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Stephen Lukey Barrister

Barrister · Selwyn District East, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 216 Christchurch lawyers.

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Checked12 October 2026
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Stephen Lukey Barrister

Barrister · Selwyn District East, Christchurch

Where you stand#147of 216 lawyers
Overall health3.2/10across the eight areas

Going well

08Opening hours9.4

Where we can help

03Map positions5.105Facebook page5.102Reviews3.307Google search and traffic2.704Listings and social2.401Google listing1.306Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Stephen Lukey Barrister is a Christchurch-based lawyer operating from RD 6, Prebbleton, who specialises in tax law. He offers tax litigation, tax opinions, tax prosecutions and tax debt matters, and also handles criminal and regulatory prosecutions, child support and employment law issues. The practice highlights more than twenty years focused on tax-related work.

Stephen Lukey Barrister is a Christchurch lawyer based in RD 6, Prebbleton, who specialises in tax law. The practice presents itself as having over twenty years of experience in tax matters and meets clients from across the region for specialist legal advice.

The firm provides a range of tax law services including complex tax disputes, tax opinions, tax prosecutions, tax debt cases and matters relating to IRD powers. It also assists with criminal and regulatory prosecutions, with particular emphasis on financial crime and fraud. Additional work noted includes child support advice and employment law matters arising out of workplace disputes.

Clients come to Stephen Lukey Barrister for stressful, high-stakes matters such as Inland Revenue audits, prosecutions for alleged tax evasion or fraud, child support issues and disputes over tax debt. Reviews indicate clients find the firm able to help resolve difficult situations and there is a theme of strong endorsement in client feedback.

Locally, Stephen Lukey Barrister is distinguished by a long-standing focus on tax litigation and related financial crime work, offered from a Prebbleton base. The practice aims to support clients through contentious and technical legal processes and is presented as a specialist resource for tax-related and connected legal issues in the Christchurch area.

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01Google listingMarketbase business report

Your Google listing

The overall health of Stephen Lukey Barrister's Google Business Listing is low, with a score of 2.8 out of 10. This indicates significant room for improvement in completeness and optimisation. The most important findings are that the listing is not yet claimed and that there is limited description and few or no photos, which limits visibility and trust for potential clients.

Strengths

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    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
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    NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.
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    WebsiteYour listing links to your website, so a customer can move from Google to your own pages in one tap and read your account of the work before they ring.

Top three opportunities

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    ClaimedYour listing is not claimed, which means anyone can suggest an edit to it and you have no way to reply to a review or correct what is shown.
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    Description lengthThere is no real description on your listing, so when someone finds you on Google there is nothing in your own words telling them what you do.
  • 3
    Photos on the listingYou have no photos on your listing, or close to none, so a customer scrolling past sees a blank where every other business shows their work.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
1.3Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

The Google Business health for Stephen Lukey Barrister sits at 3.6 out of 10, which is below average, suggesting room for improvement in online reputation. The key finding is that the star rating sits in the top 10% while reviews are still growing and the owner has not yet responded to any reviews. This indicates strong satisfaction among current clients but limited engagement with feedback.

Strengths

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    Star ratingYour rating is among the highest in this market and it does its own selling - a customer sees it before they read anything else.

Top three opportunities

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    Review confidenceRating and review volume together sit well behind this market, which means a customer comparing you has both halves of the picture reading thin.
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    Response rateNone of your reviews have a reply, which means a customer reading them sees your happiest and your angriest customers with nothing from you in between.
  • 3
    Review countYour review count sits well below what buyers here are used to seeing, which means a customer comparing options side by side reads you as the less proven choice.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing all of them.
3.3Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Google reviewsChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #144 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Stephen Lukey Barrister shows a solid overall health on Maps search performance, with a 5.7 out of 10. This indicates decent visibility but room to grow, especially across multiple local suburbs. The top opportunities highlight stronger aggregate rankings and a borough presence that has risen from the bottom quartile, suggesting focused gains are possible by nurturing listings.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches less often than half your suburb, so on a search from nearby you sit below businesses a customer would otherwise treat as equal.
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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across more of the surrounding suburbs than the middle of the field, so customers searching from outside your own patch are finding you.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
5.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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2Top three for "tax attorney" in 16 suburbs, seen in 62
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Stephen Lukey Barrister15.0 ★ (1) · Barrister
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Johnston Law4.7 ★ (13) · Barrister
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Sidekick Selwyn5.0 ★ (5) · Barrister
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Argyle Welsh Finnigan4.6 ★ (9) · Barrister
Map positionsChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #106 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Citations: Overall health score is 4.1 out of 10, which indicates below-average presence across social platforms and directories. The business has an active LinkedIn profile that helps reach customers, offering a solid foundation for professional credibility, though other channels are missing. Strength is professional network visibility via LinkedIn; opportunity lies in adding social profiles and directory listings to improve discovery and trust.

Strengths

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    Lawzana LawyerWe can see your Lawzana Lawyer listing (https://lawzana.com/stephen-lukey-barrister) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Having a Facebook page at allWe could not find an active Facebook Profile page for your business, so anyone who goes there to check your hours, read your posts or send a message lands on nothing.
  • 2
    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 3
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
16 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 4 of them.
2.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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FacebookNo account found1
InstagramNo account found2
TiktokNo account found3
Listings and socialChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
You are #165 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Facebook pageCriticalWe could not find an active Facebook Profile page for your business, so anyone who goes there to check your hours, read your posts or send a message lands on nothing. Shown at a typical score for this market.
9 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 1 of them.
5.1Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Facebook pageChristchurch lawyers · 216 businesses
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Your website

The On-Page SEO health for Stephen Lukey Barrister shows an average level, with 4.7 out of 10. Favicon is present, page loads under 3 seconds, frames are not used, an SEO-friendly URL exists, and text content is sufficient. The main opportunities focus on meta description length, title tag length, mixed content risk, and improving text-to-page size balance.

Strengths

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    Domain UniquenessYour web address is yours alone, so everything your site earns - links, mentions, search standing - accumulates under your name and stays with the business.
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    FaviconThe tab your site opens in carries your own icon, so a customer with a dozen tabs going can find their way back to you by sight.
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    Page load speedYour home page appears in under three seconds, so someone tapping through from a search result meets your business rather than a blank screen while they decide whether to wait.

Top three opportunities

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    Separate sites linking to youOnly a handful of separate websites link to yours, well behind most of this market.
  • 2
    Meta descriptionThe summary under your name in search results is either too brief to say anything or long enough that Google cuts it mid-sentence.
  • 3
    The shape of your link profileYour links are piled onto a small number of sites for a profile this size, so they are doing less for you than the count suggests.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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How people find you on Google

The Website Traffic health for Stephen Lukey Barrister shows a low overall score, with room to grow both organic and paid visibility. The strongest near-term signal is that organic traffic is above the bottom 25%, suggesting momentum can be built by better keyword targeting and navigation. Paid activity is largely absent, indicating opportunities to start small campaigns and test messaging.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    What that traffic is worthSearch is delivering you nothing you would otherwise have to pay for.
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    What you spend on adsWe can see no paid search activity for your site, which in most local markets is the norm rather than a gap.
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    Monthly search visitsYour site draws fewer visitors from search than most businesses here, so most people looking for what you do are landing somewhere else.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
2.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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31About 0 visits a month from search, across 1 searches
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You are #158 for Google search and traffic
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Stephen Lukey Barrister's published hours largely match local demand for tax and legal services, with weekday mid-day openings aligning well with search patterns. The practice has no low-demand open hours, but several popular time slots remain closed on weekends and early mornings. Overall temporal alignment is strong, with scope to capture extra demand by modestly extending hours into a few high-traffic windows.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandYour hours cover more of the busy stretches than the middle of the field, so you are open for most of the searching that happens near you.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
9.4Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Stephen Lukey Barrister
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Hours 1
Monday9am-5pm
Tuesday9am-5pm
Wednesday9am-5pm
Thursday9am-5pm
Friday9am-5pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
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01Google listing3 opportunities

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page1 opportunity

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#147of 216 Christchurch lawyers
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