Lawyer profiles

• Childhood murder trial prompted career of defence work

  His grandfather’s trial and acquittal for murder sparked an early awareness in Wellington Public Defender Brett Crowley which developed into a lifetime of criminal defence work.“When I was a young lad in Cairns my grandfather was charged with murder,” he says.“He was a doctor in Cairns. The Crown successfully…

• The Law & I - Morgan Evans

  Morgan Evans graduated from Victoria University of Wellington in 2016 with a BA / LLB, majoring in political science and international relations. After a year overseas backpacking, he returned to New Zealand and started work in Buddle Findlay’s commercial litigation and insolvency team in early 2018.When he's not working,…

• Circuit-breaking reflection triggers back-pocket CPD opportunity

  After lawyering in New Zealand and Australia for nine years, Sarah Alderson recently returned…

• The Law & I - George Grainger

  I’m an in-house legal counsel in the Legal & Risk team at Wellington City…

• One man’s Celtic Crusade …

  Jock Anderson is familiar to many lawyers from his long career as a court…

• Law firm tips the scales and takes out gender diversity award

  It’s a significant achievement when a law firm gains a major award for gender…

Obituaries

• Emeritus Professor Brian Coote CBE, FRSNZ, 1929 - 2019

  Emeritus Professor Brian Coote CBE FRSNZ died on 15 July 2019, aged 89.Professor Coote taught generations of law students at the University of Auckland between 1961 and his retirement at the end of 1994. He was himself a graduate of the Auckland College of the University of New Zealand,…

• Bruce Leslie Stanley, 1929 - 2019

  This eulogy was delivered at Bruce Stanley’s funeral at St Augustine's Anglican Church, Cashmere, Christchurch on 14 June 2019.Bruce died at twenty-five past three on Saturday afternoon, June 8th. He would have been 90 on the twenty-fifth of this month.If you listen - carefully, very carefully - you would…

• Renée Kate Emere Riddell-Garner, 1974 - 2019

  Wellington-based barrister, Renée Riddell-Garner died on 18 May 2019. It was unexpected in that…

• Trevor Albert de Cleene OBE, 1932 - 2001

  Barrister and former MP Trevor de Cleene died in Tauranga on 22 April 2001…

• Judge Robert (Bob) Lindsay Kerr, 1939 - 2019

  Retired District Court Judge Robert Kerr who died on 18 May will be remembered…

• Hon Sir Robert Grant Hammond KNZM, 1944 - 2019

  Lawyer, law teacher, legal writer, law reformer and judge. Sir Grant Hammond’s career saw…