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New District Court Judge appointed
New District Court Judge appointed
Napier Barrister Max Courtney has been appointed a District Court Judge with a Family Court warrant, Attorney-General Christopher Finlayson announced today.
Mr Courtney was a Solicitor with McIlroy Cochrane Wellington after being admitted to the bar in 1977, and then with Rainey Collins Armour & Boock in Wellington. From 1983 to 1984 he was a Solicitor with Langley Twigg in Napier, where from 1984 to 2000 he was the partner in charge of the litigation department. He has been a Barrister since 2000.
Mr Courtney has held various appointments with the Hawkes Bay District Law Society and the New Zealand Law Society. Since 2008 he has been the Deputy Convenor of the New Zealand Law Society Standards Committee (Hawkes Bay) and a Member of the Napier Family Court panel of mediators for counsel-led mediations
The new Judge will be sworn in at Napier on 26 November 2010, and will sit in New Plymouth.
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