Joseph Hector Garrick (Sydney, New South Wales, 8 December 1846[1] — 23 February 1908[2]), was an Australian lawyer who served as a judge on the benches of the Kingdom of Viti, the first Fijian nation-state.
[3] Having arrived in 1873, Garrick was associated with the events leading up to the cession of the islands to the United Kingdom in 1874.
[4] Following cession, Garrick was appointed Chief Police Magistrate and Registrar General on 1 September 1875.
After retiring from government service, he continued to practice Law privately in Levuka, and was still doing so as of 1889.
[11][12] Garrick subsequently remarried to Milne in Sydney 1881; he had two more children with her — Godfrey Ernest and Gladys Neville.