Simon Moore QC appointed a High Court Judge

Simon Moore QC in 2010. File photo / APN

Auckland Crown Solicitor Simon Moore QC has been appointed a High Court Judge.

Justice Moore would sit in Auckland, Attorney-General Christopher Finlayson announced today.

Crown Law will shortly appoint a partner of Meredith Connell to act as interim Crown Solicitor.

Justice Moore graduated with an LLB from Auckland University in 1980 and was employed as a law clerk at Meredith Connell in Auckland, becoming a staff solicitor in 1982.

In 1985 he was admitted to the partnership of the firm and has been chairman of partners since 2003.

He was appointed Crown Solicitor for Auckland in June, 1994.

In March 2000 Justice Moore was appointed Public Prosecutor for Pitcairn Island by the British Government, and in 2004 was responsible for the prosecution of 12 men on the Island for historical sexual offending.

Justice Moore was appointed Senior Counsel in 2008, becoming Queen's Counsel when the title was restored in 2012.