Helen Diana Winkelmann Appointed High Court Judge
New High Court Judge
Attorney-General
Margaret Wilson today announced the appointment of Helen
Diana Winkelmann as a Judge of the High Court.
Justice Winkelmann graduated from Auckland University and for a number of years was a partner with Phillips Fox.
She started practice as a barrister sole in 2001. Justice Winkelmann specialises in commercial litigation, insolvency law and medico legal law. As part of that specialist experience she has delivered a number of Auckland District Law Society seminars on aspects of company law including creditors remedies and fiduciary duties.
Outside of the
law Justice Winkelmann has been a trustee of the Starship
Foundation and the Lynfield College Development Trust. The
new judge will sit in
Auckland.