{"id":127990,"date":"2025-10-14T21:05:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/?p=127990"},"modified":"2025-10-16T22:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:17:50","slug":"2025-cleary-prize-winner-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/?p=127990","title":{"rendered":"*2025 Cleary Prize Winner Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The New Zealand Law Foundation congratulates joint winners Caccia Armstrong and Hansaka Ranaweera on winning this year&#8217;s NZ Law Foundation Cleary Memorial Prize. This is a prestigious award given to a young barrister or solicitor who shows outstanding future promise in the legal profession.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td align=\"centre\" width=\"50%\">\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Image.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-127986 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Image-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Image-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Image-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Image-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Image-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Image.jpeg 1264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td align=\"centre\" width=\"50%\">\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Hansaka-Ranaweera-photo-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-127987 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Hansaka-Ranaweera-photo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td align=\"centre\" width=\"50%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025-Cleary-Prize-Caccia-Armstrong.pdf\">Click here to read Caccia&#8217;s full bio<\/a><\/td>\r\n<td align=\"centre\" width=\"50%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025-Cleary-Prize-Hansaka-Ranaweera.pdf\">Click here to read Hansaka&#8217;s full bio<\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand Law Foundation congratulates joint winners Caccia Armstrong and Hansaka Ranaweera on winning this year&#8217;s NZ Law Foundation Cleary Memorial Prize. This is a prestigious award given to a young barrister or solicitor who shows outstanding future promise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/?p=127990\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127990"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127998,"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127990\/revisions\/127998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}