Appointed Queen’s Counsel

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30406, 3 April 1964, Page 10

Appointed Queen’s Counsel

Mr K. B. Campbell, son of Mr W. H. Campbell, and the late Mrs Campbell, of 508 Selwyn street, has been appointed a Queen’s Counsel in London. He is 47. Mr Campbell was born in Christchurch and attended the West Spreydon School, Christchurch Technical College and Canterbury University College.

He left Christchurch for England shortly after his nineteenth birthday in 1935, and arrived in London with only a few pounds in his pocket. He obtained a job in a law office and studied at London University until the outbreak of World War IL Mr Campbell joined a tank transporter regiment as a trooper, was commissioned in the field and held the rank of major at the end of the war He served at Dunkirk, in Sicily and Italy. He had continued his law studies during the war. In 1945 he returned to Christchurch, but shortly afterwards was notified that he had passed his barrister’s finals. Returning to London immediately, Mr Campbell worked as a pupil for a year and was then admitted to the Inner Temple. He has latterly specialised in divorce and probate. As junior counsel, Mr Campbell appeared for six Nigerian wives of an English-

man who left his estate of £200,000 to his wives—polygamy being legal in Nigeria at the time. The will was contested by a nephew, but the Nigerian wives were successful as defendants in the action brought in the High Court of Nigeria. About two years ago, Mr Campbell was briefed in an action involving a Cabinet Minister in Singapore. He took the opportunity to visit Christchurch again. He is married with six children. His oldest daughter, Janet, aged 23, is a nurse, and his second daughter, Diana, aged 21, a reporter on a London newspaper. His eldest boy is at Harrow.