Qualifications
BCom, BA (Hons) (Auck)
LLM (Hons) (Cambridge)
MJur (Distinction) (Auck)
Admitted: May 1992
Barrister Sole: December 2010
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Areas of Practice
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Commercial Litigation
Criminal Law and Serious Fraud
Employment Law
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Occupational Health & Safety Litigation
Securities Law
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General Background
Marc has appeared a lead or sole counsel in numerous judge alone hearings in
civil and criminal matters (for example regulatory prosecutions for a variety
of Government regulatory agencies including the Civil Aviation Authority, New
Zealand Customs, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and others; for
private clients and for the Crown in civil applications including debt
recovery, interim, interlocutory and Mareva injuctions; for the Crown in habeas
corpus and judicial review proceedings; for the Department of Corrections in
Parole Board hearings; for the New Zealand Police on summary prosecutions, bail
hearings, bail appeals and depositions hearings).
He has appeared as lead or sole counsel in numerous employment law disputes
in the Employment Tribunal, the Employment Relations Authority, and the
Employment Court.
His appearances include lead or sole counsel in numerous Health and Safety
prosectuions for the Crown and for the defence.
He has appeared for the crown as lead or sole counsel in more than 100
criminal jury trials in the District and High Court.
Other appearances include:
- Appearing for the New Zealand Police as lead counsel at depositions on
three murder trials, and for the Crown as second counsel at trial.
- Appearing as counsel in numerous High Court appeals from summary
prosecutions, both criminal and regulatory.
- Appearing as for the Crown (on secondment) in more than 30 criminal appeals
before the Court of Appeal.
- Acting as solicitor on numerous large scale commercial litigation cases,
and as such advising on litigation strategy, drafting court proceedings and
preparing evidence.
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- Senior Solicitor, Russell McVeagh ( 2008 - 2010)
- Associate, Meredith Connell (2003 - 2007)
- Crown Counsel: (Seconded to) Crown Law (2006)
- Senior Solicitor, Russell McVeagh (1996 - 1998; 2000 - 2002)
- Solicitor, Simpson Grierson (1992 - 1994)
- Todd Pohokura Ltd v Shell Exploration NZ Ltd and OMV New Zealand Ltd (with
Jim Farmer QC)
- Greymouth Gas Kaimira Ltd and others v GXL Royalties Ltd (with Stephen Kos
QC)
- Commerce Commission Input Methodologies work for Vector Ltd (with Alan
Galbraith QC)
- Department of Labour v Icepak Coolstores Ltd and others (Health and Safety
in Employment Act prosecution arising out of the explosion of Icepak coolstore
in Hamilton)
- Fisher and Paykel Financial Services Ltd v Karum Group LLC (with Alan
Galbraith QC - copyright infringment)
- R v Moses and others (with Paul Davison QC - Nathans Finance)
- R v Graham and others (with Paul Davison QC - Lombard Finance)
- R v Schofield and others (Belgraves Finance)
- R v Gui and others (Class A drugs charges)
- R v NS (rape)
- R v AA (rape)
Awards
- Gary Davis Memorial Medal for Oral Advocacy (Auckland University)
(1991)
- Stout Shield for Oral Advocacy (Auckland University) (1991)
- Auckland University Oral Advocacy Team South Pacific Advocacy
Championships
- Rhodes Scholarship Nomination (Auckland University) (1992)
- Case note published Auckland University Law Review (1992)
- Cleary Memorial Prize for the Most Outstanding Young Solicitor in New
Zealand (New Zealand Law Society) (1993)
- Spencer Mason Travelling Scholarship in Law (Spencer Mason Trust)
(1994)
- Pegasus Scholarship (Cambridge Commonwealth Trust) (1994)
- Pegasus Placement Scholarship (The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple,
London) (1994)
- Fellow Cambridge Commonwealth Society (1994)
- Article published Auckland University Law Review (1994)
- Jennings Prize for Law (Wolfson College) (1995)
- Senior Prize in English (2002)
- Graduate Scholarship in English (2005)
