Bill Bevan, Porirua, QSM
For services to the community. Mr Bevan is a lawyer who, in 1995, founded the award-winning Whitireia Community Law Centre, and was its managing solicitor until June 2010. The Whitireia Community Law Centre provides legal services to around 6,500 people each year. He was instrumental in establishing the Coalition of Community Law Centres of Aotearoa. Mr Bevan has appeared regularly on Radio New Zealand National, and on television, and wrote a column in ‘Kapi Mana News’.