Chris Hubbert 
Partner
DDI (09) 300-6933
(chubbert@jacksonrussell.co.nz)

Chris has extensive experience in a wide range of matters that can be broadly classed as "property", including:

- sales and purchases of residential and commercial and rural properties;
- sales and purchases of small businesses;
- perpetual ground leases;
- business and other tenancies;
- preparing agreements and deeds of many kinds;
- preparing wills;
- probate, and administration of estates;
- preparing family trust deeds;
- trust administration;
- preparing charitable trust deeds;
- registering charitable trust deeds under Charitable Trusts Act and
  under Charities Act; and preparing society and company constitutions.

Chris is a trustee of a number of charitable trusts, including the Costley Training Institution Trust Board, the Auckland Cathedral Music Foundation, the Ronald Dellow Music Trust, and the Orchid Foundation Trust Board NZ, and a member of the board of management of the Dorial Choral Music Library.

With a long-time involvement in choral music (formerly a member of the Auckland Anglican Cathedral Choir and Dorian Choir, and occasional participant in other choirs), Chris is currently a member and deputy conductor of the chamber choir Orlando Singers.  He has also developed a keen floricultural interest in orchids, for over 20 years a member of North Shore Orchid Society, producer of that society's monthly magazine since 1994, president of the society 2004-2008.  A special interest is "slipper" (paphiopedilum) orchids; and he produces a quarterly magazine for the NZ Paphiopedilum Alliance.  He is an accredited judge of the Orchid Council of New Zealand, the New Zealand Orchid Society, and the Cymbidium Society of America orchid judging systems.  Another interest, though sadly too seldom indulged, is overseas travel, with particular interest in Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic Islands.