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\nJack Oliver-Hood, 37, was pulled from the water at Hahei Beach shortly after 3pm on Monday but could not be resuscitated and died at the scene.
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Former colleagues are mourning the loss of a “bright” Auckland lawyer who died while swimming at a Coromandel beach.<\/p>\n
Jack Oliver-Hood<\/a>, who was 37, was pulled from the water at Hahei Beach shortly after 3pm on Monday.<\/p>\n Despite rescuers performing CPR, he could not be resuscitated and died at the scene.<\/p>\n Barrister Kevin Glover KC said he first met Oliver-Hood while he was a junior barrister at Shortland Chambers in Auckland from 2015 to 2016.<\/p>\n After completing his Master’s at Columbia University in the US, Glover said Oliver-Hood returned to Auckland and had been working as an independent barrister since 2020.<\/p>\n “Jack was a bright and very able lawyer. He did fantastic work, and he was very good on his feet.<\/p>\n “People had a huge and genuine affection for Jack.”<\/p>\n Glover said they had worked on several cases together, including representing LEGO in a trademark dispute with toy company Zuru.<\/p>\n “I have been talking to people overseas who we worked with on the LEGO case, and they’re absolutely gutted. Jack did a really good job connecting with people.<\/p>\n “He was a very good lawyer across quite different areas of practice that people don’t normally combine, with this strength in IP [Intellectual Property], which is where I worked with him, and also criminal cases, where he worked with very senior practitioners on very high-profile cases.”<\/p>\n “The IP community all knows each other and has been pretty hard hit by this.”<\/p>\n Oliver-Hood also worked on the high-profile murder appeals of Mark Lundy and Gail Maney.<\/p>\n He was the only son of well-known music producer and engineer Doug Hood<\/a>, who died in 2024.<\/p>\n Glover said they had a shared interest in music.<\/p>\n “I used to see Jack at gigs. He was very intertwined in the alternative music scene.”<\/p>\n