Appointment of High Court Judge

  • Christopher Finlayson
Attorney-General

Auckland Queen’s Counsel Matthew Muir has been appointed a Judge of the High Court, Attorney-General Christopher Finlayson announced today.

Justice Muir graduated with an LLB (Hons) from Auckland University in 1981 and became a staff solicitor with Holmden Horrocks & Co in Auckland.  In 1984 he took leave from Holmden Horrocks for postgraduate studies at the University of Virginia, graduating with an LLM.

In 1985 Justice Muir joined the partnership of Holmden Horrocks, working in civil litigation.  He left that firm in 1988 to join the partnership of Buddle Findlay, based in their Auckland office and specialising in commercial and banking litigation.

Justice Muir went to the independent bar in 1994 and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2013.

The new Judge will sit in Auckland.