Auckland Crown Solicitor Brian Dickey Resigns

Auckland Crown Solicitor Brian Dickey has resigned his position and intends transferring to the Bar this summer season.

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Dickey’s departure is the most current in checklist of litigators who have still left Meredith Connell in the earlier year, like Nick Williams, Kim Francis and Leo Farmer.

The business introduced the appointment of five new partners very last 7 days.

Dickey, who has handled a extensive selection of profile prosecutions together with the Grace Millane murder, has held the Auckland Crown warrant for eight years nd been a Meredith Connell partner for 22 yrs.

A press assertion from his business office said he will continue to be Crown Solicitor, overseeing the prosecution of critical crime in the Auckland area,  and chair of the company until eventually a new Crown Solicitor is appointed by the Legal professional-Common and commences in the function, a procedure predicted to choose some months.

As Crown Solicitor, he the prosecutions of public corruption in local government in R v Borlase, grave drug-troubled violence in R v Blom,  and the murder of Constable Matthew Hunt and attempted murder of Constable David Goldfinch in R v Epiha.

In the early 2010s, he was prominent prosecuting finance enterprise scenarios immediately after the World-wide Financial Crisis, including R v Petricevic.

He claimed that it experienced been an honour and a privilege to provide the Crown, with the authority of the Attorney Normal delegated to the Solicitor-Standard and, by way of that, the public as Crown Solicitor.

“None of us who prosecute severe crime at MC and the other Crown Solicitor workplaces at any time overlook the victims and whānau , who open up to us in personal and in open court docket about the harm suffered by them or their beloved ones from violent and other critical crimes.

“The New Zealand Police and several professionals who assist people impacted by crime have my  abiding respect.”

He thanked Solicitor-Normal Una Jagose QC and Deputy Solicitor-General Madeleine Laracy and her group at the Crown Legislation Place of work for their management, route, professionalism and wisdom, for their unwavering help of the Crown Solicitors’ Community and for being so prepared to interact with the Crown prosecutors at MC, like in finding  principled effects on sensitive matters.

“Nobody could do this career without a brilliant, really knowledgeable and fantastically properly trained team powering them, and the Crown and I have been extremely very well served in that regard by everyone at MC,” he reported.

“My senior Crown staff of Alysha McClintock, Brett Tantrum and Robin McCoubrey and until finally recently David Johnstone are the finest criminal prosecutors and colleagues any lawyer could hope to get the job done with.

“I am similarly extremely proud of the advancement of the upcoming era of Crown leadership in Auckland like Fiona Culliney, Henry Steele, Sam McMullan, Claire Paterson, Matthew Nathan and of all the several attorneys who conduct Crown get the job done inside of my warrant region. 

“As Aotearoa’s most significant litigation firm by much, MC has been in the privileged position of currently being capable to invest a lot more in ongoing training of the up coming generation of prosecutors and other litigators than any other, including in our superb new schooling courtroom room in our new MC Centre in Auckland.”

The organization has its individual observe courtroom to educate its litigators from new premises in downtown Auckland.

Dickey reported that he hoped his legacy will be possessing led the modernisation of MC and the practices of the Auckland Crown.

“Over the final eight yrs, MC has labored to give significant effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi in carrying out the warrant, started the journey of establishing a relationship with tangata whenua, tangata moana and in celebrating all the diversity of Tāmaki Makaurau in everything we do.

“From Te Kuhunga in secondary schools by means of to continual on-task teaching, we have established reliable pathways to provide the Crown for folks of all genders, orientations, faiths and cultures.

“The partnership appears to be forward to continuing to provide equally the Crown and the total community. Our ongoing modernisation will be taken care of and enhanced by all individuals who observe me at MC.”

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