Michael Hodge

+64 21 066 6396 | michael.hodge@sangrochambers.co.nz

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Michael joined the independent bar in 2021 and is an associate member of Hawkestone Chambers based in Auckland.

Michael is a highly experienced lawyer, having previously been a partner of Meredith Connell for more than ten years, and Chair of the firm’s Board.

He has extensive experience in public law and inquiries, professional standards and disciplinary proceedings, regulatory practice and compliance, private and public law compensation claims and claims for injunctive relief, and general civil litigation.

Michael regularly appears in judicial review proceedings in the High Court and Court of Appeal. He has represented clients in professional standards and disciplinary proceedings across all of the professional services (lawyers, financial advisors, accountants), real estate, construction, health, sport, and education sectors.

Michael has been appointed to act as amicus curiae in litigation in the Court of Appeal and the High Court, as counsel assisting the Coroner in coronial inquiries, and assisting the IPCA Inquiry into Police Investigations of Child Abuse.

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Qualifications

LLB (Hons) University of Auckland