List of King's and Queen's Counsel in New Zealand
The office of King's Counsel was established in New Zealand in 1907.[1] During the reign of a male sovereign, appointees are called King's Counsel, and this applied from 1907 to 1952 during the reign of Edward VII (1907–1910),[2] George V (1910–1936),[3] Edward VIII (1936),[4] and George VI (1936–1952).[5] During Elizabeth II's reign (February 1952 – September 2022), new appointees were called Queen's Counsel and living King's Counsel became Queen's Counsel.[6] Forty-three King's Counsel had been appointed before 1952.[7] When King Charles III ascended the throne on 9 September 2022 (New Zealand time), living Queen's Counsel automatically became King's Counsel.
Appointments in New Zealand can be made annually by the Governor-General acting on behalf of the sovereign. Recommendations are made by the Attorney-General with concurrence by the Chief Justice.[1] When the first ten appointments were made in June 1907 by Chief Justice Sir Robert Stout, two were from Auckland, four were from Wellington, two were from Christchurch, and two were from Dunedin.[8] The first King's Counsel to die was Thomas Joynt on 5 September 1907, less than three months after his appointment;[9] Joynt had been the senior member of the bar in the country.[8]
Of the 118 years since 1907 (as of 2025), there have been 44 years in which no appointments were made.[10] Following the 2025 appointment round, there have been 378 warrant holders so far.
The first women appointed to the office were Sian Elias and Lowell Goddard in 1988.
List of office holders
The following is a complete list of the office holders. This is based on the list published by the Crown Law Office in May 2023[11] as well as appointments made in 2024 and 2025 and two omissions from the Crown Law list: Claude Weston who, according to the Law Society, is missing on the official list,[10] and Hon Warwick Gendall, who took silk in June 1996[12] and was appointed to the High Court later that year.[13]
| Name | Portrait | Year appointed | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frederick Baume | 
|
1907 | Auckland |
| Francis Bell | 
|
1907 | Wellington |
| Martin Chapman | 
|
1907 | Wellington |
| John Findlay | 
|
1907 | Wellington |
| John Hosking | 
|
1907 | Dunedin |
| Thomas Joynt | .jpg)
|
1907 | Christchurch |
| Charles Skerrett | 
|
1907 | Wellington |
| Saul Solomon | .jpg)
|
1907 | Dunedin |
| Walter Stringer | 
|
1907 | Christchurch |
| Joseph Tole | .jpg)
|
1907 | Auckland |
| John F. M. Fraser | 
|
1910 | Dunedin |
| Thomas Cotter | .jpg)
|
1911 | Auckland |
| Fred Earl | 
|
1912 | Auckland |
| Alexander Gray | 
|
1912 | Wellington |
| Charles Morison | 
|
1912 | Wellington |
| John Reed | .jpg)
|
1912 | Auckland |
| John Salmond | 
|
1912 | Wellington |
| George Raymond |
|
1913 | Christchurch |
| Frederick Wilding | 
|
1913 | Christchurch |
| William MacGregor | 
|
1915 | Dunedin |
| Oliver Samuel | 
|
1919 | New Plymouth |
| Michael Myers | .jpg)
|
1922 | Wellington |
| Hubert Ostler | .jpg)
|
1925 | Auckland[14] |
| Arthur Fair | 
|
1925 | Wellington |
| Thomas Wilford | 
|
1929 | Wellington |
| Alf Hanlon | .jpg)
|
1930 | Dunedin |
| Harold Johnston | 
|
1930 | Wellington |
| John Callan | 
|
1934 | Dunedin |
| Alexander Johnstone | 
|
1934[15] | Auckland |
| Claude Weston | 
|
1934 | Wellington |
| Henry Cornish | .jpg)
|
1934 | Wellington |
| Humphrey O'Leary | .jpg)
|
1935 | Wellington |
| Philip Cooke | .jpg)
|
1936 | Wellington |
| Wilfrid Sim | .jpg)
|
1939[15] | Christchurch |
| Herbert Evans |
|
1946[15] | Wellington |
| Rex Mason | 
|
1946[15] | Auckland |
| John O'Shea |
|
1946 | Wellington |
| Ossie Mazengarb | 
|
1947[15] | Wellington |
| Alfred North | .jpg)
|
1947[15] | Auckland |
| Alf Neill |
|
1950[15] | Dunedin |
| Howard Richmond |
|
1952 | Auckland |
| Leonard Leary | .jpg)
|
1952 | Auckland |
| Alexander Turner |
|
1952 | Auckland |
| Clifton Webb | 
|
1954 | Auckland |
| Vincent Meredith | 
|
1957 | Auckland |
| Richard Wild |
|
1957 | Wellington |
| Reginald Hardie Boys |
|
1958 | Auckland |
| Lance Tompkins | .jpg)
|
1958 | Hamilton |
| Nigel Wilson |
|
1958 | Auckland |
| Campbell Spratt |
|
1961 | Wellington |
| Ronald Davison |
|
1963 | Auckland |
| Robin Cooke |
|
1964 | Wellington |
| Charles Hutchinson |
|
1964 | Auckland |
| Edgar Bowie | 
|
1965 | Christchurch |
| David Beattie | 
|
1965 | Auckland |
| Muir Chilwell |
|
1965 | Auckland |
| John White |
|
1966 | Wellington |
| Peter Hillyer |
|
1967 | Auckland |
| Frank O'Flynn | 
|
1968 | Wellington |
| Lloyd Brown |
|
1968 | Auckland |
| Graham Crossley |
|
1970 | Palmerston North |
| Laurie Southwick |
|
1970 | Auckland |
| Richard Savage |
|
1970 | Wellington |
| Paul Temm |
|
1971 | Auckland |
| Peter Mahon |
|
1971 | Christchurch |
| Maurice O'Brien |
|
1971 | |
| Ian Barker | .jpg)
|
1973 | Auckland |
| Martyn Finlay | 
|
1973 | Auckland |
| Bob Edgley |
|
1973 | |
| Bill Shires |
|
1973 | |
| Stewart Lusk |
|
1973 | |
| Edward Somers |
|
1973 | Christchurch |
| David Tompkins |
|
1974 | Hamilton |
| John Wallace |
|
1974 | |
| Don Inglis |
|
1976 | |
| Maxwell Vautier |
|
1976 | |
| Brian McClelland |
|
1976 | Christchurch |
| Robert Adams-Smith |
|
1978 | |
| Rodney Gallen |
|
1978 | |
| Thomas Eichelbaum |
|
1978 | Wellington |
| Peter Penlington |
|
1978 | Christchurch |
| Robert Smellie |
|
1979 | Auckland |
| Colin Nicholson |
|
1979 | Auckland |
| John Henry |
|
1980 | Auckland |
| Paul Neazor |
|
1981 | |
| Alan Houston |
|
1981 | Hamilton |
| Anthony Hearn |
|
1981 | Christchurch |
| Richard Craddock |
|
1981 | Auckland |
| Edmund (Ted) Thomas |
|
1981 | Auckland |
| Anthony (Tony) Ellis |
|
1981 | Wellington |
| Simon Lockhart |
|
1982 | Auckland |
| John Allen |
|
1983 | Hamilton |
| Peter Salmon | .jpg)
|
1983 | Auckland |
| Barrie Atkinson |
|
1983 | Christchurch |
| David Baragwanath |
|
1983 | Auckland |
| Thomas Gault |
|
1984 | Wellington |
| Andrew McGechan |
|
1984 | Wellington |
| Anthony (Tony) Molloy |
|
1984 | Auckland |
| Ralph Wylie |
|
1985 | |
| Colin Pidgeon |
|
1985 | Auckland |
| Roderick Joyce | .jpg)
|
1985 | Auckland |
| Robert Fisher |
|
1985 | Hamilton |
| Don Mathieson | .jpg)
|
1986 | Wellington |
| John Gibson |
|
1986 | |
| Mike Bungay |
|
1986 | |
| James Farmer |
|
1986 | Auckland |
| Noel Anderson |
|
1986 | Auckland |
| Alan Lough Hassall |
|
1987 | |
| Gerald Stewart Tuohy |
|
1987 | |
| Peter Williams | .jpg)
|
1987 | Auckland |
| David Williams | .jpg)
|
1987 | Auckland |
| Alan Galbraith |
|
1987 | Auckland |
| John McGrath |
|
1987 | Wellington |
| Peter Jenkin |
|
1988 | Wellington |
| Douglas White | .jpg)
|
1988 | Wellington |
| Sian Elias | .jpg)
|
1988 | Auckland |
| Colin Stuart Withnall |
|
1988 | Dunedin |
| Lowell Goddard | 
|
1988 | |
| Michael Lance |
|
1988 | |
| Hugh Williams | .jpg)
|
1988 | Palmerston North |
| Walter Iles |
|
1989 | Wellington |
| John Laurenson | .jpg)
|
1989 | New Plymouth |
| Nigel Hampton | .jpg)
|
1989 | Christchurch |
| George Patterson Barton |
|
1990 | Wellington |
| Stephen Pendrill Charles |
|
1990 | Australia |
| Colin Carruthers |
|
1990 | Wellington |
| Les Atkins | _(cropped).jpg)
|
1990 | Palmerston North |
| John Fogarty |
|
1990 | Christchurch |
| Paul Cavanagh |
|
1991 | Auckland |
| John Upton |
|
1991 | Wellington |
| Michael Camp |
|
1991 | Wellington |
| Anthony (Tony) Lusk |
|
1991 | Auckland |
| Julian Miles |
|
1991 | Auckland |
| William Young | .jpg)
|
1991 | Christchurch |
| Robert Chambers | .jpg)
|
1992 | Auckland |
| Raynor Asher |
|
1992 | Auckland |
| Bruce Squire |
|
1992 | Wellington |
| Barry Paterson |
|
1993 | Hamilton |
| John Wild |
|
1993 | Wellington |
| John Haigh |
|
1993 | Auckland |
| John Priestley | .jpg)
|
1994 | Auckland |
| Rodney Harrison |
|
1994 | Auckland |
| Graham Panckhurst | .jpg)
|
1994 | Christchurch |
| Rhys Harrison |
|
1994 | Auckland |
| John Francis Lyons |
|
1994 | Australia |
| Frank Hortin Callaway |
|
1994 | Australia |
| David Shavin |
|
1994 | Australia |
| Kenneth Keith | .jpg)
|
1994 | Wellington |
| Chris McVeigh |
|
1995 | Christchurch |
| Gary Judd |
|
1995 | Auckland |
| Rodney Hansen | .jpg)
|
1995 | Auckland |
| Hugh Rennie |
|
1995 | Wellington |
| Bradley Giles |
|
1995 | Auckland |
| Michael Reed |
|
1995 | Auckland |
| Judith Ablett-Kerr | .jpg)
|
1995 | Dunedin |
| Paul East | 
|
1995 | Rotorua |
| Charles Augustine Sweeney |
|
1995 | Australia |
| Warwick Gendall | .jpg)
|
1996 | Wellington |
| Stuart Grieve |
|
1996 | Auckland |
| Bill Wilson |
|
1996 | Wellington |
| Tony Randerson | .jpg)
|
1996 | Auckland |
| Austin Forbes | .jpg)
|
1996 | Christchurch |
| Nick Davidson |
|
1996 | Christchurch |
| John Billington |
|
1996 | Wellington |
| Paul Davison |
|
1996 | Auckland |
| Denese Bates |
|
1996 | Auckland |
| Howard Keyte |
|
1997 | Auckland |
| John Rowan |
|
1997 | Whanganui |
| David Wilson |
|
1997 | Hamilton |
| Lynton (Lyn) Stevens | .jpg)
|
1997 | Auckland |
| Terence Arnold | .jpg)
|
1997 | Wellington |
| Brendan Brown |
|
1997 | Wellington |
| Helen Cull |
|
1997 | Wellington |
| Kevin Ryan |
|
1998 | Auckland |
| Christopher Hodson |
|
1998 | Wellington |
| Ian Millard |
|
1998 | Wellington |
| Royden Somerville | .jpg)
|
1998 | Dunedin |
| John Katz |
|
1998 | Auckland |
| Tony Hughes-Johnson |
|
1998 | Christchurch |
| Robert Dobson |
|
1998 | Wellington |
| Ailsa Duffy |
|
1998 | Auckland |
| Paul Heath |
|
1998 | Hamilton |
| Mike Behrens |
|
1999 | Palmerston North |
| Noel Ingram |
|
1999 | Auckland |
| Rodger Haines | .jpg)
|
1999 | Auckland |
| Christopher (Kit) Toogood |
|
1999 | Auckland |
| Kristy McDonald | .jpg)
|
1999 | Wellington |
| Tom Weston |
|
1999 | Christchurch |
| Peter McKenzie |
|
2000 | Wellington |
| Vivienne Ullrich |
|
2000 | Wellington |
| David Collins |
|
2000 | Wellington |
| Paul Mabey |
|
2000 | Tauranga |
| David McGee | .jpg)
|
2000 | Wellington |
| Bruce Stewart |
|
2000 | Auckland |
| Mark Cooper | .jpg)
|
2000 | Auckland |
| George Tanner | .jpg)
|
2002 | Wellington |
| Richard Clarke |
|
2002 | Wellington |
| Peter Woodhouse |
|
2002 | Auckland |
| Andrew Brown |
|
2002 | Auckland |
| Donald Stevens |
|
2002 | Wellington |
| Robert Fardell |
|
2002 | Auckland |
| Edwin Wylie |
|
2002 | Christchurch |
| Anne Hinton |
|
2002 | Auckland |
| Mary Scholtens |
|
2002 | Wellington |
| Maureen Southwick |
|
2003 | Auckland |
| Grant Illingworth |
|
2003 | Auckland |
| Philip Morgan |
|
2003 | Hamilton |
| David Goddard |
|
2003 | Wellington |
| Michael Ring |
|
2004 | Auckland |
| Harry Waalkens |
|
2004 | Auckland |
| Miriam Dean | .jpg)
|
2004 | Auckland |
| Francis Cooke |
|
2004 | Wellington |
| Tómas Kennedy-Grant |
|
2005 | Auckland |
| Helen Aikman |
|
2005 | Wellington |
| David Jones |
|
2005 | Auckland |
| John Burrows | .jpg)
|
2005 | Christchurch |
| Brian Keene |
|
2006 | Auckland |
| Bruce Gray |
|
2006 | Auckland |
| John Marshall |
|
2007 | Wellington |
| Bruce Corkill |
|
2007 | Wellington |
| Matthew Casey |
|
2007 | Auckland |
| Stephen Mills |
|
2007 | Auckland |
| Robert Lithgow |
|
2007 | Wellington |
| Stephen Kós | .jpg)
|
2007 | Wellington |
| Chris Gudsell |
|
2007 | Hamilton |
| Susan Hughes |
|
2007 | New Plymouth |
| Nicholas Till |
|
2007 | Christchurch |
| Deborah Chambers | .jpg)
|
2007 | Auckland |
| Campbell McLachlan |
|
2007 | Wellington |
| Karen Clark |
|
2007 | Wellington |
| Geoffrey Palmer | 
|
2008 | Wellington |
| David Heaney |
|
2008 | Auckland |
| Murray Gilbert |
|
2008 | Auckland |
| Jack Hodder |
|
2008 | Wellington |
| Jan McCartney |
|
2008 | Auckland |
| Simon Moore |
|
2008 | Auckland |
| Christine Gordon |
|
2008 | Auckland |
| Chris Finlayson | 
|
2012 | Wellington |
| Michael Heron |
|
2012 | Auckland |
| Philip Hall | |
2013 | Christchurch |
| Terence Stapleton |
|
2013 | Wellington |
| Richard Fowler |
|
2013 | Wellington |
| Simon Jefferson |
|
2013 | Auckland |
| Trevor Shiels |
|
2013 | Dunedin |
| Paul Dacre |
|
2013 | Auckland |
| Russell Fairbrother | 
|
2013 | Napier |
| Frances Joychild |
|
2013 | Auckland |
| Nathan Gedye |
|
2013 | Auckland |
| Peter Churchman |
|
2013 | Wellington |
| Peter Watts |
|
2013 | Auckland |
| Justin Smith |
|
2013 | Wellington |
| Graham Kohler |
|
2013 | Auckland |
| Matthew Muir |
|
2013 | Auckland |
| Gillian Coumbe |
|
2013 | Auckland |
| Les Taylor |
|
2013 | Wellington |
| Kate Davenport |
|
2013 | Auckland |
| Matthew Dunning |
|
2013 | Auckland |
| Philip Skelton |
|
2013 | Auckland |
| David Chisholm |
|
2013 | Auckland |
| John Pike | .jpg)
|
2013 | Wellington |
| Christine Meechan |
|
2013 | Auckland |
| Clive Elliott |
|
2013 | Auckland |
| Jonathan Eaton |
|
2013 | Christchurch |
| Daniel McLellan |
|
2013 | Auckland |
| Neil Campbell |
|
2013 | Auckland |
| Russell Bartlett |
|
2014 | Auckland |
| Stephen Bonnar |
|
2014 | Auckland |
| Paul David |
|
2014 | Auckland |
| Marie Dyhrberg |
|
2014 | Auckland |
| Antonia Fisher |
|
2014 | Auckland |
| Paul Rishworth |
|
2014 | Auckland |
| Paul Wicks |
|
2014 | Auckland |
| Prudence Steven |
|
2014 | Christchurch |
| Peter Whiteside |
|
2014 | Christchurch |
| Anita Chan |
|
2014 | Dunedin |
| David Laurenson |
|
2014 | Auckland |
| Matthew McClelland |
|
2014 | Wellington |
| Matthew Palmer | .jpg)
|
2014 | Wellington |
| Paul Radich |
|
2014 | Wellington |
| Margaret Casey |
|
2015 | Auckland |
| Mark O'Brien |
|
2015 | Wellington |
| Richard Boast | .jpg)
|
2015 | Wellington |
| Derek Nolan[16] | |
2016 | Auckland |
| Aaron Perkins[16] |
|
2016 | Auckland |
| Kieran Raftery[16] |
|
2016 | Auckland |
| David Bigio[16] | |
2016 | Auckland |
| Jane Anderson[16] | |
2016 | Auckland |
| Marc Corlett[16] | |
2016 | Auckland |
| Vanessa Bruton[16] | |
2016 | Auckland |
| Richard Raymond | |
2016 | Christchurch |
| John Prebble[16] | |
2016 | Wellington |
| Kenneth Johnston[16] | |
2016 | Wellington |
| Victoria Casey[16] | |
2016 | Wellington |
| Una Jagose[16] |  |
2016 | Wellington |
| John Dixon[17] | |
2017 | Auckland |
| Suzanne Robertson[17] | |
2017 | Auckland |
| Rachael Reed[17] | |
2017 | Auckland |
| Paul Borich[17] | |
2017 | Auckland |
| Adam Ross[17] | |
2017 | Auckland |
| Jenny Cooper[17] | |
2017 | Auckland |
| Simon Mount[17] | |
2017 | Auckland |
| Andrew Barker[17] | |
2017 | Auckland |
| Greg Blanchard[17] | |
2017 | Auckland |
| Campbell Walker[17] | |
2017 | Auckland |
| Grant Brittain[17] | |
2017 | Tauranga |
| James Every-Palmer[17] | |
2017 | Wellington |
| Tony Angelo[17] | .jpg) |
2017 | Wellington |
| Vivienne Crawshaw[18] |
|
2018 | Auckland |
| Paul Dale[18] |
|
2018 | Auckland |
| Maria Dew[18] |
|
2018 | Auckland |
| Bob Hollyman[18] |
|
2018 | Auckland |
| Andru Isac[18] |
|
2018 | Wellington |
| Fiona Guy Kidd[18] |
|
2018 | Invercargill |
| James Rapley[18] |
|
2018 | Christchurch |
| Belinda Sellars[18] |
|
2018 | Auckland |
| Anne Stevens[18] |
|
2018 | Dunedin |
| James Wilding[18] |
|
2018 | Christchurch |
| Stephen Hunter[19] | |
2019 | Auckland |
| Julie-Anne Kincade[19] | |
2019 | Auckland |
| Simon Foote[19] | |
2019 | Auckland |
| Janet McLean[19] | .jpg) |
2019 | Auckland |
| Nicolette Levy[19] | |
2019 | Wellington |
| Karen Feint[19] | |
2019 | Wellington |
| Len Andersen[19] | |
2019 | Dunedin |
| Jonathan Temm[19] | |
2019 | Rotorua |
| Lynda Kearns[20] | |
2021 | Auckland |
| Stephen McCarthy[20] | |
2021 | Auckland |
| Ron Mansfield[20] | |
2021 | Auckland |
| Laura O'Gorman[20] | |
2021 | Auckland |
| Fletcher Pilditch[20] | |
2021 | Auckland |
| Davey Salmon[20] | |
2021 | Auckland |
| Greg Arthur[20] | |
2021 | Wellington |
| Michael Colson[20] | |
2021 | Wellington |
| Victoria Heine[20] | |
2021 | Wellington |
| Kerryn Beaton[20] | |
2021 | Christchurch |
| Catherine Cull[21] | |
2022 | Northland |
| Bronwyn Carruthers[21] | |
2022 | Auckland |
| Nicholas Chisnall[21] | |
2022 | Auckland |
| David Cooper[21] | |
2022 | Auckland |
| Tiffany Cooper[21] | |
2022 | Auckland |
| Jason Goodall[21] | |
2022 | Auckland |
| Simon Mitchell[21] | |
2022 | Auckland |
| Andrew Butler[21] | |
2022 | Wellington |
| Stephanie Grieve[21] | |
2022 | Christchurch |
| Lisa Preston[21] | |
2022 | Christchurch |
| Judith Collins[22] | .png) |
2023 | Auckland |
| Philip Joseph[23] | |
2024 | Christchurch |
| Philip Shamy[23] | |
2024 | Christchurch |
| Todd Simmonds[23] | |
2024 | Auckland |
| Robert Stewart[23] | |
2024 | Auckland |
| Garry Williams[23] | |
2024 | Auckland |
| Zane Kennedy[23] | |
2024 | Auckland |
| Kelly Quinn[23] | |
2024 | Auckland |
| Katherine Anderson[23] | |
2024 | Auckland |
| Wendy Aldred[23] | |
2024 | Wellington |
| Timothy Stephens[23] | |
2024 | Wellington |
| Douglas Ewen[23] | |
2024 | Wellington |
| Anne Toohey[23] | |
2024 | Christchurch |
| Sarah Armstrong[23] | |
2024 | Auckland |
| Christopher Stevenson[23] | |
2024 | Wellington |
| Daniel Kalderimis[23] | |
2024 | Wellington |
| Alanya Limmer[23] | |
2024 | Christchurch |
| Sally Gepp[23] | |
2024 | Nelson |
| Samuel Wimsett[23] | |
2024 | Auckland |
| Nura Taefi[23] | |
2024 | Auckland |
| Richard Marchant[24] | |
2024 | Auckland |
| Alan Webb[24] | |
2025 | Auckland |
| Brian Dickey[24] | |
2025 | Auckland |
| Paul Keegan[24] | |
2025 | New Plymouth |
| Cassandra Nicholson[24] | |
2025 | Wellington |
| Simon Ladd[24] | |
2025 | Auckland |
| Balthazar Matheson[24] | |
2025 | Auckland |
| Tiana Epati[24] | |
2025 | Gisborne |
| Kevin Glover[24] | |
2025 | Auckland |
| Sarah Jerebine[24] | |
2025 | Auckland |
| Katie Hogan[24] | |
2025 | Auckland |
| Matthew Smith[24] | |
2025 | Wellington |
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