List of King's and Queen's Counsel in New Zealand
The office of King's Counsel was established in New Zealand in 1907.[1] During the reign of a male sovereign, appointees are called King's Counsel, and this applied from 1907 to 1952 during the reign of Edward VII (1907–1910),[2] George V (1910–1936),[3] Edward VIII (1936),[4] and George VI (1936–1952).[5] During the reign of a female sovereign, appointees are called Queen's Counsel; this applies to appointments made since Elizabeth II ascended the throne in 1952. Forty-three King's Counsel had been appointed before 1952.[6]
Appointments in New Zealand can be made annually by the Governor-General acting on behalf of the sovereign. Recommendations are made by the Attorney-General with concurrence by the Chief Justice.[1] When the first ten appointments were made in June 1907 by Chief Justice Robert Stout, two were from Auckland, four were from Wellington, two were from Christchurch, and two were from Dunedin.[7] The first King's Counsel to die was Thomas Joynt on 5 September 1907, less than three months after his appointment;[8] Joynt had been the senior member of the bar in the country.[7]
Of the 108 years since 1907 (as of 2015), there have been 40 years in which no appointments were made.[9] There have been 282 office holders so far.[10]
List of office holders
The following is a complete list of the office holders, based on the list maintained by the Crown Law Office[11] plus one person (Claude Weston) who, according to the Law Society, is missing on the official list.[9]
Name | Year appointed | Location |
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John George Findlay | 1907 | |
Thomas Joynt | 1907 | |
Martin Chapman | 1907 | |
Joseph Tole | 1907 | |
Francis Bell | 1907 | |
John Hosking | 1907 | |
Saul Solomon | 1907 | |
Thomas Walter Stringer | 1907 | |
Charles Skerrett | 1907 | |
Frederick Baume | 1907 | |
John Fraser Macqueen Fraser | 1910 | |
Thomas Cotter | 1911 | |
John Salmond | 1912 | |
Frederick Earl | 1912 | |
Alexander Gray | 1912 | |
Charles Bruce Morison | 1912 | |
John Ranken Reed | 1912 | |
Frederick Wilding | 1913 | |
Samuel George Raymond | 1913 | |
William Cunningham MacGregor | 1915 | |
Oliver Samuel | 1919 | |
Michael Myers | 1922 | |
Henry Hubert Ostler | 1925 | |
Arthur Fair | 1925 | |
Thomas Wilford | 1929 | |
Harold Featherston Johnston | 1930 | |
Alfred Charles Hanlon | 1930 | |
Alexander Howat Johnstone | 1934 | |
John Callan | 1934 | |
Henry Havelock Cornish | 1934 | |
Claude Weston | 1934 | |
Humphrey O'Leary | 1936 | |
Philip Brunskill Cooke | 1936 | |
Wilfrid Joseph Sim | 1939 | |
Herbert Edgar Evans | 1946 | |
Rex Mason | 1946 | |
John O'Shea | 1946 | |
Ossie Mazengarb | 1947 | |
Alfred Kingsley North | 1947 | |
Alfred George Neill | 1950 | |
Howard Parris Richmond | 1952 | |
Leonard Poulter Leary | 1952 | |
Alexander Kingcome Turner | 1952 | |
Clifton Webb | 1954 | |
Vincent Robert Sissons Meredith | 1957 | |
Richard Wild | 1957 | |
Reginald Hardie Boys | 1958 | |
Arthur Lance Tompkins | 1958 | |
John Nigel Wilson | 1958 | |
Frederick Campbell Spratt | 1961 | |
Ronald Davison | 1963 | |
Robin Cooke | 1964 | |
Charles Pierrepont Hutchinson | 1964 | |
Edgar Stirling Bowie | 1965 | |
David Stuart Beattie | 1965 | |
Muir Fitzherbert Chilwell | 1965 | |
John Charles White | 1966 | |
Peter Gordon Hillyer | 1967 | |
Frank O'Flynn | 1968 | |
Lloyd William Brown | 1968 | |
Graham Crossley | 1970 | |
Laurence Henry Southwick | 1970 | |
Richard Christopher Savage | 1970 | |
Paul Basil Temm | 1971 | |
Peter Mahon | 1971 | |
Maurice James O'Brien | 1971 | |
Richard Ian Barker | 1973 | |
Martyn Finlay | 1973 | |
Robert Whaley Edgley | 1973 | |
William Stuart Shires | 1973 | |
Harold Stewart Lusk | 1973 | |
Edward Somers | 1973 | |
David Lance Tompkins | 1974 | |
John Wallace | 1974 | |
Brinsley Donald Inglis | 1976 | |
Maxwell Helier Vautier | 1976 | |
Brian McClelland | 1976 | |
Robert Alexander Adams-Smith | 1978 | |
Rodney Gerald Gallen | 1978 | |
Thomas Eichelbaum | 1978 | |
Peter George Spenser Penlington | 1978 | |
Robert Phillip Smellie | 1979 | |
Colin Maurice Nicholson | 1979 | |
John Henry | 1980 | |
Daniel Paul Neazor | 1981 | |
Robert Alan Houston | 1981 | |
Anthony Hearn | 1981 | |
Richard John Craddock | 1981 | |
Edmund Thomas | 1981 | |
Anthony Arthur Travers Ellis | 1981 | |
Simon Grant Lockhart | 1982 | |
John Edward Shepherd Allen | 1983 | |
Peter Maxwell Salmon | 1983 | |
Christopher Barrie Atkinson | 1983 | |
David Baragwanath | 1983 | |
Thomas Gault | 1984 | |
Robert Andrew McGechan | 1984 | |
Anthony Molloy | 1984 | |
Ralph Edwin Wylie | 1985 | |
Colin Ross Pidgeon | 1985 | |
Graeme Roderick Joyce | 1985 | |
Robert Lloyd Fisher | 1985 | |
Donald Lindsay Mathieson | 1986 | |
John Alexander Lemon Gibson | 1986 | |
Michael Anthony Bungay | 1986 | |
James Alfred Farmer | 1986 | |
Noel Anderson | 1986 | |
Alan Lough Hassall | 1987 | |
Gerald Stewart Tuohy | 1987 | |
Peter Williams | 1987 | |
David Arthur Rhodes Williams | 1987 | |
Alan Raymand Galbraith | 1987 | |
John Joseph McGrath | 1987 | |
Peter John Harden Jenkin | 1988 | |
Douglas John White | 1988 | |
Sian Elias | 1988 | |
Colin Stuart Withnall | 1988 | |
Lowell Goddard | 1988 | |
Michael Henry Walkinton Lance | 1988 | |
Hugh Williams | 1988 | |
Walter Iles | 1989 | |
John Arthur Laurenson | 1989 | |
Nigel Hampton | 1989 | |
George Patterson Barton | 1990 | |
Stephen Pendrill Charles | 1990 | |
Colin Robert Carruthers | 1990 | |
Leslie Herrick Atkins | 1990 | |
John Gerard Fogarty | 1990 | |
Paul Thomas Cavanagh | 1991 | |
John Oswald Upton | 1991 | |
Michael Robert Camp | 1991 | |
Anthony Alan Lusk | 1991 | |
Julian Grosvenor Miles | 1991 | |
William Young | 1991 | |
Robert Chambers | 1992 | |
Raynor John Asher | 1992 | |
Raymond Bruce Squire | 1992 | |
Barry John Paterson | 1993 | |
John Richard Wild | 1993 | |
John Haigh | 1993 | |
John Maurice Priestley | 1994 | |
Rodney Eric Harrison | 1994 | |
Graham Panckhurst | 1994 | |
Rhys Harrison | 1994 | |
John Francis Lyons | 1994 | |
Frank Hortin Callaway | 1994 | |
David Shavin | 1994 | |
Kenneth Keith | 1994 | |
Christopher Ardagh McVeigh | 1995 | |
Gary James Judd | 1995 | |
Rodney Harold Hansen | 1995 | |
Heughan Bassett Rennie | 1995 | |
Bradley Harle Giles | 1995 | |
Michael Privett Reed | 1995 | |
Judith Ablett Kerr | 1995 | |
Paul East | 1995 | |
Charles Augustine Sweeney | 1995 | |
Stuart Bruce Walton Grieve | 1996 | |
Bill Wilson | 1996 | |
Tony Randerson | 1996 | |
Austin John Forbes | 1996 | |
Nicholas Richard William Davidson | 1996 | |
John Richard Billington | 1996 | |
Paul Joseph Davison | 1996 | |
Denese Rosemary Bates | 1996 | |
Howard Carisbrooke Keyte | 1997 | |
John Grayson Rowan | 1997 | |
David McCaw Wilson | 1997 | |
Lynton Laurence Stevens | 1997 | |
Terence Arnold | 1997 | |
Brendan William Francis Brown | 1997 | |
Helen Ann Cull | 1997 | |
Kevin Ryan | 1998 | |
Christopher John Hodson | 1998 | |
Ian Ronald Millard | 1998 | |
Royden John Somerville | 1998 | |
Robert John Katz | 1998 | |
Anthony Cuthbert Hughes-Johnson | 1998 | |
Robert Andrew Dobson | 1998 | |
Ailsa Patricia Duffy | 1998 | |
Paul Robert Heath | 1998 | |
Michael John Behrens | 1999 | |
Noel Wallace Ingram | 1999 | |
Rodger Phillip George Haines | 1999 | |
Christopher Holden Toogood | 1999 | |
Kristy Pearl McDonald | 1999 | |
Thomas Crowley Weston | 1999 | |
Peter Donald McKenzie | 2000 | |
Viviene Heath Ullrich | 2000 | |
David Brian Collins | 2000 | |
Paul Gerard Mabey | 2000 | |
David McGee | 2000 | |
Bruce Stewart | 2000 | |
Mark Leslie Smith Cooper | 2000 | |
George Edwin Tanner | 2002 | |
Richard Spencer Clarke | 2002 | |
Peter Frederick Arthur Woodhouse | 2002 | |
Andrew Hawksworth Brown | 2002 | |
Donald Leslie Stevens | 2002 | |
Robert Fortescue Fardell | 2002 | |
Edwin David Wylie | 2002 | |
Anne Elizabeth Hinton | 2002 | |
Mary Therese Scholtens | 2002 | |
Maureen Jeanette Southwick | 2003 | |
Grant Maxwell Illingworth | 2003 | |
Philip James Morgan | 2003 | |
David John Goddard | 2003 | |
Michael Grant Ring | 2004 | |
Harry Waalkens | 2004 | |
Miriam Rose Dean | 2004 | |
Francis Morland Robin Cooke | 2004 | |
Tómas Williamson Harper Kennedy-Grant | 2005 | |
Helen Mary Aikman | 2005 | |
David Paul Hearmon Jones | 2005 | |
John Frederick Burrows | 2005 | |
Brian Paul Keene | 2006 | |
Bruce Dwight Gray | 2006 | |
John Livingston Marshall | 2007 | |
Bruce Andrew Corkill | 2007 | |
Matthew Eugene Casey | 2007 | |
Stephen John Mills | 2007 | |
Robert Macrae Lithgow | 2007 | |
John Stephen Kós | 2007 | |
Christopher Thomas Gudsell | 2007 | |
Susan Wendy Hughes | 2007 | |
Nicholas Allen Till | 2007 | |
Deborah Anne Tohill Hollings Chambers | 2007 | |
Campbell Alan McLachlan | 2007 | |
Karen Louise Clark | 2007 | |
Geoffrey Palmer | 2008 | |
David Jonathan Heaney | 2008 | |
Murray Gilbert | 2008 | |
Jack Edward Hodder | 2008 | |
Marion Jan McCartney | 2008 | |
Simon John Eisdell Moore | 2008 | |
Judith Christine Gordon | 2008 | |
Chris Finlayson | 2012 | |
Michael Richard Heron | 2012 | |
Philip Humphrey Brett Hall | 2013 | Christchurch |
Terence George Stapleton | 2013 | Wellington |
Richard James Buxton Fowler | 2013 | Wellington |
Simon Robert Jefferson | 2013 | Auckland |
Trevor John Shiels | 2013 | Dunedin |
Paul Edmund Dacre | 2013 | Auckland |
Russell Fairbrother | 2013 | Napier |
Frances Mary Joychild | 2013 | Auckland |
Nathan Stanley Gedye | 2013 | Auckland |
Peter Bruce Churchman | 2013 | Wellington |
Peter George Watts | 2013 | Auckland |
Justin Bane MacRae Smith | 2013 | Wellington |
Graham Kohler | 2013 | Auckland |
Matthew Alexander Muir | 2013 | Auckland |
Gillian Mary Coumbe | 2013 | Auckland |
Leslie John Taylor | 2013 | Wellington |
Kathryn Gail Davenport | 2013 | Auckland |
Matthew Nicholas Dunning | 2013 | Auckland |
Philip George Skelton | 2013 | Auckland |
David John Chisholm | 2013 | Auckland |
John Chester Pike | 2013 | Wellington |
Christine Mary Meechan | 2013 | Auckland |
Clive Lincoln Elliott | 2013 | Auckland |
Jonathan Heyward McDouall Eaton | 2013 | Christchurch |
Daniel Hugh McLellan | 2013 | Auckland |
Neil Ross Campbell | 2013 | Auckland |
Russell Bartlett | 2014 | Auckland |
Stephen Bonnar | 2014 | Auckland |
Paul David | 2014 | Auckland |
Marie Dyhrberg | 2014 | Auckland |
Antonia Fisher | 2014 | Auckland |
Paul Rishworth | 2014 | Auckland |
Paul Wicks | 2014 | Auckland |
Prudence Steven | 2014 | Christchurch |
Peter Whiteside | 2014 | Christchurch |
Anita Chan | 2014 | Dunedin |
David Laurenson | 2014 | Auckland |
Matthew McClelland | 2014 | Wellington |
Matthew Palmer | 2014 | Wellington |
Paul Radich | 2014 | Wellington |
Margaret Casey | 2015 | Auckland |
Mark O'Brien | 2015 | Wellington |
Richard Boast | 2015 | Wellington |
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