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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Mary Moir Hussey, 1909 - 1993

Those who knew Mary Moir Hussey who died aged 83 in Dunedin at the beginning of 1993 say she would have been horrified at the thought of people making a fuss in public about her. “She was a woman of extraordinary shyness and reserve. She preferred to stand in the shadow,…
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Roger Lloyd Maclaren, 1935 - 1993

Roger Lloyd Maclaren, appointed as a District Court Judge in December 1992, died in Auckland in June 1993, aged 58. Judge Maclaren was born in Christchurch in 1935. He graduated LLB from Canterbury University in 1959 and was admitted to the bar in 1960. In 1976 he went into practice as…
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Michael Anthony Bungay QC, 1934 - 1993

Michael Anthony Bungay QC, 1934 - 1993

A reflection by Gary Turkington In a quiet moment, I draw together my thoughts of Michael Bungay QC, advocate, friend, wit, writer, lover, raconteur – he was all those things and more. In an instant "gone down to the tongueless silence of the dreamless dust." So a reflection perhaps, before moving to…
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John Hamilton Hall, 1925 - 1994

Judge John Hamilton Hall, formerly a permanent judge of the Otahuhu District Court, died in Auckland in April 1994 aged 68. Born in Carterton and educated at Wellington College and Victoria University of Wellington, he later joined the British Colonial Service, holding various posts in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) in the 1950s…
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Eric Hogg, 1897 - 1994

Former Wellington lawyer and honorary life member of the Wellington District Law Society, Eric Hogg, died in January 1994 aged 96. A Wellington College pupil and graduate of Victoria University of Wellington, Mr Hogg began legal practice with the firm of Luke and Kennedy in 1920. In 1928 he went into…
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