other misdemeanours, and according to a statement by the university, a breach of the university's duty of care towards a member of staff.[8][9]

Legal career

He is a barrister. He was admitted and enrolled as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand 1988, admitted and enrolled as a Legal Practitioner of the Supreme Court of New South Wales 1999, admitted as a Barrister of the Supreme Court of Tasmania 1999, registered as a Practitioner of the Supreme Court of South Australia 1999, registered as a Legal Practitioner of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory 2001, admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria 2004, admitted as a Barrister of the Supreme Court of Queensland 2004, and registered as a Legal Practitioner of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory 2004. He was admitted as a Barrister-at-Law by the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple 2011.[10]

He was also Convener of the Auckland District Law Society Public Issues Committee,[11] and has commented in the media on legal matters,[12] especially constitutional law questions.[13]

In 2007 he was appointed a consultant by the World Bank to review the disciplinary processes for the Kenyan Bar.

Monarchist

Cox is a defender of the monarchy in New Zealand. He was Chairman of the Monarchist League of New Zealand from 2000 – 2010.[14] He regularly comments in the media about issues pertaining to the Crown and the monarchy.[15][16][17][18][19][20]

Cox is a Fellow of Monarchy New Zealand Inc, and a Patron of the Australian Monarchist League.[21]

Church life

Cox was an ordinand in the Diocesan Training Programme of the Diocese of Auckland, Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia 2009-2010, and Sacristan at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Parnell, Auckland 2009-2010. From 2010 he was an ordinand in the Diocese of St Davids, Church in Wales. He was ordained a deacon in St David's Cathedral 30 June 2012, and served his title in the diocese as Non Stipendiary Assistant Curate in St Padarn's Church, Llanbadarn Fawr (since 2013, in the Grouped Benefice of Llanbadarn Fawr and Elerch and Penrhyncoch and Capel Bangor[22]).[23] Cox was ordained a priest 29 June 2013.[24]

Father Cox is a member of the Society of King Charles the Martyr.

Personal life

He received the Advanced Certificate of The Heraldry Society, and holds membership in various heraldic and academic dress associations.

Cox is a member of the following organisations: Commonwealth Lawyers Association, Legal Research Foundation, the International Association of Amateur Heralds, the Burgon Society (Fellow[25]), The Royal Historical Society (Fellow), The Society of Legal Scholars, The Ecclesiastical Law Society, the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, The University of Auckland Legacy Society, the International Commission and Association on Nobility, the Irish Peers’ Association (Associate Member), and the Centre for Law and Religion (Distinguished Academic Associate).[26]

He has the Grand Cordon of the Royal and Hashemite Order of the Pearl of the Sultanate of Sulu (since 16 August 2011) [27] and is Legal Advisor to the Royal House. He is Legal Adviser of the Association of the Envoys Extraordinary of the Royal Lao Government in Exile (under approval of HRH Crown Prince Soulivong Savang, Head of the Lao Royal Family, and under guidance of HE Professor Khamphoui Sisavatdy, Prime Minister of the Royal Lao Government in Exile. He was a member of the The St John Cymru-Wales Council for Ceredigion, specifically as liaison and guidance officer for Aberystwyth LINKS, the division based at Aberystwyth University.

Dr Cox also had a minor role, as Councillor Riggs, in the Stephanie Linus film "Dry".

Publications

His major publications include:

A series of monographs republish the majority of his refereed journal articles and book chapters, as well as some other legal publications:

In addition, he is the author of some 56 refereed journal articles, 20 book chapters, and over 150 other articles. The works are in the fields of constitutional law, legal history and ecclesiastical law.

Sources

References

  1. ↑ Monarchist League of New Zealand - Chairman
  2. ↑ ADLS - Committee Members
  3. ↑ New Zealand Herald
  4. ↑ Church in Wales - clergy database
  5. ↑ New Zealand Herald
  6. ↑ Royal Historical Society
  7. ↑ Cambridge University Reporter "College Notices" No 615715 July 2009 Vol cxxxix No 37
  8. ↑ Wales Online
  9. ↑ Aberystwyth Student Media, Head of Law and Criminology Department Steps Down
  10. ↑ The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
  11. ↑ ADLS - Committee Members
  12. ↑ NZCity - Unfair trials feared by lawyers
  13. ↑ Fairfax - Taser shouldn't be rushed - committee
  14. ↑ Official website - Biography - Officers Held
  15. ↑ New Zealand Herald - We Are Not Amused By Poll
  16. ↑ TVNZ - Queen Arrives In New Zealand
  17. ↑ WikiNews - Interview with Noel Cox
  18. ↑ Royal Absence Disappoints Some - The Dominion Post
  19. ↑ The Dominion Post - Time to cut the Last Apron Strings?
  20. ↑ TVNZ - National Party Policy Proposals
  21. ↑ Australian Monarchist League
  22. ↑ Church in Wales - clergy database
  23. ↑ Pobl Dewi June 2012 page 5
  24. ↑ Church Times 5 July 2013, "Petertide Ordinations"
  25. ↑ The Burgon Society
  26. ↑ Centre for Law and Religion
  27. ↑ Acceptance and Wearing of Commonwealth, Foreign and International Honours by New Zealand Citizens, 23 July 2007: 21. Honours conferred by the head of a former reigning Royal House of a foreign country. No approval is required for the acceptance and wearing of an honour conferred by the head of a former reigning Royal House of a foreign country as a personal honour. Such honours are worn at the discretion of the recipient, but may not be worn on an official uniform.]

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