Thu, 7 Oct 2004

Patricia Courtney appointed to the High Court

Attorney-General Margaret Wilson today announced the appointment of Patricia Courtney as a Judge of the High Court. Justice Courtney graduated from the University of Auckland. In her early career she was an investigation officer with the Department of Trade and Industry, before joining the firm of Heaney Jones and Mason as a staff solicitor.

She then joined the firm of McElroy Milne, later becoming a partner. She was a founding partner of McElroys in 1992. Justice Courtney has specialised in insurance law with particular expertise in professional negligence cases relating to solicitors, accountants and trustees. Justice Courtney will sit in Auckland.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>