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Sir Frederik Gordon Roy Ward OBE is a retired British judge who has served in various countries of the Commonwealth. He was Chief Justice of Tonga and a judge of the Supreme Court of Tonga.〔Susan Boyd (2003), "Australian judges at work internationally", ''Australian Law Journal'', vol. 77, p. 303 at 305.〕 He resigned this post in 2004 in protest at attempts to ban the ''Times of Tonga'' newspaper, a paper unsympathetic to the government, a move which he considered to be unconstitutional. On leaving this post he took up a new position as the President of the Appeal Court of Fiji. In 2007, following the December 2006 military coup, Ward and five other judges resigned as judges of the courts of Fiji. He was the Chief Justice of the Turks and Caicos Islands from 2008 to 2012 and was knighted in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to the judiciary in the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Commonwealth. Ward is the current Chief Justice of the High Court of Tuvalu.〔〔 In May 2013 the Chief Justice ruled on the application of the Tuvaluan Opposition regarding the calling of a by-election for the vacant seat in Nukufetau,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Attorney General, In re Application under Section 131(1) of the Constitution of Tuvalu () TVHC 15; Civil Case 1.2013 (24 May 2013) )〕 which led to the Nukufetau by-election, 2013. The Chief Justice was forced to conduct the legal proceedings by email as a consequence of being unable to travel from New Zealand to Tuvalu via Fiji as the Fijian government refused to provide Sir Gordon Ward with a visa that allowed him to travel from New Zealand to Fiji and then to transit to Tuvalu. The Government of Tuvalu has attempted to resolve the matter with the Government of Fiji.〔 Ward served as a judge on the Court of Appeal of the Solomon Islands. ==References== 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「Gordon Ward」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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