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Appointment of Judge of the High Court
Hon Christopher Finlayson
Attorney-General
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December 2014 Media Statement
Appointment of Judge of the High Court
Auckland Queen’s Counsel Anne Hinton has been appointed a Judge of the High Court, Attorney General Christopher Finlayson announced today.
Justice Hinton graduated with an LLB(Hons) from Auckland University in 1975 and became a staff solicitor with Grierson Jackson & Partners in Auckland.
In 1982 Justice Hinton joined the partnership of Hesketh Henry, working in civil litigation. She left that firm in 1989 to join the partnership of Simpson Grierson in their Auckland office and headed the civil litigation and matrimonial property team of five lawyers.
Justice Hinton went to the independent bar in 1997 and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2002.
The new Judge will sit in Auckland.
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