Honourable Justice Mathew Downs

Justice Downs graduated from Otago University in 1993 with LLB (Hons).   He later completed an LLM (Hons, 1st class) at Cambridge University and a PhD at Otago University. His doctoral thesis was recognised by the Division of Humanities as exceptional.  He worked as a junior solicitor at Brewer Mazengarb in 1994, and then Assistant Crown Counsel at Crown Law between 1994-96.  From 1996-2005 he worked at Ben Vanderkolk & Associates and then Meredith Connell.  He rejoined Crown Law in 2005, later becoming Senior Crown Counsel.  There, he appeared regularly in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.  He is the editor of  Cross  on  Evidence  and  a  co-author  of  its  2017  edition.    Justice  Downs  was appointed a High Court Judge on 11 August 2016 and is Auckland-based.