Lawyer profiles

• Slow-cooking military enthusiast fears loss of courtroom history

  A clash between retaining Christchurch courtroom history and sterile “new build” courts has Canterbury lawyers up in arms, with one warning against reducing the courts to “a formica table.”There is no place in a new Christchurch justice precinct for the High Court’s 150-year-old dais, nor is there deemed to…

• A lawyer's life by the Whanganui river

  James Coleman (better known as ‘Jim’), Consultant with Treadwell Gordon. What made you decide to become a lawyer and how did you come to practice in Whanganui?My grandfather, great uncle, and father were all lawyers so it seemed to be the thing to do. I didn’t want to do…

• Film buff and miner’s son probes New Zealand’s rugby obsession

  He claims to know the dialogue of Casablanca backwards, but in his latest challenge…

• NEW IN THE LAW: Shaun Burmester, WCM Legal, Wellington

  Shaun Burmester grew up in Tauranga with his sister and parents. They lived on…

• Lion Red man finds ordinary life in foreign supermarkets

  When Commerce Commission principal competition lawyer and vinyl record buff David Blacktop went out…

• Former Russell McVeagh solicitor, full-time windsurfer

  Born in Auckland to a French mother and an Italian father, Antonio Cozzolino spent…

Obituaries

• John Te Manihera Chadwick MNZM, 1945 - 2017

  Many communities, including the legal profession, lost a leader and guiding light with the death of Rotorua lawyer John Chadwick on 26 May 2017.The last Māori law graduate of the 1960s still in practice, he was the founder of Te Hunga Rōia Māori o Aotearoa, the Māori Law Society.“John…

• 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…

• 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…