Drawing on my significant experience in commercial and public law litigation, I provide pragmatic and commercial solutions to client’s complex strategic and technical issues. 

Clients value my clear, analytical thinking under pressure.  I distil critical issues and facts efficiently from complicated situations.  I place a high value on integrity and empathy in what are often challenging situations for my clients and colleagues, and I become an integral and trusted part of any team.

Civil and commercial law

Representative clients include:

• A large New Zealand property development company in relation to various contractual and resource management proceedings.
• An air cargo airline in complex cartel litigation in the English High Court and related parallel proceedings overseas.
• A global pharmaceutical company in a contractual dispute with a major competitor.
• A farm owner seeking damages in the New Zealand High Court from a manufacturer of a faulty product which allegedly caused salmonella outbreaks.
• A defendant to proceedings in the English High Court and parallel proceedings overseas in connection with a failed joint venture in a real estate investment.

Public and administrative law

I have broad experience acting for regulatory bodies and charitable and community organisations in regulatory proceedings, judicial review proceedings and contentious governance matters.  Representative clients include:

• The Ministry of Health in judicial review proceedings challenging the licensing of pharmacies.
• Post settlement governance entities of iwi in relation to various contentious and governance issues.
• A trustee and director of several national Māori organisations involved in governance disputes, including corruption and conflict of interest issues.
• A lawyer in the Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal defending charges of professional misconduct.
• Regulatory bodies established under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 on competence and disciplinary matters.
• Disenfranchised members of an incorporated society in judicial review and breach of contract proceedings.

I also appeared as junior counsel to amicus curiae in judicial review proceedings brought by a serving prisoner challenging government correctional policy.