Sandra Grant

Areas of Practice
General Background
Professional Background
Legal Practice
Case History
Professional Membership

Areas of Practice

• Administrative and Constitutional Law/Public Law
• Building and Construction Law
• Civil Litigation
• Commercial and Contract Disputes
• Commercial Arbitration
• Commercial Litigation
• Competition Law
• Corporate and Securities Law
• Equity
• Forestry Litigation
• Intellectual Property
• Land Law and Property Litigation
• Partnership Law
• Tort/Trade Practices
  

General Background

Education

• Auckland Girls' Grammar School 1977 to 1981
• Auckland University 1982 to 1983
• Otago University 1984 to 1986

Academic Awards

• Rua I Gardner Entry Scholarship (awarded to top 3 new entrants based on entrance exam) 1977
• Latin Cup 1979

University Prizes

• University of Otago Award in law 1986
• Sir Thomas More prize (Equity) 1986
• Paterson & Lang Prize (Commercial Law and Property) 1987

Professional Background

• Admitted as Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand on 17 June 1988
• Employed as a staff solicitor with Russell McVeagh McKenzie Bartleet & Co November 1987 to July 1991
• Barrister Sole July 1991 to present.

Legal Practice

1987 to 1991 - Barrister and Solicitor, Russell McVeagh
1991 to Present - Barrister Sole

Case History

1. Brintons Limited v Feltex Furnishings of New Zealand Limited (HC) 1990 4 TCLR 100; [1991] 2 NZLR 677
2. Franklin Machinery limited v Albany Farm CentreLimited (HC) 1991 4 TCLR 671
3. Apple Computer v Apple Corps SA (HC) [1990] 2 NZLR 598; 3 PRNZ 78
4. Currie v Wansbone (HC) (1992) 5 PRNZ 700
5. Stubbs Enterprises Limited v Springfield Acres Limited (HC) (1992) 5 PRNZ 697
6. Cumberworld Contracting Limited v Foseco (NZ) Limited (HC) 1993 5 TCLR 534
7. Smythe v Bayleys Real Estate Limited (1993) (HC) 5 TCLR 454
8. Downley Properties Limited v Stirling (HC) (1993) 7 PRNZ 241
9. Iversen v Zendel Industries Limited (HC) (1993) 7 PRNZ 205
10. Fieldforce (NZ) Limited v Auchterlonie (HC) (1994) 7 PRNZ 563
11. Springfield Acres Limited (In Liquidation) v Abacus (Hong Kong) Limited (HC) [1994] 3 NZLR 502
12. Watson v Gilbert (HC) (1995) 5 TCLR 95
13. Calvon Robinson Industries v Kay Play Limited (HC) 1995 6 TCLR 722
14. Glev Pty Limited v Foodmakers (1992) Limited (HC) 1995 6 TCLR 714
15. Nordern v Blueport Industries Limited (HC) [1996] 3 NZLR 450
16. Stubbs Investments Limited v Thorp (HC) [1997] 1 NZLR 310
17. Denning v Tri-Star Customs and Forwarding Limited (HC)
18. Morrison Industries Limited v Masport Limited (PC) [1995] BCC 496
19. Dreux Holdings Limited v Attorney General (HC) (1995) 8 PRNZ 485
20. Dreux Holdings Limited v Attorney General (HC) (1996) 7 TCLR 82
21. Attorney General v Dreux Holdings Limited (CA) [1997] 7 TCLR 617; (1996) 5 NZBLC 104,073
22. Foseco New Zealand limited v Cumberworld Contracting Limited (1997) 6 NZBLC 99-398, 102,033
23. Stubbs v Thorp & Stone [1997] 1 NZLR 310
24. Wright v Benchmark Building Supplies (HC) (1997) 10 PRNZ 594
25. Beecroft v Auckland District Court [1999] 3 NZLR 672
26. MTM Funds Management Ltd v Force Holdings Ltd & Anor (2000) 14 PRNZ 657
27. Agio Tustees Co Ltd & Anor v Harts Contributory Mortgages Nominee Co Ltd & Anor (2001) 4 NZ ConvC 193,480
28. Rimini Ltd v Manning Management and Marketing Pty Ltd [2003] 3 NZLR 22
29. Crawford v Securities Commission [2003] 3 NZLR 160
30. Proprietors of Hiruharama Ponui Block Inc v Attorney General [2003] 3 NZLR
    478
31. Proprietors of Hiruharama Ponui Block Inc v Attorney General (No 2) [2004] 1 NZLR 394
32. Benchmark Building Supplies Ltd v Mitre 10 (New Zealand) Ltd & Anor (2004) 58 IPR 407 (CA)
33. Harte v Wood [2004] 1 NZLR 526
34. Clarkson & Anor v Whangamata Metal Supplies Ltd & Anor, Williams J, HC Auckland, (2004) 10 TCLR 1049
35. Otago Station Estates Ltd v Parker [2005] 2 NZLR 734, SCNZ.
    

Professional Membership

Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand.

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