Hannah BartlettOpen Justice reporter - Tauranga·NZ Herald·11 Jul, 2026 03:00 AM11 mins to readA senior lawyer is facing misconduct charges brought by the Law Society's National Standards Committee, related to her alleged lack of supervision of junior staff, practising on her own account when she didn't have authority to do so, and a failure to provide professional services to a client. Photo / NZMEMissed deadlines, inadequate supervision, staff “churn”, and failures to clients all constituted a “system breaking down” at a law firm.
That was the underlying theme of the closing submissions by Timothy Bain, for the Law Society’s National Standards Committee, as he concluded the prosecution’s case against a senior lawyer charged
