Joubert Law Limited is a boutique law firm in the heart of Johnsonville, Wellington, led by principal and director Henriëtte Joubert. Henriëtte opened her own practice in February 2023 after a legal career that began in South Africa — including an LL.B from the University of Pretoria, an LL.M specialising in Labour Law, and years as a partner in a law firm — and continued in Upper Hutt after her admission as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand in March 2018. From 17 November 2025 the firm operates from Level 1, 31 Johnsonville Road. The practice concentrates on three areas that touch everyday life: family law, including contracting out agreements, separation and division of relationship property agreements, and child care agreements; conveyancing, covering transfers under sale and purchase agreements, registration of mortgages and refinancing; and trusts and succession, including wills, enduring powers of attorney and trusts. Henriëtte works alongside Kelly Moorman, her personal assistant and legal secretary of four and a half years, whose two decades of secretarial experience span family, criminal, civil litigation, employment, conveyancing, commercial, and patent and trademark law. The result is a small, steady team that handles personal legal matters personally, from a first phone call through to settlement.
Step off Johnsonville Road and up to Level 1 at number 31, and you will find one of Wellington's northern suburbs' smaller and more personal law firms. Joubert Law Limited is a boutique practice led by principal and director Henriëtte Joubert, who opened the firm in Johnsonville in February 2023 after nearly two decades in law across two countries. From 17 November 2025 the practice operates from its new premises at Level 1, 31 Johnsonville Road, continuing to serve clients in Johnsonville and the wider Wellington region.
The firm is deliberately small. Alongside Henriëtte is Kelly Moorman, her personal assistant and legal secretary, who has worked with her for four and a half years. Clients deal with a known, consistent team rather than a rotating cast — something many people value when the matters at hand are as personal as a separation, a house purchase, or putting their affairs in order.
Joubert Law's work falls into three broad areas.
**Family law.** The practice prepares contracting out agreements, separation and division of relationship property agreements, and child care agreements. These are the documents that give shape and certainty at some of the most emotionally charged moments in life, and having them drafted properly at the outset can save families real difficulty later.
**Conveyancing.** For buyers, sellers and borrowers, the firm handles the transfer of property pursuant to Sale and Purchase Agreements, the registration of mortgages, and refinancing. It is the legal machinery behind property transactions, taken care of by a lawyer who has done conveyancing in both South Africa and New Zealand.
**Trusts and succession.** The firm prepares wills and enduring powers of attorney and advises on trusts — the quiet, foundational work that protects families and makes things easier for the people who come after us.
Henriëtte started her legal career in South Africa. She graduated with an LL.B from the University of Pretoria in 2001 and also obtained an LL.M with specialisation in Labour Law from the University of South Africa. She practised as a partner in a law firm from February 2004 until she and her family moved to New Zealand in July 2014. She was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand on 8 March 2018 and worked in Upper Hutt until February 2023, when she decided to open her own practice in Johnsonville.
Her experience spans family law, employment law, general civil litigation, ACC matters and conveyancing. She has appeared in the Family Court, the District Court and the Employment Court, and was junior counsel in both the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. That depth of advocacy experience sits behind even the most straightforward transactional work in the office.
Kelly Moorman has twenty years of experience as a personal assistant and legal secretary at law offices in Upper Hutt and Wellington. Her secretarial background covers an unusually wide range: criminal law, family law, civil litigation, employment law, conveyancing, commercial law, and patent and trademark law. Whatever direction a matter takes, there is experienced, steady support behind it — and a familiar voice answering the phone.
Joubert Law Limited is at Level 1, 31 Johnsonville Road, Johnsonville, Wellington 6037 — a new address from 17 November 2025. You can phone 04 461 6098, or email henriette@joubertlaw.co.nz or kelly@joubertlaw.co.nz directly. Whether you need a will drawn up, a relationship property agreement documented, or a purchase settled, the first step is simply a conversation with a small team that will handle it personally.