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John Billington QC

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Tel: +64 9 307 9828
Mob: +64 21 445 208
Fax: +64 9 366 1599
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Qualifications

LLB (VUW)

Barrister Sole: 1989

Silk: 1996

Areas of Practice

Administrative and Constitutional Law / Public Law

Arbitrator

Building and Construction Law

Civil Litigation / General

Commercial Arbitration

Commercial Litigation

Criminal Law and Serious Fraud

Media Law and Defamation

Relationship Property

Sports Law

Professional Background expand

  • Commenced practice as barrister sole in 1989
  • Admitted to the rank of Queen's Counsel 1996
  • Member of the Arbitrators' and Mediators' Institute of New Zealand Inc (AMINZ)
  • Judge of the Courts Martial Appeal Court for New Zealand

Recent Experience expand

  • Currently Counsel in a number of commercial proceedings in the High Court and Court of Appeal.
  • Currently Counsel in a number of commercial arbitrations.
  • Currently Counsel for the defence and prosecution in major serious fraud proceedings.
  • Currently Counsel in defamation proceedings.
  • Currently Counsel for the defence of prosecutions under the Resource Management Act.
  • Currently Counsel in Construction Contracts Act litigation in the High Court and Court of Appeal.
  • Currently Counsel for party to the Pike River Royal Commission of Inquiry

Publications and Relevant Activites expand

  • 2011 - Presenter, NZ Bar Association seminar - "Trial Advocacy Techniques".
  • 2011 - Presenter, Legal Research Foundation seminar - "Expert Evidence in New Zealand".
  • Co-author New Zealand Law Society text "Introduction to Advocacy".
  • Author of New Zealand Law Society seminar papers "Serious Fraud in New Zealand".
  • Has delivered conference papers on sports law issues and is a member of ANZSLA.
  • Has chaired Appeal Tribunals for National Sporting Bodies.
  • Has delivered conference papers for the New Zealand Bar Association.
  • 1997 - Co-presenter with Honourable Justice Blanchard and J Fogerty QC NZLS Seminar Appellate Advocacy.
  • 1994 - Author of paper "Recent New Zealand Efforts to Combat Environmental Crime" for the International Society for Reform of Criminal Law, published Criminal Law Forum January 1996.
  • 1990-1992 - Law reporter, New Zealand Law Reports.