Lawyer Sentenced After Boxing Assault | Auckland News

Auckland News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Aug 21, 2026 · 1m

A New Zealand lawyer in his fifties has been convicted of assaulting his 12-year-old son during a boxing session in April 2022, leaving the boy hospitalized with serious injuries. The case dragged on for years, described by the judge as “glacial,” before the lawyer pleaded guilty just before his son’s testimony. Despite acknowledging the breach of trust and the victim’s age as aggravating factors, the judge sentenced him to supervision, citing no re-offending risk and granting name suppression. The Law Society emphasized they take such allegations seriously but clarified that criminal charges…