NZBA Council 2020 - 2021 PAUL RADICH QC President (Wellington) Paul served as a Council member from 2015 to 2018 and rejoined the Council last year as President Elect. He practises at Clifton Chambers in Wellington. Paul joined the bar in 2012, having been a litigation partner with Izard Weston, Bell Gully and Minter Ellison Rudd Watts. He has a general commercial litigation practice with a focus on public law and Treaty issues. Paul took Silk in 2014.
QUENTIN DUFF (Auckland) A criminal litigation specialist, Quentin is head of chambers at Mātai Chambers in Auckland. He graduated LLM from Victoria University of Wellington in 1997 and joined Kensington Swan the same year. He has practised at the private Bar since 2000 (although he had a further stint as a barrister & solicitor) before eventually founding Mātai Chambers. He has appeared as trial counsel and appellate counsel in the various courts of New Zealand, including the SC. He has been instructed in trans-Tasman disputes, and worked internationally, most notably in Hong Kong on cases from murder and whitecollar crime to company directors/shareholders disputes. Quentin's whakapapa is Ngāi Te Rangi, Te Arawa & Ngāti Raukawa. Quentin is a member of the Management Committee.
PHILLIP CORNEGÉ (Waikato/Bay of Plenty) Phillip Cornegé is in his second term on Council. He has been a member of the NZBA Training Committee for some time, as well as serving on its Technology Committee. He presents regularly on running paperless hearings, and helped with the redrafting of the Senior Courts revised 2019 Electronic Document Protocol. Phillip is an experienced trial and appellate lawyer, and has appeared several times in the Court of Appeal.
SIMON FOOTE QC Vice President (Auckland) Simon is a barrister at Bankside Chambers in Auckland with a commercial litigation and arbitration practice. He went to the Bar in 2002, prior to which he worked at major firms in Wellington, Auckland and London, and as a Crown Prosecutor in Palmerston North. He was Deputy Chair of the 2014 World Bar Conference at Queenstown and the NZBA Conference in 2015, then Chair of the 2016, 2017, 2018 NZBA Conferences and the New Zealand Chair of the joint NZ-Australia Bar Conference in 2019. Simon also serves on the Association’s Access to Justice Committee, chairs the Membership Committee and participates as an advocacy trainer in the NZBA Mastering Advocacy Faculty. Simon took silk in 2019.
KATE DAVENPORT QC Immediate Past President (Auckland) Kate has now finished her twoyear term as President of the NZBA. She has agreed to stay on the Council as Past President. This role is provided for in our rules. Kate has made significant contributions to access to justice, including contributing to the workshop earlier this year run by the Chief Justice and the Ministry of Justice. She has been a strong advocate for equitable briefing and has spoken internationally about bullying and harassment. Her work during Covid 19 to support members, especially liaising with the courts, is widely appreciated.
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FELIX GEIRINGER (Wellington) Wellington barrister, Felix Geiringer, practises in a broad range of legal fields. He has acted in a number of high-profile matters including representing Sir Tim Shadbolt in a successful defence of a defamation claim,
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