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Sir Edward Jonathan Somers (9 September 1928 – 3 June 2002) was a New Zealand jurist and member of the Privy Council. ==Biography== Somers was born in Christchurch in 1928, and was educated at Christ's College and the University of Canterbury, where he gained a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws.〔 He practised as a barrister and solicitor between 1952 and 1971, and solely as a barrister thereafter. In 1973 he was appointed Queen's Counsel, and the following year he became a judge of the Supreme Court (now High Court). He was appointed a judge of the Court of Appeal in 1981, a role from which he retired in 1990.〔(Sir Edward Somers ). Bloody Sunday Trust. Retrieved 18 May 2013.〕 In 1981, he was also appointed to the Privy Council. Somers was a part-time lecturer at the University of Canterbury from 1954 to 1974. In 1998, Somers was appointed by the British government to be a member of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry. He resigned from that role for personal reasons in 2000. Somers died of cancer in Christchurch in 2002. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edward Somers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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