Editing Dudley Ward (judge) (section)

=== Supreme Court ===
Ward was appointed Acting Supreme Court Judge on four occasions: September 1867 Dunedin; September 1886 Auckland; September 1887 Christchurch; March 1894 Dunedin again.

He had been involved in the parliamentary ''Ward-Chapman'' enquiry of 1874–75 after he laid certain charges of gross partiality against Justice [[Henry Samuel Chapman|Chapman]] of the Supreme Court. Chapman retired in 1875.

Ward declined a permanent appointment on the Supreme Court bench in June 1896, the offer being received just after the death of his wife, and he declined an Acting Supreme Court judgeship in the following year.<ref name="ODT obit">{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ODT19130901.2.60 | title=Obituary | work=[[Otago Daily Times]] | date=1 September 1913 | issue=15857 | page=5}}</ref>