{"id":243856,"date":"2026-01-21T05:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/243856\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T05:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:47:09","slug":"auckland-lawyer-jack-oliver-hood-dies-at-coromandel-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/243856\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland lawyer Jack Oliver-Hood dies at Coromandel beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4NTED0G_copyright_image_154566\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" alt=\"Hahei beach, Hahei, Coromandel Peninsula.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nAn Auckland lawyer drowned at Hahei beach on Monday.<br \/>\nPhoto: AFP\n<\/p>\n<p>The man who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/584454\/man-dead-after-drowning-near-coromandel-beach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died<\/a> at a Coromandel beach this week was an Auckland lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>Police have named him as 37-year-old Jack Oliver-Hood, who worked on the high-profile murder appeals of Mark Lundy and Gail Maney.<\/p>\n<p>He also represented Lego in a trade mark dispute with toy company Zuru.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver-Hood was pulled from the water at Hahei Beach shortly after 3pm on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Despite rescuers performing CPR, he could not be resuscitated and died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Surf Lifesaving said the tragedy happened at an unpatrolled beach, with the nearest surf lifeguards stationed eight kilometres away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Auckland lawyer drowned at Hahei beach on Monday. Photo: AFP The man who died at a Coromandel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-243856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}