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Financial law expert hospitalised after freak blast

Thursday 25th of October 2012

Chapman Tripp partner Tim Williams, who has been described by one international publication as "the best all round adviser on funds management" in New Zealand, is currently unable to walk after the four-metre blast, which occurred in his Auckland home on Saturday.

Williams was admitted to Middlemore Hospital with second-degree burns on 16% of his body, the vast majority of the burns on his legs.

Although he was subsequently released he said he would be going back into Middlemore this afternoon because his legs were getting worse.

“I can’t walk at the moment because my legs have swelled up… it looks like something out of one of those sci-fi movies,” he said.

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