Richard Gibbons Hall, 1939 - 2006

Richard Hall’s wit, his facility with words both written and spoken, his skill in the law and concern for clients, were among the attributes remembered at a celebration of his life at the Masterton Town Hall in February 2006. Richard Peterson, who knew Mr Hall when both were law students at…

Shane Jervis Treadwell, 1923 - 2006

By Don McCulloch and Richard Kemp Shane Treadwell’s recent sudden death was a great shock to his family and close friends because immediately prior to his death he appeared to be particularly fit and in good health, especially for one approaching 83 years in age. For many years, until his retirement as…

Marion Thomson, 1911 - 2007

Life member of Otago Women Lawyers’ Society (OWLS), Marion Thomson, died on Thursday 1 March 2007 aged 95, the day before the Ethel Benjamin Commemorative Address, which she had hoped, as usual, to attend. Although she had retired from practice some time before OWLS was formed, Marion Thomson was a great…

Kenneth Gordon Stone, 1942 - 2008

Wellington Crown Solicitor Ken Stone died on 1 February 2008, aged 65. He died of cancer, eight years after the disease was first diagnosed and just weeks before he was due to retire on 31 March following 38 years' service with Luke, Cunningham and Clere, after 19 years as Crown…

John Frederick (“Jack”) Northey, 1920 - 1983

Dean of the faculty of law at Auckland University, Professor John Frederick Northey, who died at the age of 63 in October 1983, gave more than three decades of service to the law school he joined as senior lecturer in 1951. The man who in 1971 became the first person to…

Kenneth Harold James Headifen QSO, 1921 - 1992

Kenneth Headifen, a former Christchurch and Nelson District Court Judge, died at his Nelson home in December 1992 aged 71. At the time of his retirement in 1987, Judge Headifen, QSO, was the longest-serving of all District Court judges, having been on the bench 24 years. Wellington-born and educated, Mr Headifen practised…

Justice Ralph Wylie, 1930 – 1992

By Colin Averill Members of the profession, particularly those who practised with him in Christchurch, will have learnt with sadness of the passing of Mr Justice Ralph Wylie, who died on Monday 11 May 1992 in Auckland following a short illness. He was aged 62. The late Judge was born in Geraldine.…

Nowell Montgomerie Izard, 1907 - 1992

Former magistrate Nowell Montgomerie Izard died in Wellsford recently, aged 85. He was appointed a magistrate in 1958 and began on the Bench in Christchurch. Wanganui born and educated, Mr Izard studied for bachelors and masters degrees in law at Cambridge University in Britain and was admitted to the Bar in 1929. He…

Stanley Tong CBE, 1900 - 1993

By Richard Caughey Stanley Tong (known as Stan Tong to his friends) died at Auckland on 12 September 1993 aged 92, a day before his 93rd birthday. Stan was elected President of the New Zealand Law Society in 1971, an office he held for 3 years. Her Majesty The Queen awarded…

Sir Alexander Turner, 1901 - 1993

Sir Alexander Turner, a former President of the Court of Appeal, died in Auckland earlier this month, aged 91. After his retirement as Court President in 1973, Sir Alexander, KBE, kept a critical eye on government legislation. Born in Auckland in 1901, he attended Auckland Grammar School and Auckland University before graduating…