Council Brief - November 2012

COUNCIL BRIEF
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NOVEMBER 2012
ISSUE 419
❑ President’s Column
❑ Library News
Education and welcomes part of busy Branch month
By Mark Wilton
most enjoyable and well attended allowing
the profession the opportunity to thank
Justice Collins for his enormous
contribution to the Law Society at both a
local and national level. Justice Collins is a
former Wellington District Law Society
President and Vice President of the NZLS.
Enthusiastic welcome to Solicitor-General
Members gathered last week to
welcome new Solicitor-General Michael
Heron to Wellington. The picture below
was taken at this event.
Counsel in Concert
I was also thrilled to attend the Counsel
in Chorus concert where an ensemble of
talented lawyers made music for the
THE NZLS Council met
recently – it was good to
engage with fellow
presidents from around
the country and progress
the affairs of the Society.
One of the topics
discussed was the
Continuing Professional
Development scheme (CPD). Completion
of the draft rules for CPD achieves another
milestone and the rules have now gone out
to the profession for consultation.
Our Branch Council CPD working party
will once again participate in the process
and members who have an interest in this
area are invited to send their views and
comments to the Branch for the attention
of the CPD Working Group:
[email protected]
The meeting also confirmed Chris
Moore’s appointment as President-elect for
the NZ Law Society, beginning April 2013.
We congratulate Mr Moore and we look
forward to his contribution in this
challenging and demanding role.
Congratulations to Justice Collins
Members gathered at a bar dinner to mark
and congratulate former Solicitor-General
Dr David Collins QC on his appointment to
the High Court Bench. The evening was
enjoyment and entertainment of all those
who assembled in St Andrews on the
Terrace. This was my first time at this
now annual event and it was fantastic
movie themed musical feast.
Finally, I would encourage all
interested and affected practitioners to
attend a meeting in Lower Hutt on
Tuesday 13 November concerning the
closure of the Upper Hutt Court and
proposed management restructuring. The
Branch has organised this meeting with
Ministry of Justice officials to provide our
members an opportunity to engage and
discuss these matters which will have an
impact on the profession and the public.
Wellington Branch members gave the recently appointed Solicitor-General Michael
Heron a warm welcome last week at an informal evening function. Seen here with
Branch President Mark Wilton and Vice President Rachael Dewar, Mr Heron has worked
mostly in Auckland and overseas though, he said, he was ‘… at heart a Wellingtonian.’
❑ New Council Members
MERW partner enjoys sport
and family outside work
Family law focus for Council
Wairarapa representative
NEW Council member Patricia Green is
a partner with Minter Ellison Rudd
Watts where she has worked since 2009
and where she focuses on commercial
property including leasing and sales and
acquisitions.
She grew up in Wainuiomata in a
large family in which her football-mad
brothers all supported Liverpool. In
Patricia Green
self-defence, she says, she was forced to
pick an opposing team and chose
Manchester United. “I follow most sport now but it is my
beloved Manchester United that I love the best!”
Patricia spent the first eight years of this century in
London, working for London law firms Penningtons,
Lawrence Graham, and Jeffrey Green Russell, and also
studying for a Masters in International Conflict Analysis at
the London Centre for International Relations.
Outside of work she enjoys spending time with her young
family – she has two girls Ayla and Kahlan, playing netball
(“badly”, she says), and of course following Man U.
Patricia is active in the Women-in-Law Committee and is
the Council Liaison representative for the Library
Committee. She thinks it is important that the diverse
interests of the profession are represented on the Branch
Council and believes she can bring a fresh perspective to
issues.
MEMBER on the Council representing
Wairarapa practitioners, Ainslie
Hewton, says she remembers being
interested in law from an early age but
was discouraged by a school careers
adviser who told her that “… women
don’t do law”.
“That was in the late 1960s when
there were few women law students
Ainslie Hewton
and I didn’t have the confidence to go
against the tide then,” she says.
Always stirred by law, fairness, justice and equality,
Ainslie nurtured her interest in things legal and years later,
after becoming a Department of Labour vocational guidance
counsellor, took her own advice and retrained as a lawyer
studying first extramurally through Otago University and
finishing at Victoria.
She had already moved to Masterton from Invercargill in
1985 and it was there in 1998 that she started her own practice
focusing particularly on family law. Many of her clients are
women with concerns such as domestic violence, care of
children and division of property and stress levels are often high;
Ainslie’s office, a renovated historic cottage with an attractive
garden, is a homely and relaxing place to discuss legal issues.
Ainslie’s focus on Council is to provide a broad
perspective to Council deliberations, particularly as seen
through the eyes of Wairarapa practitioners.
In this issue:
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Wellington Branch Diary November
Case summaries based on those written for LINX database. Copies of the
judgments are available from the NZLS High Court Library:
[email protected] 64 4 473-6202 o 0800 FORLAW– 0800 36 75 29
Thursday 8 November
Courts and Tribunals Committee meeting
Family Law Committee meeting
Public Law Committee meeting
Thurs-Fri 8-9 November
Employment Law Conference – Good Faith, Langham Hotel, Auckland
Thurs-Fri-Sat 8-9-10 November
Stepping Up – foundation for practising on your own account
NZLS CLE Training Programme. NZICA Conference centre
Tuesday 13 November
Court Closures – meeting with Ministry of Justice, Courtroom 1
Lower Hutt District Court, 4-6pm
Wednesday 14 November
Practical Enforcement of Judgments, NZLS CLE Seminar
Spectrum Theatre 2.00-4.30pm
Friday 16 November
Criminal Law Committee meeting
Fri-Sat-Sun 16-17-18 November
Understanding mediation – mediation for lawyers Part A, NZLS CLE Workshop
Wednesday 21 November
Trusts for Property Lawyers, NZLS CLE Seminar
James Cook Hotel, 1.00-5.00pm
Wellington Branch Council meeting
Thursday 22 November
A Beginner’s Guide to the Employment Court
NZLS CLE Webinar, 11.00am-midday
Immigration & Refugee Committee meeting
Legal Assistance Committee meeting
Employment Law Committee meeting
Mon-Tues 26-27 November
Reading Accounts and Balance Sheets, NZLS CLE Workshop
Terrace Convention Centre
Friday 30 November
Women in Law Committee meeting
Bae v R – [2012] NZCA 455 – 4
October 2012 – White, Heath and
Andrews JJ
CRIMINAL LAW – CRIMINAL
PROCEDURE
Successful appeals against
conviction – sexual violation by
rape (B and J); sexual violation by
digital penetration (B) – application
for leave to appeal against sentence
of 3.5 years imprisonment formally
dismissed with indication of likely
success – inability of Korean
appellants or their interpreter to
hear complainant’s softly spoken
evidence in cross examination
given in Korean behind screen and
her exchanges with her interpreter
– complainant’s evidence crucial to
defences of consent and belief in
consent on reasonable grounds –
problem arose in particular
circumstances of case where
complainant gave evidence in
Korean and English with former
being interpreted by L for benefit of
Court and the latter being
interpreted by S for benefit of
appellants – unchallenged
evidence of appellants, both court
appointed interpreters and
prosecuting counsel established
difficulties with hearing and
interpretation which continued
after they were brought to attention
of counsel – difficulties affected
appellants’ ability to give proper
instructions to counsel as to
appropriate questions for cross
examination – particular difficulty
around meaning of Korean word
“hajima” which complainant used
at time of incident and bore
opposite meanings of “stop” or
“continue” depending on context –
appeal against sentence challenged
61% discount for youth in absence
of guilty plea and remorse –
whether appellants were deprived
of fair trial having regard to rights
under New Zealand Bill of Rights
Act 1990 (NZBORA) – SC
decision of Abdula v R in relation
to requirement for consecutive
interpretation delivered after trial –
discussion of fair trial rights in R v
COUNCIL BRIEF CROSSWORD
Condon, Abdula and R v Duval –
no right in every case to second
interpreter to check accuracy of
first interpreter – HELD: appeals
against conviction should succeed:
– (i) there was real risk of
impediment to conduct of
appellants’ defences as they did not
have full and contemporaneous
knowledge of what was happening
at their trial (s25(a), s25(e)
NZBORA and Abdula); – (ii)
appellants did not know case
against them and did not have
opportunity to answer that case
(s25(f), s27(1) NZBORA and
Duval); – (iii) departures from
requisite standards meant trial was
unfair – miscarriage of justice – no
recourse to the proviso to s385
Crimes Act 1961 – appeals against
conviction allowed – convictions
quashed and new trial ordered –
leave to appeal against sentence
formally declined with indication
that discount of 61% unlikely to be
justified for youth alone in absence
of guilty plea and genuine remorse.
Will Notices page 8
in this issue
You can use this diagram for either the Quick or Cryptic Clues, but the answers
in each case are different. This month’s solutions are on page 2.
Cryptic Clues
ACROSS
1. Pacific people would favour this – and I’m
master for a change (11)
9. Practise extortion - public instrument for
cutting needed! (7)
10. The kind of physical impulse to provide
resolution (5)
11. Parts of ships looking smooth and glossy when
turned round (5)
12. His room is arranged in North African style (7)
13. Mitigate an outburst of passion (6)
15. Keep on pestering a nocturnal animal (6)
18. If asked his occupation, would he give a stock
answer? (7)
20. Andersen named the medicinal plant inside (5)
22 and 23 Ac. Suffering from no heaviness at the
core? (5-7)
24. A state in which employment would be out of
the question? (11)
DOWN
2. She’s held by their enemies (5)
3. Different traits revealed by eastern
performer (7)
4. Guiding principles for the production of
machine-guns (6)
5. Just the food to provide a guy with energy
(5)
6. Giving patient attention (7)
7. Strictly regulates one’s operations, but
strives to hold sway (5,2,4)
8. Capture the woman’s estates for a
European country (11)
14. Is able to cope, but the fellow looks older
(7)
16. Don’t! It’s a ban, maybe (7)
17. Bends the back and vaults! (6)
19. If a man stays here, he mixes with a lot! (5)
21. Records brought up when radio is
operating (5)
Conferences
November 8-9 2012 – Employment Law
Conference – Good Faith, Auckland. NZLS
CLE. www.lawyerseducation.co.nz
November 9-10 2012 – Australian Drug
Courts, Australasian Institute of Judicial
Administration, Melbourne. www.aija.org.au
November 14-16 2012 – 10th World
Conference of the International Ombudsman
Institute, Wellington. www.confer.co.nz/wcioi
November 18-21 2012 – 25th Lawasia
Conference, Bali, Indonesia.
http://lawasia.asn.au/lawasia-conferences.htm
November 22 2012 – Building and
Construction Law, Stamford Plaza,
Auckland. www.lexisnexis.co.nz/media/events
November 22-24 2012 – Inaugural Asia/
Oceania Travel, Tourism & Hospitality Law
Conference, Perth. www.lawconferences.com.au
November 25-27 2012 – 3rd Asia Pacific
Regional Forum Conference, IBA Asia
Pacific Regional Forum, Kuala Lumpur.
www.ibanet.org
November 27-29 2012 – Australia and New
Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC)
25th annual conference, Auckland.
www.anzsoc2012.org
November 29-30 2012 – Construction
Contract Management, Wellington.
www.conferenz.co.nz
November 30 2013 – Deloitte ‘Know Your
Numbers’, Wellington. [email protected]
December 4 2012 – Drink and Drugged
Driving Law, Stamford Plaza, Auckland.
www.lexisnexis.co.nz/media/events
December 10-12 2012 – Receiving Laws/
Giving Laws, ANZLHS (Australia and NZ
Law and History) Conference, UTS, Sydney.
www.uts.edu.au/Research/conferences/
receiving_laws.html
March 12-13 2013
27th Annual Industrial and Employment Relations Summit, Wellington.
www.conferenz.co.nz
April 14-18 2013 – Commonwealth Law
Conference, Cape Town, South Africa.
Commonwealth Lawyers Association.
www.componwealthlaw2013.org
May 16-17 2013 – CLANZ 26th Annual
Conference, Napier. www.clanzonline.org
August 19-20 2013 – NZ Legal Executives
Conference, Rydges Hotel, Wellington.
[email protected]
Quick Clues
ACROSS
1. Book-keeping (11)
9. Ennui (7)
10. Less wet (5)
11. Spine (5)
12. Outermost (7)
13. Innumerable (6)
15. Landed property
(6)
18. Towing vehicle (7)
20. Forebode (5)
22. Meeting-place (5)
23. Subtle
discrimination (7)
24. Fraternity (11)
Will
Notices
on page 8
in this issue
CVs available at
Wellington Branch
THE Wellington Branch NZLS holds
the CVs of lawyers and people preparing for admission who are looking
for employment. Contact the Branch
to see whether we can match up a
candidate with the skills you are
looking for.
DECEMBER COUNCIL
BRIEF DEADLINE
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metal containers, each of which
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labelled “pens”, one is labelled
“pencils”, and one is labelled
“pens and pencils”. How may
you label each container
correctly by drawing a writing
implement from just one of the
containers without looking
inside the container?
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2. Freight (5)
3. Defining position in
series (7)
4. Figure (6)
5. Examine accounts (5)
6. Wild fancy (7)
7. Hindering (11)
8. Liberal (4-7)
14. Coach (7)
16. Trusty (7)
17. Small amount (6)
19. Handle (5)
21. Plaster of Paris (5)
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OBITUARY
NEWS
Peter Edward Martyn
18 September 1930-12 October 2012
PETER Martyn was born in
Oamaru on 18 September 1930.
He was educated at Waitaki
Boys’ High School and studied
law at Victoria University of
Wellington in the 1950s.
Peter first worked at the Public
Trust Office in Wellington before
joining in May 1959 the firm with
which he would spend the rest of
his legal career – Macalister
Mazengarb Parkin and Rose.
In a eulogy delivered at Peter’s
funeral, Wayne Chapman said
Peter was “poached” from the
Public Trust Office by Macalister
Mazengarb partner Frank Parkin
to manage the firm’s estate
practice and the general
conveyancing and commercial
work that went with that role.
When Wayne went to work as
a law clerk for Buddle Anderson
Kent & Co in February 1965 he
met Peter Martyn through
conveyancing settlements.
“Law clerks in those days
attended on conveyancing
settlements in person. Macalister
Mazengarb Parkin and Rose acted
for the PSIS, a very active second
mortgage lender, so many
settlements involved law clerks
from Macalister Mazengarb.”
Later, when the two firms both
moved into the newly completed
National Bank building on
Featherston Street, he and Peter
frequently met in the lifts and
around and about.
Wayne says Peter was ahead of
his time in his ability to clearly
and concisely explain complex
matters of the law. “I remember
acting for the purchaser of one of
two units in Wilton Road that had
been subdivided under the then
very new Unit Titles Act 1972.
Peter acted for the vendor and for
the owner of the other unit. He
had probably been responsible for
the Unit Title subdivision.
Following settlement, Peter
convened a meeting between my
client with me in attendance and
his other client, the owner of the
other unit. The purpose of that
meeting was to explain the
ramifications of that new
legislation and the way the
development should operate.
Peter gave that explanation in a
clear and concise way in language
that my client (and I) clearly
understood.”
Peter was associated with Law
Society affairs for more than 15
years. He first became a member
of the Wellington District Law
Society council in March 1974.
At the end of 1977, as equal
longest serving member with Mr
AAT Ellis, he lost a coin toss to
determine who would make the
normally automatic progression
to the position of treasurer and
eventually
president.
In
accordance with the rules Peter
stood down for a year and rejoined
the Council in March 1979. This
time he passed through the ranks
and was elected unopposed as
president in March 1987. Later he
served as a NZ Law Society vice
president and treasurer.
Wayne Chapman says Peter’s
long service to the Society reflects
the pride he felt in the profession.
“He brought to it the same sort of
attention to detail as he did to the
unit title deal [previously]
mentioned.”
Away from work Peter had a
rich and happy family life. He and
Joy were married in 1955. They
had three daughters and two sons,
and now five grandchildren. Peter
loved literature, music and the
theatre. He was especially fond of
chamber music and Shakespeare
and was a member of the
Wellington Shakespeare Society.
He had been a keen tramper
and did some trekking in Nepal.
He enjoyed lawn bowls, playing at
the Khandallah club, and also
played bridge. He was a lifelong
learner, interested in history,
classics, language, botany,
mathematics and art.
Macalister Mazengarb practice
manager Sue Isaacs says Peter was
coming into the office until
recently. “He was a gentleman of
the old school, a lovely fellow,”
she says.
Peter Martyn was one of the
‘50-plus’ practitioners – those in
practice for 50 or more years –
honoured by the Branch at a
dinner in June 2010.
Problems with elected judges in the USA
IN a recent comment in The New
Yorker, legal writer Jeffrey Toobin
wrote about elections of judges in
the USA in a piece entitled ‘Judges
for Sale’.
While from the New Zealand
perspective the election of judges
might seem a quaint idea, in fact 39
US states elect judges to their
highest courts. As Toobin writes,
state courts decide about 95 percent
of cases in American courts,
deciding criminal prosecutions,
civil lawsuits, child-custody
matters and personal injuries.
From being sleepy affairs with
not a lot of interest, Toobin points
out that in recent years big business
has got involved in state judicial
elections, where interest groups
from various sides have ploughed
in cash to elect judges of particular
political hue. He quotes a report
from the left-leaning Center for
American Progress which indicates
a significant increase of corporate
and other special interest financing
of judicial election campaigns.
“The explosion of money in
judicial elections has led
Americans to experience a crisis of
confidence in their judiciary.
According to a 2011 poll, 90
percent of those surveyed said
judges should recuse themselves
from cases involving campaign
contributors, but recusal is
extremely rare.
“A party to a
lawsuit in West
Virginia repeatedly
asked a state
supreme
court
justice to recuse
himself after an
executive with the
Sandra Day
O’Connor at the opposing party, a
company,
Society in 2008. coal
spent more than $3
million through an independent
entity to support the judge’s
election. The judge refused and cast
the deciding vote overturning a $50
million verdict against the coal
company. In 2009 the U.S.
Supreme Court ruled the judge
should have recused himself. The
court noted that the executive’s
contribution was three times more
than the spending by the justice’s
own campaign. The U.S. Supreme
Court stated, ‘Just as no man is
allowed to be a judge in his own
cause, similar fears of bias can arise
when … a man chooses the judge in
his own cause’.”
The problem of money in
judicial elections has a straightforward solution, Toobin says:
appointive state judiciaries.
The report says “Big business is
tightening its grip on our courts.
Instead of serving as a last resort for
Americans seeking justice, judges
are bending the law to satisfy the
concerns of their corporate
donors.”
Toobin quotes Sandra Day
O’Connor, a retired Supreme Court
Justice in the US who has been a
leader in the fight for an appointive
judiciary (and who incidentally was
welcomed by the Women-in-Law
Committee at a reception at the
Wellington District Law Society in
August 2008). She wrote a couple
of years ago: “When you enter one
of these courtrooms, the last thing
you want to worry about is whether
the judge is more accountable to a
campaign contributor or an
ideological group than to the law”.
Two Rex Mason awards for excellence in legal writing were presented
recently by Supreme Court Judge Sir William Young at a Wellington
Branch ceremony. Hamish McQueen, second from left, won the 2010
award for his article ‘Parliamentary Business: A Critical Review of
Parliament’s Role in New Zealand’s Law-Making Process’, published
in the Auckland University Law Review. The 2009 winner, Richard
Boast (inset), won his award for ‘So Long Lying Idle Without a School:
Wi Parata, Wallis and Whitireia’, published in the NZ Journal of
Public and International Law. Judges Sir William Young, left, and
Professor Tony Smith, second from right, are pictured with Wellington
Branch President Mark Wilton. Bernard Robertson was also a judge
but not present. The Rex Mason award was recently re-established
to become an annual award for legal writing. The award is made in
honour of Rex Mason, a lawyer and one of New Zealand’s longestserving Members of Parliament.
Young lawyers ‘meet the judiciary’
ON 1 November the Young
Lawyers’
Committee,
in
conjunction with the New Zealand
Law Society, hosted a Meet the
Judiciary event. Young lawyers
were invited to mix and mingle
with some of New Zealand’s top
judges in an informal atmosphere.
In attendance were Justices
Chambers and Glazebrook from
the Supreme Court; Justices
Arnold, Ellen France and Wild
from the Court of Appeal; and
Justices Dobson and Kós from the
High Court.
The event started with the
judges chatting and getting to know
the young lawyers over nibbles and
wine. There was then a brief pause
in the socialising while the
audience heard from Jamie Grant,
YLC Convenor, and Wellington
Branch President Mark Wilton,
before short speeches from three of
the judges. Justice Glazebrook
drew on her recent appointment to
the Supreme Court to talk about the
differences in the role of the
Supreme Court and Court of
Appeal. Justice Arnold provided
the young lawyers present with
some great advocacy tips —
emphasising the need for all
advocates to have a clear theory of
their case and the importance of not
antagonising judges. Justice Kós
talked about the pleasure he gains
from the varied work that comes
with judging, and entertained the
audience with anecdotes from his
experiences as a judge.
The event was a great success,
with about 50 young lawyers taking
the opportunity to meet some of
New Zealand’s finest legal minds.
It was great to see both senior and
junior members of the legal
profession mixing in such a
convivial atmosphere, and a real
testament to the judges who gave
up their time to assist with the
professional development of
Wellington’s young lawyers.
Many thanks to the Law Society
for its generous provision of the
venue and catering for the event,
and to all those who helped to
organise the event. The YLC looks
forward to organising similar
events in the future.
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and Tony Southall.
Hon Chester Borrows, Justice Collins and Wellington Branch President Mark Wilton.
Phyllis Strachan, Chris O’Connor and David Dunbar.
Nikki Pender and Lance Pratley.
Hamish Hancock, Don Mathieson QC and Lisa Hansen.
Amanda Courtney and Annette Gray.
Ken Stephen, Ted Aspey and Nerissa Barber.
Associate Judge Gendall and John Marshall QC.
Sandy Baigent, Rachel Hayward and Grant Burston.
Judge Walsh, Christine Grice and Chris Corry.
Karen Clark QC , Maria Deligiannis, Una Jagose and Michael Quigg.
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DEVIL’S OWN GOLF
Good turnout for 2012 Devil’s Own
A FIELD of 95 players (including 15 first-timers) took
part in the 78th Devil’s Own Golf Tournament played
at the Manawatu Golf Club course at Hokowhitu from
15-17 September 2012.
Qualifying Round – Saturday Afternoon
Peter Hunt from Auckland was the top qualifier on
Saturday afternoon with a net score of 68 to win the
Ross Morpeth Trophy.
Geoff Baxter from Auckland was the winner of the
Lexis Nexis Shield for highest stableford points with
40 points.
Fergus Whyte from Auckland was awarded the
Sinclair prize for the highest net score of 119.
The Ykato team of Mike Dixon, Ron Backhouse,
Tony Nolan and Bob McDermott won the Guardian
Trust District Teams Match competition.
Runners up in the District Teams Match competition were the Auckland A team of Michael Fisher,
Brett Abraham, Sean Kelly and David Neutze.
Devil’s Own Championship – Monday
The semi-finalists were Tim Rainey from Auckland
Monday’s competition
Distress Foursomes third place
Distress Foursomes runners up
Distress Foursomes winners
Dean Larsen Robert Harris
Richard Howie Bruce Stewart
Jim Kilpatrick John McGlashan
Juvenile Delinquency third place
Juvenile Delinquency runners up
Juvenile Delinquency winners
John Strahl Alasdair McBeth
Michael Dixon Julian Long
Iain Hutcheson Mike Lucas
Qualifying round competitions
Longest Drive
Peter Hunt
Closest to Pin
Paul Fisher
Open Teams Match Runners up – Blues 303
Phil Sheat, Geoff Baxter, Simon Foote, Michael Fisher
Open Teams Match Winners – Ykato 295
Mike Dixon, Ron Backhouse, John McGlashan, Tony Nolan
District Teams Match Runners up – Auckland A 309
Michael Fisher, Brett Abraham, Sean Kelly, David Neutze
District Teams Match Winners – Ykato 297
Mike Dixon, Ron Backhouse, Tony Nolan, Bob McDermott
Highest Net Score – 119 Sinclair Prize
Fergus Whyte
Lowest Net Score – 68
Ross Morpeth Trophy
Peter Hunt
Highest Stableford Points Runner up 39
Paul Fisher
Highest Stableford Points winner 40 LexisNexis Shield Geoff Baxter
Gatley third place
Ian McDonald
Gatley second place
Wah McLean
Gatley winner
Gatley Tankard
John Waddington
Tally Ho Flight winner
Tally Ho winner Tom Ennis Trophy
Brad Cuff
James Wollerman
who won his match with the 1993 winner Barry
Boon from Wellington, and 2010 winner Geoff
Baxter from Auckland who won his match with Paul
Fisher from Tokoroa.
Geoff Baxter won the match with Tim Rainey in
the final to win the Devil’s Own Trophy and as
runner up Pat Kennelly received the McBride Cup.
Other trophy winners
Peter Hunt from Auckland was the winner of the
Devil’s Own flight and the Dick Kearney Memorial
Cup.
Sean Kelly from Auckland was the winner of the
Ancient Lights division and the Brian Blackwood
Memorial Trophy.
James Wollerman from Wellington was the
winner of the Tally Ho division and the Tom Ennis
Memorial Trophy.
John Waddington from Masterton was the winner
of the Gatley division and the fourth recipient of the
Gatley Tankard.
Legal Aid Flight Winner
Legal Aid Winner
Paul David
Gavin White
Fidelity Flight Winner
Fidelity Winner
Terry Nowland
Dennis Gates
They Also Serve Flight Winner
They Also Serve Winner
Terry Urquhart
Logan O’Callahan
Michael Lenihan, Jeremy Valentine,
Bob McDermott and Geoff Shearer.
Devil’s Own semi-finalists
Barry Boon, Tim Rainey,
Paul Fisher and Geoff Baxter.
Paul David, Michael Sweeney,
Tim Cleary and Gavid White.
Barry Boon, Mike Dixon,
Peter Hunt and Hadleigh Brown.
They Have No Time to Stand Flight Winner Robert Harris
They Have No Time to Stand Winner
Richard Olliver
Careless Drivers Flight Winner
Careless Drivers Winner
Jeremy Valentine
Matt Booth
Dorrington Handicap Flight Winner
Dorrington Handicap Winner
John McGlashan
John McCardle
Pauper’s Appeal Flight winner
Pauper’s Appeal winner
David Duggan
Michael Fisher
Ancient Lights Flight winner
Ancient Lights winner
Brian Blackwood Trophy
Peter Jenkin
Sean Kelly
Devil’s Own Flight winner
Dick Kearney Cup
Devil’s Own fourth
Devil’s Own third place
Devil’s Own runner up McBride Cup
Devil’s Own winner Devil’s Own Trophy
Peter Hunt
Barry Boon
Paul Fisher
Tim Rainey
Geoff Baxter
John Waddington, Ian McDonald, Ross Crotty
and Gerald Blathwayt.
Brett Gould, Peter Hardie, Terry Urquhart
and Graham Mowbray.
Ian McLauchlan, Mike Gould,
Geoff Baxter and Bruce Stewart.
Judge Tom Broadmore and Fergus Whyte.
Peter Jenkin, Phil Sheat, Sean Kelly and Ron Backhouse.
Jeremy Valentine, Matt Booth, Geoff Shearer and Brett Abraham.
Left: James
Wollerman,
John Saunders,
Iain Feist and
Brad Cuff.
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The Scandinavian ‘Cosy’ – Mankell, Lackberg et al
By Margaret Greville
PROBABLY most English-speaking devotees of
detective fiction first became aware of the sub-genre of
Scandinavian thrillers with the meteoric ascent and
equally spectacular descent that was the professional
life of author Stieg Larsson. His two principal
characters are respectively a maverick omnisexual
hard-hitting yet equivocal and mysterious Goth
heroine, and a curiously colourless male journalist.
More typical of the Nordic hero is a melancholic
“fallen hero” of the gum-shoe ilk, casually but
uniquely gifted and insightful, but fatally flawed in his
unending battles with personal relationships and
addictions. Examples of this variant of the genre are Jo
Nesbo’s Harry Hole, and Henning Mankell’s Kurt
Wallander.
But Camila Lackberg probably represents the first
in a potential alternative line of the Scandinavian
equivalent of the English “cosy”. Characteristics of
this sub-genre are the setting – usually an English
village, the heroine middle-aged, usually (but only
recently) owning a cat or dog. Miss Marple is probably
the prototype, but more recent additions to the genre
include the more modern and ribald Agatha Raisin,
happily straddling the divide between the subgenre
and its parody. Lackberg makes no attempt to stretch
the bounds of the sub-genre, but she does weave
together the opposing strands of the content
remarkably well, combining on the one hand a fastpaced thriller requiring the conventional skills of
detective Patrik Hedstrom and the activities of his
lover/fiancée/wife, Erica Falck, a writer of detective
fiction and biographer of eminent writers. Inevitably,
Erica’s work provides both a backdrop and complement to Patrik’s detecting, and at times, it is her family
and circle of friends that provides much of the grist to
his (and increasingly her) detecting mill.
In fact, it is the measured unfolding of Erica’s
immediate family and its history from one novel to the
next that offers the context for much of the corruption
and wrongdoing that is gradually revealed as the
ambivalence of Swedish culture emerges in the
background. This is a recurring theme throughout
Scandinavian crime fiction: the ghosts of Nazi sympathisers past, and of neo-Nazis present are recurrent
inhabitants of the pages, as are hints of corruption and
racism. The first of the series, The Ice Princess, is set
in small-town Fjallbacka, after Erica’s return to the
town on the death of her parents. Significantly, the
story is founded on Erica’s need to sort through her
parent’s belongings and the gradual revelation of the
past and a few nasty secrets. This establishes the
theme, continued throughout the series, of the slow
uncovering of the past in answer to imperatives
presented by contemporary events, themselves the
inevitable outcome of a less than savoury past.
The “cosy” backdrop consists of the developing
relationship of Patrik and Camila, of the drawing into
the plot of Erica’s sister, Anna, and the somewhat
convenient rearrangement of characters upon the
death of Anna’s husband and the re-emergence of
Dan, Erica’s previous lover.
But although the tying up of loose ends is rather
tidily managed by the author, the novels do not end on
the recurring note of a relaxing cup of tea in the
vicarage or Miss Marple’s cottage.
The background is not static, but possesses its own
dynamic, and continues to evolve, novel by novel. The
individual novels in turn provide the specifics needed
to highlight particular human or social issues, while
the loosely slung domestic background offers a
constantly evolving field upon which the plots are
worked out.
Some readers have found Lackberg’s writing slow
moving, while others have found the outcomes
predictable. I think this does not do them justice. They
are not just Sudoku puzzles, designed to baffle us for a
brief period only to compel us on to the next
rearrangement of the same numerals. Others have
found the plots gripping, and the suspense well maintained. Real human and societal issues are introduced
and handled intelligently and without didacticism.
Characters are authentic and lively, and by no means
simple cardboard cutouts.
Sweden is not just a progressive modern nation
without hang-ups, but one which still harbours a dark
past and a present in which its own contemporary
demons lurk. Do try some!
❑ Margaret Greville is Law Librarian at the University of
Canterbury. Republished with permission from
Canterbury Tales.
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Tales.
The New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law presents a conference
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Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington, Lecture Theatre 1,
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With Keynote speaker:
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Monday 26 November
Page 7 – COUNCIL BRIEF, NOVEMBER 2012
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Thirty three seats in the Senate,
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Receptionist: Briar Wood
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Across: 1 Disarmament; 9 Overtax; 10 Nerve; 11
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THE WIZARD OF ID
Local firm wins twice
at national law awards
WELLINGTON law firm McBride Davenport James has won two
awards at the 8th Annual New Zealand Law Awards held in
Auckland on 1 November.
The firm won both the Property and Construction Law and the
Employment Law awards.
Among other awards the Large Law Firm of the Year award went
to Minter Ellison, Geoff Sharp is Mediator of the Year, Rosalie Cus,
in-house lawyer with the Ministry of Social Development, won the
Public Law Award, and Baldwins received the Intellectual Property
Firm of the Year award.
New books at the NZ Law
Society Library, Wellington
Administrative law in a global era
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press KM300.G1 AMA
Australia, republic or monarchy? : Legal and constitutional issues
St. Lucia:University of Queensland Press 1994
Care and protection orders and CYFS
Wellington : New Zealand Law Society 2012 KN176.4.L1 NEW
Case for court
London: Arthur Barker 1964
Dick’s daisies: Richard Alexander Heron, 22 December 1936-30
March 2002
Petone, N.Z.: Heron Family 2012 KB10.L1 HER
Laughter at law
London, A. Barker 1961
No bail for the judge
London: Michael Joseph 1952
Open connectivity, open data: two dimensions of the freedom to seek,
receive and impart information
Wellington, N.Z.:Victoria University of Wellington 2012 KN347.15
PEN
Statutory interpretation : a 2012 guide
Wellington : New Zealand Law Society 2012 KL35.L1 NEW
Tax conference
Wellington : New Zealand Law Society 2012 KM335.L1 NEW
The Mr A case/edited, with a forewARD , by C.E.Bechhofer Roberts
London: Jarrods 1940
The Newgate calendar
London: The Folio Society 1951
The Port Nicholson Block urgency report
Wellington: Legislation Direct 2012 KN62.5.L1 WAI
The last serjeant: the memoirs of Serjeant A M Sullivan, QC
London:Macdonald 1952
The life of Richard Stafford Cripps
London: Hodder and Stoughton 1957
The monarchy and the constitution
Oxford: Clarendon Press 1995 KM41.A1 BOG
The trial of Harry Dobkin: edited , with a foreword and a note on
capital punishment by C E Bechhofer Roberts
London: Jarrods 1944
The trials of Oscar Wilde: Regina (Wilde) v Queensbury, Regina v
Wilde and Taylor
London: Hodge 1948
COUNCIL BRIEF, NOVEMBER 2012 – Page 8
CHAMBERS
COUNSEL IN CONCERT
WILL
Lower Hutt
Chambers
Vacancy
ENQUIRIES
FOR URGENT ACTION
Please contact the solicitors
concerned if you are holding a will
for any of the following:
Office available in established
central Lower Hutt chambers.
Flexible options are available
but can include photocopier,
fax, meeting room and limited
law library.
KENNEDY, Graeme Jonathan
Resided at 25 Te Hapua Road, RD 1,
Otaki. Born 15 May 1960 in Croyden,
Surrey, England.
Died on or around 29 September 2012.
Breaden McCardle Chubb
(Sophie Kinsella)
PO Box 140, Paraparaumu 5254
DX RP 60005
Tel 04 296 1105 Fax 04 297 3231
[email protected]
Contact Catherine 566-5100 or
(027) 289-2761
Highly
successful
‘Counsel in
Concert’
FOR the fourth year running
Counsel in Concert presented a
superb programme of music for the
delectation of Wellingtonians.
This year’s concert was “At the
movies”, highlighting atmospheric
pieces from opera and the classics
that have found their way into
movie soundtracks, as well as music
written for particular films.
Around 50 lawyers and law staff
took part, bolstered by members of
the NZ Symphony Orchestra and
the Vector Wellington Orchestra.
All worked hard preparing for the
two concerts, one at lunchtime and
the other in the early evening.
Sopranos Deborah Wai Kapohe
and Amanda Barclay, tenor John
Beaglehole and baritone Jared Holt
delighted the audience as did the
choir, the latter performing a
rousing Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’.
A highlight was a composition
for choir and orchestra written for
the event by lawyer/composer
Aaron Lloydd who works in the
Ministry of Social Development.
The text for “The Fundamental
Obligations of Lawyers” was drawn
from section 4 of the Lawyers and
Conveyancers Act 2006.
As previously, proceeds went to
the Child Cancer Foundation and
this year $3600.00 was raised,
around the same as last year.
Soul Focus Photography
LAWRIE, Richard Glenn (commonly
known as ‘Glenn Lawrie’)
Late of Kahutara, RD, Featherton.
Oil Company Executive / Company
Director.
Died 21 September 2012.
Lower Hutt Law Centre (M G Donovan)
PO Box 30619, Lower Hutt
Tel 04 566 7733 Fax 04 566 4897
LI, Yuk Chun
Late of Lower Hutt. Homemaker.
Died 28 May 2011.
John Gwilliam & Co (Lindsey Mills)
PO Box 40 457, Upper Hutt
DX RP44011
Tel 04 527 9727 Fax 04 527 9723
[email protected]
Conductor Kenneth Young.
Solicitor-General Michael Heron
welcomed the audience to ‘Counsel
in Concert’.
MACDONALD, Ross
Late of NZ Care Group, 21 Nimmo
Avenue, Waikanae. Beneficiary.
Single. Aged 61.
Born 26 September 1950.
Died at Waikanae 2 June 2012.
Public Trust (Matthew Robinson)
PO Box 31446, Lower Hutt
DX RP42084
Tel 04 978 4871 Fax 04 978 4931
[email protected]
OLOAPA, Kathleen
Late of Woburn Rest Home, 57 Wai-Iti
Crescent, Lower Hutt. Beneficiary.
Divorced. Aged 51.
Born 4 December 1960.
Died at Lower Hutt 20 July 2012.
Public Trust (Michelle Buckley)
PO Box 31446, Lower Hutt
DX RP42084
Tel 04 978 4833 Fax 04 978 4931
[email protected]
Sopranos Amanda Barclay and Deborah Wai Kapohe.
Baritone Jared Holt.
STEWART, Gilbert James
Late of 19 Wheatley Street, Naenae,
Lower Hutt. Retired. Single. Aged 83.
Born 24 August 1929.
Died at Lower Hutt 15 October 2012.
Public Trust (Robert Mullan)
PO Box 31446, Lower Hutt
DX RP42084
Tel 04 978 4865 Fax 04 978 4931
[email protected]
VEALE, Grace Ellen
Late of Longview Rest Home,
14 Sunrise Boulevard, Wellington.
Formerly of 78 Mungavin Avenue,
Porirua. Homemaker. Married. Age 72.
Born 8 January 1940.
Died at Porirua 17 July 2012.
Public Trust (New Estates)
PO Box 31446, Lower Hutt
DX RP42084
Tel 0800 371 471 Fax 03 978 4931
[email protected]
Justice Collins pictured at the recent Wellington Branch dinner to honour his appointment to the High Court
Bench, with his wife Teresa Quirke-Collins and son Richard Collins.
Tenor John Beaglehole.
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