A penchant for law runs in the blood for one local girl, who just became the fifth generation of her family to practice law in New Zealand.
Last month Zoe Johnston, 24, was admitted to the bar at the Napier High Court in front of her father, godfather and family friends.
She admits the law played a role in her life from a young age but said it wasn't until she got to university that she decided it was really for her.
"My dad is a lawyer in Hastings so I grew up knowing more about that than a lot of other things. It was always an option but I took science in my first semester before deciding I wanted to try law. I think it's important for society to have lawyers who want to help regulate society and follow the legal system."
Miss Johnston's great, great, great grandfather was Sir Francis Bell, a lawyer in Wellington in the 1850's and the father of Sir Francis Dillon Bell, who was Attorney General and Prime Minister of New Zealand.