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 Elizabeth II's reign (February 1952 – September 2022), new appointees were called Queen's Counsel and living King's Counsel became Queen's Counsel.[6] Forty-three King's Counsel had been appointed before 1952.[7] When King Charles III ascended the throne on 9 September 2022 (New Zealand Time), living Queen's Counsel automatically became King's Counsel.

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 Sir Robert Stout, two were from Auckland, four were from Wellington, two were from Christchurch, and two were from Dunedin.[8] The first King's Counsel to die was Thomas Joynt on 5 September 1907, less than three months after his appointment;[9] Joynt had been the senior member of the bar in the country.[8]

Of the 108 years since 1907 (as of 2015), there have been 40 years in which no appointments were made.[10] There have been 364 warrant holders so far.[11][12]

The first women appointed to the office were Sian Elias and Lowell Goddard in 1988.

List of office holders

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The following is a complete list of the office holders, based on the list maintained by the Crown Law Office[13] plus one person (Claude Weston) who, according to the Law Society, is missing on the official list.[10] Another person who is missing from the official list is Justice Warwick Gendall, who took silk in June 1996[14] and was appointed to the High Court later that year.[15]

Name Portrait Year appointed Location
Frederick Baume 1907 Auckland
Francis Bell 1907 Wellington
Martin Chapman 1907 Wellington
John Findlay 1907 Wellington
John Hosking 1907 Dunedin
Thomas Joynt 1907 Christchurch
Charles Skerrett 1907 Wellington
Saul Solomon 1907 Dunedin
Walter Stringer 1907 Christchurch
Joseph Tole 1907 Auckland
John F. M. Fraser 1910 Dunedin
Thomas Cotter 1911 Auckland
Fred Earl 1912 Auckland
Alexander Gray 1912 Wellington
Charles Morison 1912 Wellington
John Reed 1912 Auckland
John Salmond 1912 Wellington
George Raymond 1913 Christchurch
Frederick Wilding 1913 Christchurch
William MacGregor 1915 Dunedin
Oliver Samuel 1919 New Plymouth
Michael Myers 1922 Wellington
Hubert Ostler 1925 Auckland[16]
Arthur Fair 1925 Wellington
Thomas Wilford 1929 Wellington
Alf Hanlon 1930 Dunedin
Harold Johnston 1930 Wellington
John Callan 1934 Dunedin
Alexander Johnstone 1934[17] Auckland
Claude Weston 1934 Wellington
Henry Cornish 1934 Wellington
Humphrey O'Leary 1935 Wellington
Philip Cooke 1936 Wellington
Wilfrid Sim 1939[17] Christchurch
Herbert Evans 1946[17] Wellington
Rex Mason 1946[17] Auckland
John O'Shea 1946 Wellington
Ossie Mazengarb 1947[17] Wellington
Alfred North 1947[17] Auckland
Alf Neill 1950[17] Dunedin
Howard Richmond 1952 Auckland
Leonard Leary 1952 Auckland
Alexander Turner 1952 Auckland
Clifton Webb 1954 Auckland
Vincent Meredith 1957 Auckland
Richard Wild 1957 Wellington
Reginald Hardie Boys 1958 Auckland
Lance Tompkins 1958 Hamilton
Nigel Wilson 1958 Auckland
Campbell Spratt 1961 Wellington
Ronald Davison 1963 Wellington
Robin Cooke 1964 Wellington
Charles Hutchinson 1964 Auckland
Edgar Bowie 1965 Christchurch
David Beattie 1965 Auckland
Muir Chilwell 1965 Auckland
John White 1966 Wellington
Peter Hillyer 1967 Auckland
Frank O'Flynn 1968 Wellington
Lloyd Brown 1968 Auckland
Graham Crossley 1970 Palmerston North
Laurie Southwick 1970 Auckland
Richard Savage 1970
Paul Temm 1971
Peter Mahon 1971
Maurice O'Brien 1971
Ian Barker 1973
Martyn Finlay 1973
Bob Edgley 1973
Bill Shires 1973
Stewart Lusk 1973
Edward Somers 1973
David Tompkins 1974
John Wallace 1974
Don Inglis 1976
Maxwell Helier Vautier 1976
Brian McClelland 1976
Robert Alexander Adams-Smith 1978
Rodney Gallen 1978
Thomas Eichelbaum 1978
Peter Penlington 1978
Robert Smellie 1979
Colin Nicholson 1979
John Henry 1980
Paul Neazor 1981
Alan Houston 1981
Anthony Hearn 1981
Richard John Craddock 1981
Ted Thomas 1981
Anthony Arthur Travers Ellis 1981
Simon Grant Lockhart 1982
John Edward Shepherd Allen 1983
Peter Salmon 1983 Auckland
Barrie Atkinson 1983
David Baragwanath 1983
Thomas Gault 1984
Andrew McGechan 1984
Anthony Molloy 1984
Ralph Wylie 1985
Colin Pidgeon 1985 Auckland
Roderick Joyce 1985
Robert Fisher 1985 Hamilton
Don Mathieson 1986
John Gibson 1986
Mike Bungay 1986
James Farmer 1986 Auckland
Noel Anderson 1986
Alan Lough Hassall 1987
Gerald Stewart Tuohy 1987
Peter Williams 1987
David Williams 1987
Alan Galbraith 1987 Auckland
John McGrath 1987
Peter Jenkin 1988 Wellington
Douglas White 1988
Sian Elias 1988
Colin Stuart Withnall 1988
Lowell Goddard 1988
Michael Henry Walkinton Lance 1988
Hugh Williams 1988
Walter Iles 1989
John Laurenson 1989 New Plymouth
Nigel Hampton 1989 Christchurch
George Patterson Barton 1990
Stephen Pendrill Charles 1990
Colin Carruthers 1990
Les Atkins 1990 Palmerston North
John 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 Paterson 1993
John Wild 1993 Wellington
John Haigh 1993
John 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
Chris McVeigh 1995
Gary James Judd 1995
Rodney Hansen 1995
Hugh Rennie 1995
Bradley Harle Giles 1995
Michael Privett Reed 1995
Judith Ablett-Kerr 1995
Paul East 1995
Charles Augustine Sweeney 1995
Warwick Gendall 1996 Wellington
Stuart Bruce Walton Grieve 1996
Bill Wilson 1996
Tony Randerson 1996 Auckland
Austin Forbes 1996
Nick Davidson 1996
John Billington 1996
Paul Davison 1996
Denese Rosemary Bates 1996
Howard Carisbrooke Keyte 1997
John Grayson Rowan 1997
David McCaw Wilson 1997
Lyn Stevens 1997
Terence Arnold 1997
Brendan Brown 1997
Helen Ann Cull 1997
Kevin Ryan 1998
Christopher Hodson 1998
Ian Ronald Millard 1998
Royden Somerville 1998
Robert John Katz 1998
Tony Hughes-Johnson 1998
Robert Andrew Dobson 1998
Ailsa Patricia Duffy 1998
Paul Heath 1998
Michael John Behrens 1999
Noel Wallace Ingram 1999
Rodger Haines 1999
Kit Toogood 1999
Kristy McDonald 1999
Tom Weston 1999
Peter Donald McKenzie 2000
Viviene Heath Ullrich 2000
David Collins 2000
Paul Gerard Mabey 2000
David McGee 2000
Bruce Stewart 2000
Mark Cooper 2000
George Tanner 20 May 2002
Richard Clarke 20 May 2002
Peter Woodhouse 20 May 2002
Andrew Brown 20 May 2002
Donald Stevens 20 May 2002
Robert Fardell 20 May 2002
Edwin Wylie 20 May 2002
Anne Hinton 20 May 2002
Mary Scholtens 20 May 2002
Maureen Jeanette Southwick 2003
Grant Maxwell Illingworth 2003
Philip James Morgan 2003
David Goddard 2003
Michael Grant Ring 2004
Harry Waalkens 2004
Miriam Dean 2004
Francis Cooke 2004
Tómas Kennedy-Grant 2005
Helen Mary Aikman 2005
David Paul Hearmon Jones 2005
John Burrows 2005
Brian Paul Keene 2006
Bruce Dwight Gray 2006
John Marshall 2007
Bruce Andrew Corkill 2007
Matthew Eugene Casey 2007
Stephen John Mills 2007
Robert Macrae Lithgow 2007
Stephen Kós 2007
Christopher Thomas Gudsell 2007
Susan Wendy Hughes 2007
Nicholas Allen Till 2007
Deborah Chambers 2007
Campbell Alan McLachlan 2007
Karen Louise Clark 2007
Geoffrey Palmer 2008 Wellington
David Jonathan Heaney 2008
Murray Gilbert 2008
Jack Edward Hodder 2008
Marion Jan McCartney 2008
Simon Moore 2008 Auckland
Christine Gordon 2008
Chris Finlayson 2012
Michael Heron 2012
Philip Hall 16 May 2013 Christchurch
Terence Stapleton 16 May 2013 Wellington
Richard Fowler 16 May 2013 Wellington
Simon Jefferson 16 May 2013 Auckland
Trevor Shiels 16 May 2013 Dunedin
Paul Dacre 16 May 2013 Auckland
Russell Fairbrother 16 May 2013 Napier
Frances Joychild 16 May 2013 Auckland
Nathan Gedye 16 May 2013 Auckland
Peter Churchman 16 May 2013 Wellington
Peter Watts 16 May 2013 Auckland
Justin Smith 16 May 2013 Wellington
Graham Kohler 16 May 2013 Auckland
Matthew Muir 16 May 2013 Auckland
Gillian Coumbe 16 May 2013 Auckland
Les Taylor 16 May 2013 Wellington
Kate Davenport 16 May 2013 Auckland
Matthew Dunning 16 May 2013 Auckland
Philip Skelton 16 May 2013 Auckland
David Chisholm 16 May 2013 Auckland
John Pike 16 May 2013 Wellington
Christine Meechan 16 May 2013 Auckland
Clive Elliott 16 May 2013 Auckland
Jonathan Eaton 16 May 2013 Christchurch
Daniel McLellan 16 May 2013 Auckland
Neil Campbell 16 May 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
Derek Nolan[18] 2016 Auckland
Aaron Perkins[18] 2016 Auckland
Kieran Raftery[18] 2016 Auckland
David Bigio[18] 2016 Auckland
Jane Anderson[18] 2016 Auckland
Marc Corlett[18] 2016 Auckland
Vanessa Bruton[18] 2016 Auckland
Richard Raymond 2016 Christchurch
John Prebble[18] 2016 Wellington
Kenneth Johnston[18] 2016 Wellington
Victoria Casey[18] 2016 Wellington
Una Jagose[18] 2016 Wellington
John Dixon[19] 2017 Auckland
Suzanne Robertson[19] 2017 Auckland
Rachael Reed[19] 2017 Auckland
Paul Borich[19] 2017 Auckland
Adam Ross[19] 2017 Auckland
Jenny Cooper[19] 2017 Auckland
Simon Mount[19] 2017 Auckland
Andrew Barker[19] 2017 Auckland
Greg Blanchard[19] 2017 Auckland
Campbell Walker[19] 2017 Auckland
Grant Brittain[19] 2017 Tauranga
James Every-Palmer[19] 2017 Wellington
Tony Angelo[19] 2017 Wellington
Vivienne Crawshaw[20] 2018 Auckland
Paul Dale[20] 2018 Auckland
Maria Dew[20] 2018 Auckland
Bob Hollyman[20] 2018 Auckland
Andru Isac[20] 2018 Wellington
Fiona Guy Kidd[20] 2018 Invercargill
James Rapley[20] 2018 Christchurch
Belinda Sellars[20] 2018 Auckland
Anne Stevens[20] 2018 Dunedin
James Wilding[20] 2018 Christchurch
Stephen Hunter[21] 2019 Auckland
Julie-Anne Kincade[21] 2019 Auckland
Simon Foote[21] 2019 Auckland
Janet McLean[21] 2019 Auckland
Nicolette Levy[21] 2019 Wellington
Karen Feint[21] 2019 Wellington
Len Andersen[21] 2019 Dunedin
Jonathan Temm[21] 2019 Rotorua
Lynda Kearns[22] 2021 Auckland
Stephen McCarthy[22] 2021 Auckland
Ron Mansfield[22] 2021 Auckland
Laura O'Gorman[22] 2021 Auckland
Fletcher Pilditch[22] 2021 Auckland
Davey Salmon[22] 2021 Auckland
Greg Arthur[22] 2021 Wellington
Michael Colson[22] 2021 Wellington
Victoria Heine[22] 2021 Wellington
Kerryn Beaton[22] 2021 Christchurch
Catherine Cull[23] 2022 Northland
Bronwyn Carruthers[23] 2022 Auckland
Nicholas Chisnall[23] 2022 Auckland
David Cooper[23] 2022 Auckland
Tiffany Cooper[23] 2022 Auckland
Jason Goodall[23] 2022 Auckland
Simon Mitchell[23] 2022 Auckland
Andrew Butler[23] 2022 Wellington
Stephanie Grieve[23] 2022 Christchurch
Lisa Preston[23] 2022 Christchurch
Judith Collins[24] 2023 Auckland
Philip Joseph[25] 2024 Christchurch
Philip Shamy[25] 2024 Christchurch
Todd Simmonds[25] 2024 Auckland
Robert Stewart[25] 2024 Auckland
Garry Williams[25] 2024 Auckland
Zane Kennedy[25] 2024 Auckland
Kelly Quinn[25] 2024 Auckland
Katherine Anderson[25] 2024 Auckland
Wendy Aldred[25] 2024 Wellington
Timothy Stephens[25] 2024 Wellington
Douglas Ewen[25] 2024 Wellington
Anne Toohey[25] 2024 Christchurch
Sarah Armstrong[25] 2024 Auckland
Christopher Stevenson[25] 2024 Wellington
Daniel Kalderimis[25] 2024 Wellington
Alanya Limmer[25] 2024 Christchurch
Sally Gepp[25] 2024 Nelson
Samuel Wimsett[25] 2024 Auckland
Nura Taefi[25] 2024 Auckland

References

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