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Compare top-rated barrister lawyers in Auckland. Filter by category, credentials, and rating to find your perfect match.

43 lawyers found for barrister in Auckland

Antoinette Vujnovich, Barrister logo
3.8 (8 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Family law practice based in Herne Bay, Auckland, providing legal services in care of children, guardianship, protection orders, adoption, paternity, and relationship property matters. Led by Antoinette Vujnovich, an experienced barrister practising since 1998.

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Karen Monet logo
5.0 (1 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Karen Monet is a barrister practising exclusively in family law, based in East Tamaki, Auckland. She provides legal services for separation and divorce, parenting arrangements, domestic violence protection and defence, relationship property agreements, and independent legal advice. She is a trained collaborative law practitioner offering a non-confrontational alternative to family court proceedings.

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Shabani Law logo
5.0 (7 reviews) | AUCKLAND

We provide expert legal support across immigration, criminal, and property law. From guiding migrants through complex visa pathways to defending clients in court or securing property transactions, we deliver practical advice, strong representation, and real results.

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AW LAW logo
4.9 (76 reviews) | AUCKLAND

AW Law is a specialized legal firm in Manukau, Auckland, led by barrister Alan Williams, with expertise in criminal, immigration, and refugee law. The firm provides legal aid services and represents clients across district courts and tribunals. AW Law handles criminal defence, immigration visas and appeals, refugee claims, and parole applications.

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GML Lawyers logo
4.7 (73 reviews) | AUCKLAND

GML Lawyers (Gibbs Mills Livingstone) is an Auckland-based law firm established in 1988, providing a full range of legal services including property law, relationship property, estate planning, trusts and wealth management, business law, employment law, tax law, civil and commercial litigation, and land compensation claims for individuals, families, and businesses.

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Amrit Kaur Barrister logo
5.0 (11 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Amrit Kaur is a barrister specialising in family law, including parenting orders, guardianship disputes, domestic violence, and protection orders. Based in Papakura, New Zealand, she provides legal aid services and offers guidance in language clients can understand. Initial 30-minute consultations available for $50.

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Integrity Law Limited (incorporating Swayne McDonald Lawyers) logo
4.4 (34 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Integrity Law Limited was formed in 2020, incorporating Alistaire Hall and Swayne McDonald Lawyers. The firm provides property law, deceased estates, family trusts, family law, and conveyancing services from its Manurewa office, serving South Auckland with over 40 years of combined experience.

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Lawyer Help logo
4.6 (59 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Barrister Melanie Coxon provides affordable legal advice for criminal and traffic matters including drink driving, work licences, S106 discharges, and S94 community service orders. Based in Auckland with 25 years of experience, serving clients nationwide.

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Ross France logo
5.0 (1 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Ross France is an employment law barrister with 30 years experience, advising both employers and employees across the greater Auckland area. Based in Manukau, South Auckland, he handles conflict resolution, employment agreements, mediation, and litigation before the Employment Relations Authority and Employment Court. All consultations are confidential and by appointment only.

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Quadrant Chambers logo
3.8 (8 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Quadrant Chambers is a set of independent family law barristers practising across the greater Auckland area and at national level. The chambers covers relationship property, care of children, domestic violence, adoption, spousal maintenance, child support, mediation, elder law, and Hague Convention matters. Established in 2010, it operates from Manukau, Auckland.

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Arunjeev Singh | Legal Consultancy Law Firm logo
3.7 (46 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Auckland-based barrister Arunjeev Singh provides immigration, criminal, and family law services from his office in Papatoetoe, primarily serving South Auckland communities. His practice also covers employment law, civil litigation, wills and estate, and traffic offences.

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Adam J Holland logo
5.0 (100 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Adam Holland is an Auckland-based barrister and criminal defence lawyer with over 20 years of experience. He represents clients on all criminal charges including drug, sexual, serious violence, fraud and traffic cases, and criminal appeals.

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Norling Law logo
4.7 (106 reviews) | AUCKLAND

At Norling Law, we specialise in resolving complex commercial disputes and insolvency matters. As a boutique firm, we focus exclusively on what we do best, guiding clients through uncertainty with clarity, confidence, and results-driven strategy. Our purpose is simple: to deliver practical outcomes in the face of complex legal challenges.

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McCabe Family Law logo
4.4 (60 reviews) | AUCKLAND

McCabe Family Law is an Auckland-based family and property law firm, servicing all family courts in the Auckland region. Led by Principal Elise McCabe, the firm provides legal services across the full spectrum of family law including separation, divorce, child custody, adoption, relationship property, and conveyancing.

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John Munro - Auckland Criminal Lawyer logo
5.0 (84 reviews) | AUCKLAND

John Munro is a criminal defence barrister based in Auckland, New Zealand with over two decades of experience. He represents clients in cases involving sexual offences, drugs, violence, fraud, dishonesty, sports misconduct and court appeals. His chambers, Sentinel Chambers, is located in Auckland CBD and serves clients throughout New Zealand.

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Tania Smitton Barrister logo
5.0 (1 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Family Law Barrister based near Waitakere court, Henderson, West Auckland, New Zealand. Provides both private and Legal Aid services. Specialises in care of children, domestic violence (protection orders), adoptions, Oranga Tamariki, and paternity matters.

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Daniel Schellenberg Barrister logo
4.9 (28 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Daniel Schellenberg is a criminal defence barrister based in Auckland, New Zealand. He provides legal representation for clients facing serious criminal charges and appeals across all court levels nationwide.

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Bloem Law logo
4.8 (21 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Bloem Law is Auckland's full service criminal defence specialist practice, with a team of exceptional lawyers specialising only in criminal law. Led by Anoushka Bloem, a senior criminal lawyer with over two decades of experience, the firm handles the full spectrum of criminal matters from jury trials for serious crime to appeals, bail, and sentencing.

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Barry Hayes Barrister logo
3.9 (7 reviews) | AUCKLAND

A small, cost-effective law practice based in Henderson, West Auckland, providing legal advice and representation in family law, relationship property, disputed estates, criminal law, immigration, and employment law. Legal aid is available for those who qualify.

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Jeremy Sutton Barrister logo
4.8 (170 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Jeremy Sutton is a senior family lawyer based in Auckland at Bastion Chambers. With over 30 combined years of experience, Jeremy and his team specialise in high net worth, financially complex divorce cases involving trusts, businesses, disputed estates and significant investment portfolios.

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Jeremy Bioletti Law logo
5.0 (10 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Jeremy Bioletti is a senior barrister with 30+ years of legal experience defending clients in New Zealand. He specialises in serious fraud and complex criminal defence, including white-collar crime, investment fraud, customs fraud, and immigration fraud. Based in Auckland, he offers trial representation, appeals, second opinion case analysis, and legal aid services for eligible complex cases.

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Catherine Stewart logo
4.9 (42 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Catherine Stewart is an award-winning employment lawyer and barrister who acts for both employers and employees in all areas of employment law. She has around 30 years' experience and has successfully argued high profile cases in the Employment Court and Court of Appeal.

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Bruce Scott Muller Law logo
5.0 (10 reviews) | AUCKLAND

The Bruce Scott Muller Law partnership was dissolved effective 31 October 2023. The former practice of Bruce Scott Stevens (Craig Stuhlmann) was incorporated into Lovegroves Lawyers, St Heliers. The former Muller Law practice was incorporated into Wynyard Wood. Jennifer Haw continues as a barrister.

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Armstrong Murray logo
5.0 (25 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Takapuna lawyers offering solid, down-to-earth legal advice. We will protect your interests in a practical, personal and cost-effective way.

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Rick Williams Associates logo
4.4 (7 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Rick Williams Associates is a small barristers and solicitors firm based in Albany, Auckland. The firm helps clients with personal and commercial legal matters, offering expertise across trusts, commercial law, property, financing, employment, estate planning, and conveyancing. Their practice is built on trust, pragmatic advice, and strong client relationships.

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Hong Hu Lawyers logo
5.0 (2 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Hong Hu Lawyers Limited is an Auckland-based law firm specialising in immigration, property, commercial, trust, relationship property and court works. The firm serves local, national and international clients from countries across East Asia and the Pacific. Its multilingual lawyers speak English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Japanese and other Pacific languages.

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William Gong Lawyers logo
3.0 (4 reviews) | AUCKLAND

New Zealand High Court barrister and solicitor providing legal services in immigration, property, and business law. Assists with all categories of NZ visa applications, refugee claims, and immigration appeals. Multilingual service in English, Chinese, and Cantonese.

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Omega Chambers logo
5.0 (2 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Omega Chambers is an Auckland-based criminal defence law firm specialising in serious criminal charges and complex litigation across New Zealand. Their experienced criminal barristers provide strategic advocacy for clients facing criminal and traffic offences at all levels of seriousness.

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Joon Yi Barrister logo
3.0 (2 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Joon Yi is a criminal law specialist barrister based in Auckland, New Zealand. He represents clients in criminal, traffic, and tax prosecution matters across all New Zealand courts, and is a director at Pōhutukawa Chambers. The practice also handles discharge without conviction applications, appeals, and a range of serious criminal offences.

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Ian Brookie - Barrister logo
4.9 (36 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Ian Brookie is a barrister in Auckland with over 20 years of experience specialising in criminal defence, professional disciplinary tribunal representation, and regulatory defence. He operates from Sentinel Chambers and appears in all levels of New Zealand courts, handling matters from traffic offences to murder and manslaughter.

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Pohutakawa Chambers logo
4.7 (3 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Independent barristers delivering culturally aware, client-focused criminal defence across Aotearoa. Pōhutukawa Chambers is a female-led criminal defence chambers established in 2022, combining courtroom excellence with cultural awareness and a commitment to representing diverse clients throughout New Zealand in the High Court, District Court, and Court of Appeal.

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Todd Simmonds KC logo
5.0 (1 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Barrister sole specialising in criminal and regulatory litigation with extensive trial experience in the High and District Courts and appearances as lead counsel in the Court of Appeal. Admitted to the bar in 1990 and in sole practice since 2004. Former senior prosecutor with Meredith Connell, the office of the Auckland Crown Solicitor.

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Emma Priest logo
4.9 (93 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Leading criminal defence barrister based in Auckland, New Zealand, undertaking jury trials, appeals and parole work for private and legally-aided clients. Over 25 years of experience across the full spectrum of criminal law including serious violence, sexual offending and drug crime.

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Isabella Stevenson Barrister logo
5.0 (1 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Isabella Stevenson is an Auckland-based family law barrister practising at Trinity Chambers, specialising exclusively in family law. Her practice areas include relationship property, spousal maintenance, care of children, and family violence matters.

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Alex McDonald Barrister logo
3.7 (3 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Alex McDonald Barrister is a civil litigation lawyer with over 25 years' experience handling disputes involving trusts, estates, wills, relationship property, and intellectual property. She represents clients at all levels of the New Zealand court system including the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.

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Claire Farquhar Barrister logo
5.0 (12 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Claire Farquhar is a barrister specialising in criminal law. She represents defendants at all phases of a criminal proceeding, from seeking bail for clients in custody, through to defending clients appearing in jury trials and arguing appeals in the higher Courts of New Zealand.

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Lawyer Help logo
4.3 (78 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Barrister Melanie Coxon provides affordable legal advice for criminal and traffic matters including drink driving, work licences, S106 discharges, and S94 community service orders. Based in Auckland with 25 years of experience, serving clients nationwide.

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Rodney Harrison QC logo
5.0 (1 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Rodney Harrison QC is a leading New Zealand barrister based in Auckland. Appointed Queen's Counsel in 1994, he is a senior Silk renowned as an expert in commercial disputes of all kinds and is frequently retained to take matters on appeal. He is a member of the Bars of New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Samoa, and Tonga.

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Danielle Beston, Barrister logo
4.4 (7 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Danielle Beston is a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand, specialising in criminal law, traffic law, drink driving, and limited licence applications. With over 20 years of experience, she provides expert legal advice and representation to clients throughout New Zealand.

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Steven Lack | Barrister logo
4.2 (5 reviews) | AUCKLAND

Steven Lack is an experienced Auckland-based criminal defence barrister specialising in serious crime, appeals, and regulatory matters, providing strategic legal representation to clients facing high-profile and complex criminal cases across New Zealand.

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Helen Radinovich logo
AUCKLAND

Helen Radinovich is an Auckland-based family law barrister specialising in relationship property, care of children, child support, maintenance and economic disparity, and contracting out agreements. She is a lead provider for legal aid and a FLAS (family legal advice service) provider.

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Andy Wei Barrister logo
AUCKLAND

Andy Wei is a Chinese-born, Western-educated barrister sole in Auckland, specialising in criminal litigation including trials, bail applications, appeals, and proceeds of crime matters. Fluent in English and Mandarin, he accepts private instructions across New Zealand.

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Finding the Best Barrister Lawyer in Auckland

If you need a barrister lawyer, Auckland is a sensible place to look — close enough to keep things efficient, and large enough that multiple providers compete on price, turnaround, and service. This page gives you a shortlist of verified Auckland lawyers plus a quick primer on how to pick the right one.

Why Use a Auckland Lawyer for Barrister?

  • Local proximity: A Auckland-based lawyer can be on site faster and is easier to follow up with when you have questions.
  • Specialised barrister workflow: Providers serving barrister clients have the right tools, paperwork, and process already dialled in.
  • Easier due diligence: A Auckland address means you can meet in person before committing — the best due diligence you can do.
  • Scales with you: Starting small? Most Auckland lawyers take small jobs. Growing? They'll absorb larger work as you scale.

What to Look for in a Barrister Lawyer

Not every Auckland lawyer is the right fit. Check these four things before signing on:

Transparent Pricing

Ask for a written quote. If a Auckland lawyer won't put pricing in writing, walk away.

Turnaround

Get a clear timeline up front. Vague answers on barrister jobs usually mean delays down the line.

Insurance & Credentials

Confirm the Auckland lawyer carries proper insurance and has the credentials needed for the work. Get it in writing.

Real-Person Support

Can you reach a human by phone or email within the same business day? The best barrister lawyers flag issues proactively — they don't wait for you to ask.

The Barrister Onboarding Flow

Once you pick a Auckland lawyer, onboarding typically looks like this:

  1. Enquiry & quote — You send a short intake describing the scope, timing, and any constraints. They reply with a quote.
  2. Agreement — You sign the service agreement and confirm a start date.
  3. Starter job — A small first job validates the workflow end-to-end before you commit at volume.
  4. Go live — Once the starter clears, the work flows on a recurring basis without you babysitting it.
  5. Ongoing review — Periodic check-ins on quality and timing keep the relationship on track.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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