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Cyril Redmond McGinley, 1910 - 2001

One of the last solicitors in New Zealand to have trained by correspondence rather than university died in Greymouth recently. Cyril Redmond McGinley, who retired from pioneer law firm Hannan & Seddon at age 86, died just before his 91st birthday. Born in 1910, Cyril McGinley joined the firm as an…
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Herman Strauss, 1907 – 2001

Long-serving Bell Gully partner Herman Strauss died on 26 May 2001 aged 94. Born in Germany, Dr Strauss originally graduated Doctor of Jurisprudence at Wuerzburg and qualfied in Germany in 1932. In 1951 he was called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn and admitted in Kenya in 1953. Having emigrated to New…
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Kenneth Edwin Wardill, MB BS, DTM&H RCP and RCS, CRCS, FRCS, FRACS, LLM, 1927 – 2001

Former Hamilton barrister Kenneth Wardill, who died on 26 November 2001, was unusual in that he came to the law late in life after a long career in medicine. Born in England on 16 September 1927, he was educated at Dulwich College, London, Lodge School, Barbardos and Upper Canada College in…
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Trevor Albert de Cleene, 1932 - 2001

Barrister and former MP Trevor de Cleene died in Tauranga on 22 April 2001 aged 68. Born in Palmerston North on 24 March 1933 to William and Mary de Cleene, he was educated at Palmerston North Boys’ High School. His family was not well off and his childhood was marked by…
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Dr Colin Aikman, 1919 - 2002

One of New Zealand’s most distinguished jurists, Dr Colin Aikman, died in Wellington in December 2002. Dr Aikman, who had an LLM from Victoria University and PhD from the London School of Economics, worked for the Department of External Affairs, the forerunner to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, between…
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Colonel Graeme Burnet MacKenzie Law MBE, 1933 – 2003

Former chief executive of the Council of Legal Education and retired army colonel, Graeme Law MBE, died in Wellington on 11 September 2003 following a short illness. Colonel Law completed a BA/LLB at Victoria University in the 1950s while serving in the Territorials. After practising in Wellington, he joined the regular…
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Captain Eric Deane OBE, 1936 – 2003

Former Director of Standards for the New Zealand Law Society, Captain Eric Deane OBE, died of cancer at the end of August. Eric gained his legal qualifications while in the Navy, often studying in difficult conditions while on service at sea, and later served as the first full-time Director of Legal…
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Rt Hon Francis Duncan O’Flynn QC, 1918 - 2003

Former Labour Party Defence Minister Frank O’Flynn QC, BA, LLB, LLM, died on 18 October 2003 aged 84. Instrumental in developing New Zealand’s nuclear-free policies, Mr O’Flynn was also the first (and only) lawyer to sue National Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon successfully on behalf of a client – Mr Muldoon…
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Sir (James) Peter Quilliam, 1920 – 2004

Former High Court Judge Sir Peter Quilliam died in Wellington on 17 February 2004. Born into a legal family, Sir Peter graduated LLB in 1943 and worked as a barrister and Crown solicitor in his home town of New Plymouth until appointed to the Supreme Court (later High Court) bench in…
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Richard Kearney, 1930 - 2005

Richard Kearney, 1930 - 2005

Former District Court Judge and Waitangi Tribunal member Richard Kearney died in Tauranga on 27 March 2005. Against advice and despite having a wife and three children to support, Richard Kearney began to study law part-time at the age of 27. Shortly after qualifying he joined the Gisborne firm of Woodward…
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Judge Karina Raewyn Koimata Williams, 1962 - 2005

Manukau District Court Judge Karina Williams died on 2 September 2005 following a short illness. Two years before, she became only the second Maori woman to become a District Court judge when she was sworn in on 4 September 2003. After her education at St Cuthbert’s College and Auckland University, Karina…
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Lord Cooke of Thorndon, 1926 - 2006

Lord Cooke of Thorndon, 1926 - 2006

Lord Robin Cooke.Robin Brunskill Cooke, Lord Cooke of Thorndon, the only New Zealand judge to have sat in the House of Lords, died in Wellington on the night of 30-31 August 2006. Considered by many to be New Zealand's greatest jurist, Lord Cooke was made a life peer in 1996 and…
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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…
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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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