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…

Charles Stewart Thomas OBE, 1889 – 1988

Charles Stewart Thomas OBE, a well-known Christchurch criminal lawyer and past President of the Canterbury District Law Society, died in April 1988 at the age of 99. Brian McClelland QC, a former “pupil” of Mr Thomas, delivered the following address at a special sitting of the High Court in Christchurch on…

John Herman von Dadelszen, 1913 - 1988

John Herman von Dadelszen, a highly respected Hawke’s Bay practitioner, died in Hastings on 5 July 1988 aged 75, after over 50 years’ practice of law. Mr von Dadelszen was President of the Hawke’s Bay District Law Society in 1965 and 1966 but had also served the community in a variety…

James Hugh Cassidy Larsen, 1935 - 1989

By Colin Clere Jim Larsen served as Crown Prosecutor for the Wellington District from 1969 until his death from cancer on 31 March 1989, at the age of 53. He was born in Levin on 25 April 1935, and educated at Horowhenua College and Victoria University of Wellington. Jim excelled at debating and…

Derrick McLeod, 1925 – 1990

The son of high country sheep farmers, Derrick McLeod was born in Timaru in 1925. He attended Timaru Boys’ High School where he was a member of the 1st Cricket XI which he captained for two years, and played representative cricket at sub-union level. In his final year at school…

Sir Campbell Wylie, 1905 - 1992

Former Commonwealth Judge Sir Campbell Wylie has died in Auckland, aged 87. Born in Dannevirke on 14 May 1905 and educated there, then at Auckland Grammar School and Victoria University in Wellington, Sir Campbell graduated in law in 1928 and practised at Kaikohe until the Second World War. He served in the…

Frank Wong, 1950 – 1992

Frank Wong, an experienced international negotiator for the Ministry of External Relations and Trade, has died in Wellington aged 41. Born in Gisborne, Frank attended Gisborne Boys’ High School, and graduated LLB(Hons) from Auckland University in 1973. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1974, and began in the ministry’s Legal…