King's Birthday Honours 2025: Mark Cooper – a judge knighted

King's Birthday Honours 2025: Mark Cooper – a judge knighted
Mark Cooper KC at his final sitting in the Court of Appeal. (Image: Supplied)
Victoria Young
“We are going to have a party,” the newly knighted Mark Cooper told BusinessDesk ahead of today’s King's Birthday Honours announcement. “We’ve invented an excuse for a small party, which is not [the knighthood].”Cooper is one of three knights celebrating making this year’s King’s Birthday Honours list and the most recent judge to take the top honour since Justice Stephen Kos.“This is a very significant thing,” remarked Cooper, “it’s an indication that my long judicial c...

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