The Litigation FunderLast Year – 25Litigation funding has been a hot topic for some time and with his company LPF Litigation being the high profile operation that has funded cases major cases and the Law Commission’s report this year has recommended its acceptance as a key factor in permitting access to justice, but subject to […]
Former Attorney GeneralLast Year – 15The publication of his latest book has helped ensure that former Attorney General Chris Finlayson has not slipped away quietly into the night, but rather remained an observant and occasionally acerbic observer of matters both legal and political.His second book, \’Yes, Minister\’ established what most already knew, that he was
Legal LeaderLast Year – 4Tiana Epati’s impact on the profession as Law Society president was such that her impact continues, heightened by the debacle involving her successor Jacque Lethbridge\’s resignation as NZLS president.To quote from a profile piece in Woman Magazine:“The reason the president of the New Zealand Law Society – and LawFuel’s 2019 Lawyer
Eminence GrisLast Year – 16Although the ‘eminence gris’ of the New Zealand bar had slipped to 16th position last year from 9 the year earlier, the death of Her Majesty and the issues around New Zealand\’s constitutional status see us turn to his cast iron constitutional knowledge that appears to know no bounds places him
Top Legal PowerLast Year – 3As Solicitor General, is not only head of Crown Law’s 180 staff but also the ‘‘professional head’’ of more than 800 lawyers employed by the government’s various departments, ministries and agencies she has a power role both from a legislative and a legal leadership perspective a role she told barristers
Last Year – 49 A long time Bar leader and one of the country’s most experienced and capable litigators, Jim Farmer KC continues to live a busy professional life that would put paid to many litigators half his age. Suggestions of taking things quietly are readily refuted with a busy caseload, albeit perhaps more measured
Business leaderNew EntrantPaul Majurey has been at logger heads with newly elected Auckland mayor Wayne Brown, who has sought his and his board’s resignation of the Auckland Council’s property arm.But Majurey, of law firm Atkins Holm Majurey, has not bowed at time of publication to any such request. A new entrant to the power list
