OSBORNE, Robert Alexander
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| Judge of: | High Court, Christchurch | Associate Judge since January 2009 | |||||||
| Specializations and Professional Interests: | Legal education, former Crown prosecutor | ||||||||
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Associate Judge Osborne has distributed a memorandum on how Associate Judge Courts are to be conducted in the South Island (excluding Blenheim) in the forseeable future. This can be viewed at http://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/from/announcements/announcements/Judge-Osborne-Memorandum-24032011.pdf. |
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| Background / Education: | LLB (Hons) and LLM,Canterbury University 1976
Rob Osborne was employed by the firm of Young Hunter and Co as a solicitor from 1976 and with Duncan Cotterill in 1978. Rob Osborne became Crown Counsel (and later Senior Crown Counsel) with the Hong Kong Government from 1980-1985. In 1986 Associate Justice Osborne returned to the firm of Duncan Cotterill as a partner and became a barrister sole from April 2007 |
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| Degrees: | University of Canterbury, LLB (Hons) 1972 | ||||||||
| Admitted to the Bar: | 1976 | ||||||||
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| Born: | 1956 | Sex: | Male | ||||||
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