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Deborah Chambers (Debroah Anne Tohill) was born on 22 March, 1961 in North Shore, New Zealand, is an A 20th-century New Zealand women lawyers. Discover Deborah Chambers's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old?
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Debroah Anne Tohill |
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Relationship property and trust lawyer King's Counsel |
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62 years old |
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Aries |
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22 March, 1961 |
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22 March |
Birthplace |
North Shore, New Zealand |
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North
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Deborah Chambers Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Deborah Chambers's Husband?
Her husband is Sir Robert Chambers (m. 2004-2013)
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Sir Robert Chambers (m. 2004-2013) |
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Deborah Chambers Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Deborah Chambers worth at the age of 62 years old? Deborah Chambers’s income source is mostly from being a successful lawyer. She is from North. We have estimated Deborah Chambers's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Deborah Anne, Lady Chambers (née Tohill, born 22 March 1961) is a New Zealand King's Counsel specialising in relationship property and trusts law.
Born on the North Shore in Auckland on 22 March 1961, Chambers grew up in the working-class suburb of Glenfield in a State Advances house.
She attended Takapuna Primary School, Carmel College and Auckland Metropolitan College, an alternative state school.
She graduated from the University of Auckland in 1982 with a BA/LLB.
She married Dr Charles Hollings in 1987, and the couple had two children.
In 1989, she went to the bar joining Shortland Chambers.
In 1994 she appeared with Alan Galbraith QC in the Privy Council acting for Richard Prebble, then Minister of State-Owned Assets in Prebble v Television New Zealand Ltd.
She was married to the New Zealand Supreme Court judge, Sir Robert Chambers from 2004 until his death in 2013.
In 2004, she married Justice Robert Chambers of the New Zealand Court of Appeal, and became a step-mother to his two sons.
In 2007, she joined Bankside Chambers and was appointed a Queen's Counsel the same year.
She is described as a "divorce guru" and "the Divorce Queen".
Chambers has been counsel in many significant equity, trust and relationship property cases in New Zealand.
She advocated for broadening the definition of "property" to include for example a spouse or partner's enhanced earning capacity in Z v Z and for better recognition of economic disparity in cases like M v B on behalf of traditional wives.
More recently, she acted as counsel for the wife in Clayton v Clayton.
The decisions of the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court in that case rewrote the landscape in regard to trust law in New Zealand.
Chambers has consistently been placed on the power list of New Zealand’s lawyers, most recently as the 42nd most powerful lawyer in the country and the only female QC in private practice to be listed in the 2022 power list.
In all recent years including 2024, Chambers was ranked as the high net worth barrister at the New Zealand Bar in regard to the handling of relationship property and trust litigation matters generally and of high profile divorce cases in particular.
She held that position at both the Global and Asia-Pacific Chambers and Partners Guide with the Guide spotlighting her achievements as including multi-jurisdictional aspects and attracting “especially favourable notice”.
The Chambers Guide noted that interviewees widely acknowledge her to be a preeminent practitioner in her field, one source unhesitatingly calling her “the very top relationship property lawyer in the country” and adding “she is a fearless advocate, unflinching in her dedication to advancing her client’s case.” In March 2022 and 2023 she was listed as the Leading Family and Relationship Property Law Barrister in Doyles Guide.
Justice Chambers was appointed as a Supreme Court judge in 2012.
He died suddenly on 21 May 2013 as a result of a brain aneurism.
He was made a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2013 Queen's Birthday Honours, but as royal assent was given to the appointment before his death, the knighthood took effect from 20 May 2013.
Deborah Chambers sponsors the annual Justice Sir Robert Chambers Memorial Moot held by at the University of Auckland Law School.
In 2015, Chambers' eldest step-son, David, commenced legal proceedings against the executors of his father's estate seeking greater provision than provided in his father's will.
David's claims in regard to removing Chambers and her fellow executor, the family solicitor, were unsuccessful.
He was also unsuccessful in seeking to impose a constructive trust.
After graduation, she worked as a solicitor at Butler White & Hannah, a Crown prosecutor at Meredith Connell, and a solicitor at Russell McVeagh MacKenzie Bartleet & Co. She also spent a year in Glasgow, Scotland, as a procurator fiscal depute prosecuting crime.