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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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