By RNZ
The president of the Law Society has expressed disappointment a lawyer is accused of flouting the Auckland lockdown rules to travel to a holiday home in Wānaka.
Hannah Rawnsley fled alert level 4 with her partner William Willis using essential worker exemptions to go to Hamilton, from where they took a commercial flight to Central Otago.
The Law Society president, Tiana Epati, said lawyers are provided with an official letter to travel to priority court hearings.