Gary Harrison
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| Degree Held: Barrister Sole: | LLB (Auck) 1970 |
Areas of Practice
General Background
Professional Background
Case History
Recent Experience
- Administrative & Constitutional Law
- Admiralty
- Alternative Disputes Resolution
- Banking & Finance
- Building & Construction
- Civil Litigation
- Commercial Arbitration
- Commercial & Contract Disputes
- Commercial Litigation
- Equity
- Environment & Local Government
- Insurance
- Land Law & Property Litigation
- Mediation
- Resource Management
- Tort Liability
- Trusts
- Founding Director and CEO of Shortland Chambers Ltd.
- Counsel assisting Royal Commissioner in Erebus Air Crash Inquiry.
- NZ Law Society Inaugural Litigation Skills Instructor.
- Member of High Court Mediators Panel.
- Admitted to the Bar in 1970
- Common Law Advocate with Grierson Jackson & Partners 1968-1972
- Simpson Coates & Clapshaw 1972-1973
- Butler White & Hanna 1972-1978
- Barrister 1978 to date
- President, Auckland Medico-Legal Society 1992
- Registrar for Private Investigators and Security Guards 1996 to 2010.
- Barry v Auckland City Council [1975] 1 NZLR 233
- Judah v Auckland City Council [1975] 1 NZLR 695
- Rodney County Council v Unit Subdivision [1975] 1 NZLR 343
- Aetna Life v Grace Bros [1974] 2 NZLR 577
- Barry v Auckland City Council (CA) [1975] 2 NZLR 646
- Shadbolt v Auckland City Council [1975] 2 NZLR 765
- Ross v No 2 Town & Country Planning Appeal Board [1975] 2 NZLR 321
- Auckland City Council v Hapimana [1976] 1 NZLR 731
- Cowper v Takapuna City Council [1976] 1 NZLR 224
- Ross v No 2 Town & Country Planning Appeal Board (CA) [1976] 2 NZLR 206
- Barton v Auckland City Council [1977] 1 NZLR 732
- Auckland City Council v Blackie (CA) [1977] 1 NZLR 208
- Auckland City Council v King [1977] 1 NZLR 429
- Connell v Auckland City Council [1977] 1 NZLR 630
- Transport Ministry v Markland (CA) [1977] 1 NZLR 11
- Stott v Rodney County Council [1977] 1 NZLR 665
- Air New Zealand v Mahon (CA) [1981] 1 NZLR 614
- Air New Zealand v Mahon (No. 2 ) (CA) [1981] 1 NZLR 618
- Re C (a solicitor) [1982] 1 NZLR 137
- Soljan v Spencer (CA) [1984] 1 NZLR 618
- Turner v Superannuation & Mutual Savings Limited [1987] 1 NZLR 218
- Hay v Laurent Construction Limited [1987] 2 NZLR 184
- Holmes v Australasian Holdings Limited [1988] 2 NZLR 303
- Marquet v Marquet [1992] 3 NZLR 742
- Buttle v Allen (as Official Liquidator of Buttle & Co Sharebrokers Ltd (In Liquidation)) (CA) [1994] 1 NZLR 396
- Mountain Road (No. 9) Ltd v Michael Edgley Corporation Pty Ltd [1999] 1 NZLR 335
- Smith Chilcott Ltd v Auckland City Council [2001] 3 NZLR 473
- Freestyle Enterprises Ltd v Starfin Group Ltd [2008] 1 NZLR 266
- Chellew v Excell [2009] 1 NZLR 711
- Counsel for Shell NZ Ltd for all upper North Island development.
- Counsel for plaintiff in South Auckland land dispute claim for $3 million.
- Counsel for defendant in breach of agency claim for $13 million.
- Successful claim against Transit New Zealand for compulsory acquisition of land.
- All mediations undertaken for High Court successful.
- Successful appearance for practitioner before NZ Law Society Disciplinary Tribunal.
- Successful opposition to application for leave to appeal to Supreme Court.
- Successful claim against insurer on professional indemnity policy.