New District Court Judge appointed
Attorney-General Christopher Finlayson announced today that Napier Barrister Max Courtney has been appointed a District Court Judge with a Family Court warrant.
Mr Courtney was admitted to the bar in 1977, working at the time as a Solicitor with McIlroy Cochrane Wellington followed by a stint with Rainey Collins Armour & Boock in Wellington. From 1983 to 1984 he was employed as a Solicitor with Langley Twigg in Napier. In 1984 he became a partner of that firm and from 1984 to 2000 he was partner in charge of the firms litigation department. He has been a Barrister sole 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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