Wed, 28 July 2004
New High Court Judge
Attorney-General Margaret Wilson today announced the appointment of Helen Diana Winkelmann as a Judge of the High Court.
Justice Winkelmann graduated from Auckland University and for a number of years was a partner with Phillips Fox. She
started practice as a barrister sole in 2001.
Justice Winkelmann specialises in commercial litigation, insolvency law and medico legal law. As part of that specialist
experience she has delivered a number of Auckland District Law Society seminars on aspects of company law including
creditors remedies and fiduciary duties.
Outside of the law Justice Winkelmann has been a trustee of the Starship Foundation and the Lynfield College Development
Trust.
The new judge will sit in Auckland.
ENDS