Lawyer profiles

• How anti-Apartheid protests sparked triathlete’s legal ambition

  It’s a tense couple of weeks for Sasha Daniels – senior in-house lawyer at Spark and nephew of South Africa’s most influential lawyer – before he finds out if he is one of the top corporate counsel in the world.Having won the Asia/Pacific award in Hong Kong in March,…

• Pathways in the Law: Oceanlaw New Zealand

  Practising marine law is not for the faint-hearted or those that wish to spend their day stuck behind an office desk.In this area of law, that desk is more like a dinghy constantly moving, in sync with the ebb and flow of the sea.The small team of lawyers at…

• Waipuk’s high-flying Maserati girl “only a lawyer”

  She may have graduated with what she dubs a “plain old vanilla LLB”, disappointed…

• Why the Paisley Snail matters to law firm’s bottle-collecting chairman

  Blenheim-born bottle-collecting musician Paul Beverley was living in a 17th century cottage and waitering…

• NEW IN THE LAW: Hannah Reuben, Solicitor, McCarthy Law, Blenheim

  Growing up in Rangiora, North Canterbury with her younger brother, Hannah Reuben attended Southbrook…

• Ismail Rasheed’s fascinating path to tax law specialist

  Coming from the remote Maldives in the Indian Ocean motivated a Wellington-based immigrant lawyer…

Obituaries

• Richard Barton Rainey, OBE, 1929–2017

  Retired Nelson lawyer Richard Barton Rainey, who died on 14 April, will be remembered as a community spirited man, who was as passionate about singing as he was to practising law.It was perhaps symbolic and testament to his character that he should pass away on Good Friday.Richard Rainey was…

• Judge Bruce Palmer, 1935 - 2017

  In Court he was affectionately known as Judge “Paragraph” Palmer. Behind the bench where he resided for some 27 years, he will be remembered as a thorough man, a stickler for details who always read all of the evidence word for word that was being presented before his court…

• Roland Patrick Towle, 1924 - 2017

  Retired lawyer Roland Patrick Towle, better known as Pat, died on 22 March 2017,…

• Paul Julian Treadwell OBE, QC (New Hebrides) 1930 - 2017

  Former practitioner Paul Treadwell died on 15 March 2017 aged 86.Paul Treadwell was born…

• Alistair Richard John Bowers, 1965 - 2017

  Nelson lawyer Alistair Bowers died on 6 March 2017 in an accident. He was…

• Alister FitzGerald Macalister QSM, 1922 - 2017

  Alister Macalister, who died on 25 January 2017 aged 94, spent all his practising…