Richard Wild (judge)

Sir Herbert Richard Churton Wild GBE KCMG QC (20 September 1912 – 22 May 1978) was the ninth Chief Justice of New Zealand.

Wild was born in Blenheim in 1912.^[1] His father, Leonard Wild, was at that time science teacher at Marlborough High School.^[2] He attended Feilding Agricultural High School. His sister Dora later married the jurist John White.^[3] His son, John Wild, was a judge at the High Court and then the Court of Appeal.^[4]

He famously decided the case of Fitzgerald v Muldoon in 1976.^{[citation needed]}

Wild was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 1977. He resigned as Chief Justice in early 1978 and died shortly after.^[1]