Colin Aikman

Colin Campbell Aikman CBE (24 August 1919 – 22 December 2002) was a New Zealand public servant, lawyer and diplomat. He was professor of jurisprudence and constitutional law at Victoria University of Wellington between 1955 and 1968; first Vice Chancellor of the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji; and New Zealand's High Commissioner to India and Bangladesh and Ambassador to Nepal between 1975 and 1978.^[1][2]

Colin Aikman CBE
Born	Colin Campbell Aikman (1919-08-24)24 August 1919
Died	22 December 2002(2002-12-22) (aged 83)
Citizenship	New Zealand

He reported on the Nuremberg trials for the New Zealand government^[3] and spoke for New Zealand at the UN when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted.^[4]

Aikman was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977.^[5] In the 1990 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to law and education.^[6]

Aikman's daughter, Helen Aikman (6 December 1955 – 8 January 2012) was a Queen's Counsel.^[7][8]