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George graduated from the University of Auckland with a BA/LLB(Hons) in 2022. While studying, George won the Richmond Chambers Prize in Jurisprudence.
Prior to joining as a Junior to Shortland Chambers, George worked as a Judges’ Clerk at the Auckland High Court. He also served in various roles at the Auckland University Students’ Association while he was a student, including as President from between 2019 and 2020.
George tutors at the Auckland Law School and is on the Executive of the Legal Research Foundation. He is interested in all areas of civil litigation, with a particular interest in contract, tort, equity, public law and regulatory disputes.
Connor graduated from the University of Auckland in 2022 with a BA/LLB (Hons). He received various scholarships and prizes, including a Dean’s Academic Excellence Award. Connor was admitted in 2023.
Before joining Shortland Chambers as a junior, Connor was a Judges’ Clerk at the Auckland High Court and a tutor at the University of Auckland Law School. He has also worked at MinterEllisonRuddWatts and at Milford Asset Management in their legal team. He is currently the lead tutor of contract law at the University of Auckland. His work has been published in the Auckland University Law Review and Public Interest Law Journal of New Zealand.
Connor is interested in all areas of civil litigation, with particular interest in contractual disputes, company law, competition law, defamation and administrative law.
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Harry is originally from Northern Ireland. He graduated from the Queen’s University Belfast with a first class LLB(Hons), placing third in his graduating year. During his studies, he attained a series of academic achievements, including the highest mark in the LLB(Hons) dissertation, which all undergraduate law students are required to write. Harry was admitted to the bar in September 2024.
Harry joins Shortland Chambers after serving for two years as clerk to Justice David Goddard in the Court of Appeal. Alongside clerking at the Court, Harry taught Tort Law to undergraduate law students at Victoria University Wellington, delivering lectures, tutorials and week-long seminars. Harry maintains a strong academic interest in Tort Law.
Harry has a long-standing interest in oral advocacy, and has achieved success in this regard, competing on the university, national and international stage in mooting competitions. For example, Harry was part of the team which represented New Zealand and reached the semi-finals in the 2022 International Criminal Court Moot Court Competition; he won the 2022 DLA Piper Law and Technology Moot, organised by the University of Auckland; and, most recently, as the only finalist not admitted to the bar at the time, he was the individual winner of the 2024 Law Society of New Zealand (Wellington Branch) and Cuncannon Law Moot, the final of which was judged by Justice La Hood.
Harry has a broad interest in the law, both academically and in practice. He has a particular interest however in commercial chancery work and the Law of Obligations.
Sam graduated from Victoria University of Wellington in 2020 with an LLB(Hons)/BA. He received first place rankings in three of his four honours research papers and in several other law subjects. He was admitted to the bar in December 2021.
Before joining Shortland Chambers, Sam worked for two years as a Judge’s Clerk to Justice O’Regan at the Supreme Court. During his clerkship, he worked on a variety of civil and criminal appeals, and also assisted with leave applications and jurisdictional questions. Previously, Sam also worked as a Legal & Policy Adviser for Te Aka Matua o te Ture | Law Commission, was research assistant for both a former Court of Appeal Judge and a leading human rights law academic, and tutored law at Victoria University. He currently tutors contract law at the University of Auckland. He has published academic work in the New Zealand Law Journal and the Victoria University of Wellington Law Review.
Sam is interested in all areas of litigation, with a particular interest in contract, trusts and equity, torts, administrative law, and human rights.
Catherine graduated in 2020 with an LLB with First Class Honours from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she was awarded the Department of Law Commendation Prize for Outstanding Academic Performance and the Atkin Chambers Mooting Prize. She also holds an LLM with Distinction from the University of Auckland. She was admitted to the bar in March 2023.
Before joining Shortland Chambers, Catherine worked as a lawyer at Bell Gully, and tutored commercial law at the University of Auckland. She has previously volunteered for a human rights organization in Ghana, assisted on civil procedure reform in the UK, and worked in several commercial law firms, including two US law firms in London.
Catherine is interested in all areas of litigation, with a particular interest in commercial disputes, regulatory investigations, media law, and public law.
Lewis graduated with an LLB(Hons)/BA from the University of Auckland in 2021. He received the subject prize in Legal Ethics, the Johnston Foundation Prize in Company Law and a Dean’s Academic Excellence Award. Lewis was admitted to the bar in 2022.
Before joining Shortland Chambers, Lewis worked as a Judges’ Clerk at the Auckland High Court. He has also worked as a research assistant to legal academics in areas involving human rights, in the Constitutional and Human Rights team at Crown Law and at Simpson Grierson.
Lewis is interested in all areas of litigation, with a particular interest in contractual disputes, company law, tort, human rights and administrative law.
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Tara graduated with a double degree LLB (Hons) and BSc (physiology and psychology) from the University of Auckland in 2023. She received various prizes and scholarships, including a Dean’s Excellence award and first place in the NZLSA national witness examination competition.
Before joining Shortland Chambers, Tara worked for two years as a Judges’ Clerk to the Hon Justice Collins and the Hon Justice Cooke at Te Kōti Pīra o Aotearoa | Court of Appeal. She has worked as a Teaching Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington and a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Auckland. She has also worked at MinterEllisonRuddWatts, Meredith Connell, and McGoldrick Law.
Tara is interested in all areas of litigation, with a particular interest in family law, company law, insolvency, trusts, and torts.
Mingze completed his LLB(Hons)/BSc at the University of Auckland, where he received several scholarships and academic recognitions, including achieving first in exam in Financial Markets Law. He was admitted to the bar in October 2021.
Mingze is a doctoral candidate at the University of Auckland, where he served as an adjunct lecturer for the Commercial Law Department. He was also the Senior Lead Tutor for both the Law of Torts and Equity and a tutor for Public Law, Criminal Law, Law of Contract, and Commercial Law at the University. Additionally, he serves as a judge for the Auckland Law School Moot Court and was the Editor-in-Chief of Issue 10 (2023) of the Public Interest Law Journal of New Zealand. Previously, he was an editor for the Auckland University Law Review, which published his Honours dissertation in Volume 27(1) (2021).
Before joining Shortland Chambers, Mingze was a litigation solicitor at a top-tier boutique firm, a Judges’ Clerk, and earlier, an associate Trade Mark examiner at IPONZ. He also has over a decade of senior management experience before law school.
Mingze is the Co-Convener of the NextGen Lawyers Committee of the Law Association of New Zealand and a member of both the Access to Justice Committee of the New Zealand Law Society and the Criminal Lawyers Committee of the NZ Asian Lawyers Association.
Amy completed her LLB(Hons) at the University of Auckland in 2020. She graduated among the top of her cohort, receiving a Dean’s Excellence Award and a Senior Scholar Award. She was admitted to the bar in May 2022.
Before joining Shortland Chambers, Amy worked for two years as a Judge’s Clerk at the Auckland High Court. She was also employed as a tutor in the Law Faculty at the University of Auckland, teaching Legal Method.
In addition to her law degree, Amy holds a BA(Hons) in English Literature from Christ Church college, University of Oxford, and an MA(Hons) and PhD from the University of Auckland. Her experience in academic research, writing, editing and teaching informs her approach to litigation practice and legal research.
Amy is interested in all areas of civil litigation, with a particular interest in trusts and equity, relationship property, judicial review and torts.
Alex joins chambers having received an LL.M with a certificate in Environmental and Energy Law from Duke University School of Law, which he obtained as a Fulbright and Borrin Foundation scholar.
While studying in North Carolina, as part of Duke’s Environmental Law and Policy Clinic — Alex worked pro-bono in fisheries litigation. He was also a staff editor on Duke’s environmental law journal and received a Dean’s award for academic achievement.
Previously he worked as a Judges’ Clerk at the High Court at Auckland/ Te Kōti Matua o Aotearoa and then as a solicitor at Wilson Harle, a leading specialist litigation firm in Auckland.
Alex graduated with LLB(Hons) and BSc (geography) degrees from the University of Auckland in 2020, where he also received several prizes and represented New Zealand in the International Criminal Court Moot in the Hague.
Alex has published in the New Zealand Journal of Environmental Law and worked as a tutor in Auckland Law School’s Land Law course.
He is interested in all areas of litigation, with particular interest in environmental, maritime, regulatory and public law matters.
