Clive is a barrister, patent attorney and arbitrator. Before going to the Bar, he was a partner and headed the litigation team at Baldwin Shelston Waters.

Clive is the immediate past President of the New Zealand Bar Association.

He is a past Council Member of the Auckland Branch of the New Zealand Law Society and the Legal Practice Division of the International Bar Association (IBA). He is also a past co-chair of the Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Committee of the IBA and a past president of the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand (IPSANZ).

He was convenor of the Intellectual Property Committee of the New Zealand Law Society for a period of 10 years and remains a member of the Intellectual Property Committee. 

He is a co-author of the Lexis Nexis loose-leaf texts: Copyright and Design; and Patents and Trade Marks.

He has in the past been a part time lecturer in the post-graduate Masters course at both the Department of Law and the Department of Commercial Law at Auckland University and has taught the course "Selected Aspects of IP".

He is a frequent writer and commentator on IP and information technology issues and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Intellectual Property Forum.

He is named in the International Who's Who of Patent Lawyers, the International Who's Who of Internet & E-Commerce Lawyers and the World Trademark Review's World's Leading Trademark Professionals.

Alan attended Auckland Grammar School before commencing his law degree at Auckland University where he graduated with LLB (Hons). He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1967 and attended Oxford University where he gained a BCL in 1970. Alan went to the Bar in 1979 and was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1987.  In 1986 he was a founding member of Shortland Chambers.

Whilst dedicating most of his time to the Law, Alan has maintained his passion for athletics and is a keen runner, successfully competing in World Masters Championships over the years. He is also known for his interest in horse racing and breeding and is proud to be part owner of a successful stud farm in the Waikato.

I act for and advise clients on a wide range of civil and commercial disputes, appearing regularly in the High Court and appellate courts.  I have particular experience and expertise in appellate work, insurance law, company law, equity, the interpretation of contracts and other documents, remedies, vendor and purchaser, commercial leases, unit titles, and easements and covenants.  

I was previously an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Auckland.  My research has been published in leading journals such as the Cambridge Law Journal, Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, the Insurance Law Journal, and the New Zealand Law Review.  I am a co-author of leading texts on company law and land law.

I am an Associate of AMINZ and on its Arbitration Panel.

Daniel McLellan QC is a broad civil, commercial and media law barrister.  He specializes in trial and appellate advocacy and advice in most fields but particularly media, commercial, property and insurance law.

In the last few years he has appeared in numerous High Court trials including as counsel for a defendant in the long running Houghton v Saunders (Feltex) shareholders’ class action, the appeals from that matter to the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, and in all courts in Trust Power v Commissioner of Inland Revenue.

In 2018 he was counsel for one of the successful defendants in a competition case brought by the Commerce Commission against real estate agencies alleging price fixing (Commerce Commission v Lodge Real Estate Ltd).

He has been involved in many media cases involving most issues affecting old and new media including defamation, suppression, contempt, privacy and central government election issues.

Daniel accepts arbitral engagements as counsel and arbitrator and has represented parties in litigation in overseas jurisdictions including the Cook Islands and Tonga.

Daniel regularly advises professionals, businesses and their insurers in relation to professional negligence, insurance coverage, conflicts and other ethical issues.  He advises insurers and reinsurers on all areas of liability, general and life insurance, directors’ and officers’ liability and professional indemnity.  He accepts instructions from insureds and insurers.

He also takes instructions in relations to regulatory investigations including financial markets and competition, and criminal and civil proceedings arising out of such matters. 

Daniel is the 2018 Director of the New Zealand Law Society’s Litigation Skills Programme.

My practice principally involves commercial dispute work.  I have had a particular focus on contractual disputes, tort, construction and structural engineering issues, regulatory matters, including trade practices, judicial review and property disputes.  I recently acted for TVNZ in the Sky TV copyright litigation, now settled.  I have a specialist practice in defamation.  I have acted for the Commerce Commission on a number of major consumer protection proceedings, including litigation over the fees provisions in the Credit Contracts Consumer Finance Act 2003, where the Supreme Court has upheld the Commission’s position on the interpretation of the CCCFA.

I attended Takapuna Grammar School, the University of Auckland and the University of Pennsylvania.  I have taught at law schools in New Zealand, the United States and Canada.

Adam practises in civil, corporate, and commercial law (including insurance), and regulatory crime (securities, corporate, trade practices, environmental).

Adam attended Auckland Grammar School and thereafter the University of Auckland, where he completed his degree in 1988. Adam then worked as a judges' clerk in the High Court at Auckland, before joining the litigation department of Kensington Swan in 1991. He completed a master's degree at the University of Virginia in 1992, and returned to Kensington Swan where he appeared - both with senior advocates and alone - in numerous courts and tribunals throughout the country.

Adam joined Chapman Tripp's litigation department as a partner in 1996, where he worked for the next 18 years on cases great and small, and on corporate/commercial advisory matters. For some years Adam has been recognised by Chambers & Partners as a "Band 1" lawyer in litigation and dispute resolution, and in insurance. Adam commenced practice as a barrister sole at Shortland Chambers in March 2015.

Nic practises in most areas of civil/commercial litigation and in employment law. He has extensive trial experience and is known for his client skills and advocacy. He is an accredited and experienced mediator (CEDR).

Nic has acted for and advised clients on a wide range of issues and disputes. He has represented clients in many courts and tribunals and often in long and complex cases.

Nic has advised and represented a range of clients; including: government departments, national and international companies, insurers, investment companies, banks, local authorities, manufacturers, retailers, trustees, sporting clubs.

In appropriate cases, Nic will take instructions directly from clients, without an instructing solicitor. He can advise clients whether that is appropriate for them.

Between 2001 and 2010, Nic practised from Tanfield Chambers, a leading commercial and chancery barristers' chambers in London. He remains an associate member of Tanfield Chambers.

Daisy's practice covers advice and advocacy in a broad range of commercial disputes, including intellectual property litigation, contract disputes, insurance matters, company and shareholder disputes, and commercial lease disputes. She has also advised and acted in connection with both seeking and opposing applications for interim relief and has been appointed by the New Zealand Courts as independent counsel to supervise the execution of search orders (formerly known as Anton Piller orders).

Peter joined Shortland Chambers in 1998 prior to which he was a partner at Grove Darlow & Partners. A graduate of the University of Auckland, he gained a Senior Law Prize in 1984 and subsequently an LLM Hons. He specialises in civil and commercial litigation including construction disputes.

Peter's experience includes vendor and purchaser and other land law issues; tort liability; company, director and shareholder disputes; wills and trusts; insurance; insolvency; financial and general commercial disputes.

In his spare time Peter enjoys boating, skiing and travelling.

My practice is focused on commercial cases in the High Court. I joined Shortland Chambers in 2016 after eight years as a partner at Gilbert Walker, a specialist litigation firm.

In the past few years I have acted at trial and on appeal in the bank swaps litigation, the Green trust litigation and the Torchlight penalty fee litigation; in the ongoing Fuji Xerox accounting litigation; in civil and criminal cases arising from major corporate collapses; twice as counsel assisting the Court; and in other matters for ANZ Bank, the Commerce Commission, Korda Mentha, Precinct Properties, Vector and Vero Liability. Earlier in my career I worked at the Court of Appeal as Judge's Clerk to the late Sir Ivor Richardson, at Russell McVeagh, and for four years in the litigation team at Herbert Smith in London.

I hold a BA/LLB (Hons) from the University of Auckland and an LLM from Harvard University, which I attended as a Fulbright Scholar. I was admitted to the bar in New Zealand in 1998, in New York in 2003, and as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2003. I have been recognised as a leading individual in Who’s Who Legal, the Legal 500 and Chambers, where I am currently listed in Band 1.

I have contributed to legal education and the profession as a lecturer at the University of Auckland, as a faculty member on the Litigation Skills course, and as a Law Society Standards Committee member. I currently sit on the New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal. I am involved in a range of community projects as a trustee of the Hugo Charitable Trust.

Kevin practises in the area of commercial disputes.  About half of his work relates to intellectual property and the other half involves general civil and commercial disputes.  He holds a Masters degree in law from the University of Cambridge, presents lectures and seminars to practitioners and students and writes for a number of legal publications.  He regularly advises on complex commercial disputes and acts as lead counsel on trial and appellate cases, as well as interim injunction applications.

He is a recognised expert in intellectual property and has acted as sole or lead counsel in high profile cases involving copyright, trade mark infringement and registrability (including IPONZ oppositions), patents, design rights, passing off, the Fair Trading Act, domain name issues and breach of confidence.  Examples of Kevin’s recent cases are set out below.  He also adjudicates on domain name disputes as an Expert for the New Zealand Domain Name Commissioner.  Kevin has been named as a leading barrister for intellectual property disputes in New Zealand by Doyle’s Guide (2016, 2018) and World Trademark Review (2017, 2018).

Kevin also advises and acts on a wide range of general civil and commercial disputes, mainly relating to land/property (including leases, caveats, agreements for sale and purchase and partition under the Property Law Act), contract and insolvency.  Other recent matters include:

• technology disputes;
• media law, including pre-publication defamation advice for publishers/broadcasters and recipients of requests for comments, defamation claims and advertising standards complaints;
• agency, equity, trust and fiduciary duty disputes;
• franchise agreements;
• shareholder disputes and other Companies Act issues; and
• judicial review.

Jane provides direct and pragmatic advice to individual and corporate clients across a wide range of practice areas. She is experienced in litigation of all sizes and at all Court levels, primarily in commercial, corporate, insurance, contract, regulatory, trust and property matters.

She has acted on large scale commercial disputes and in domestic and international arbitration. She accepts appointments as an Arbitrator and is on the AMINZ Arbitration Panel.

Jane has a passion for running and has competed in numerous marathons and half-marathons. She is kept grounded by her teenage daughters who constantly remind her that they are above the law.

Andrew is an experienced trial and appellate advocate.  He has a broad practice encompassing most areas of commercial dispute.  As well as general contract and tort claims, he has particular interests in the areas of trust and estate litigation, company law, public works compensation, insolvency, construction law, professional liability and land law. 

A selection of some of Andrew's more significant instructions can be seen in his Case History.

David was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. He completed a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts at Concordia University in Montreal where he graduated with distinction in 1983.

He attended the Faculty of Law at McGill University (also in Montreal) where he obtained an LLB and a BCL, graduating with Second Class Honours in 1988.

David emigrated to New Zealand in 1989. He has worked in law since that time and began practice as a Barrister in May 2003.

David became a member of Shortland Chambers in 2008. David provides advisory and advocacy services to a diverse range of commercial, institutional and private clients.

John graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with a law degree.  He first commenced practice in a mid-sized litigation firm in Wellington where he later became the Senior Common Law Partner. 

John joined the independent Bar in 1989 and took silk in 1996. 

John has very wide experience in all forms of litigation and in particular in trial work where he has acted as senior counsel in a number of nationally significant cases. 

Whilst John dedicates most of his time to the law he has a background in representative golf, motor sport and is an avid sailor. 

John’s interest in sport has led to his having a significant involvement in sports law issues. 

John acts as pro bono counsel for the S.P.C.A. and Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand Inc.

Greg is a specialist commercial litigator. He has the skill and experience needed to successfully resolve every kind of business dispute.

He is expert in resolving disputes concerning:

• Contracts
• Companies
• Real estate
• Construction
• Financing
• Trusts
• Insolvency
• Taxation

Greg appears at all levels of the New Zealand courts. He is also well-versed in alternative methods of dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation.

Before joining the independent bar in 2008 Greg was a litigation partner of the firm Kensington Swan.

Paul has been a Litigation partner at Glaister Ennor, Auckland, since June 1993 (senior litigation partner since 1999), acting in a wide range of legal subject-matter typically arising in an established urban law firm with a large client base in property and commercial work, estates and trusts, and with an independent litigation practice.

Paul is also an experienced arbitrator in commercial disputes.

John joined Shortland Chambers at the start of 2015, after eight years as a partner at the law firm Meredith Connell.

John's practice combines his expertise in three key areas:

• Commercial litigation;
• Regulatory law, in particular in the competition, fair trading areas, and securities areas; and
• Criminal law, both as a prosecutor and as a defence counsel.

John has extensive experience as a trial and appellate advocate. He has appeared at all levels of courts in New Zealand.

• Fellow, Legal Research Foundation
• Director of Research, Legal Research Foundation 1988-2001
• Editorial Board, New Zealand Law Review 1989-date
• Legal Advisor to Primates, Anglican Church
• Chancellor, Anglican Diocese of Auckland
• Royal Auckland and Grange Golf Club Captain 2008-9, President 2017-18
• President, Auckland Medico-Legal Society, 1998

Bruce is both a trial and appellate advocate.

Bruce practises in a wide range of areas of civil and public law.

Bruce has led trials and hearings in cases involving tort law, contracts of insurance, sale, purchase and valuation of shares in businesses, international trade, ownership of intellectual property, sale of goods, media law and defamation, and trusts.

In public law, Bruce has appeared in cases involving Judicial Review of administrative action, Inquiries, Fisheries, Local Government and property development, political parties and elections.

Bruce has appeared before the Human Rights Review Tribunal.

Rodney is a mediator, arbitrator and former High Court judge. He retired from his role as judge in 2014 and has since established a practice in the specialist areas of mediation and arbitration. His extensive background experience - and the insights and wisdom gained - as a former barrister and judge also make him particularly suited to provide expert determinations, evaluations and, for individual parties, opinions and strategic litigation advice. He undertakes these roles for the resolution of a wide range of disputes including commercial and contractual, relationship property, trusts, and commercial and residential property.

Prior to being appointed as a High Court Judge, Rodney operated an extensive civil litigation and family law practice. For most of his 14 years as judge he served as a divisional member of the Court of Appeal and as a Commercial List Judge. This included some years as the supervising judge of the Commercial List. As a judge he exercised criminal and civil jurisdiction at first instance and on appeal.

• 1978-1991: Barrister Sole
• 1978-2006: Editor, The Capital Letter
• 1986-1991: Law Commissioner
• 1991-2015: Chapman Tripp litigation partner
• May 2015: Returned as barrister sole

Bob provides expert legal representation in dispute litigation. He has specific interests in contract, torts (particularly misrepresentation and negligence), restitution, company and commercial disputes, and insolvency. As well as representing clients in court and in arbitrations, Bob provides strategic advice and proactive management of resolving disputes and anticipated disputes. He is conscious of client goals and constructs a strategy to achieve these.

Jenny is an experienced litigator specialising in company and securities law, fair trading and consumer finance law, competition law, and insolvency. She has acted for both corporate clients and individuals involved in investigations and proceedings by the Commerce Commission and Financial Markets Authority, as well as advising and acting in a wide range of commercial disputes and insolvency related matters.

Honor acts in criminal, professional discipline and civil cases, with a particular focus on defending complex regulatory and serious fraud prosecutions. 

Since joining the bar in 2015, she has represented clients in a number of high profile criminal cases, including the longest criminal trial in New Zealand’s history (the Financial Markets Authority’s (FMA) prosecution of the directors of Viaduct Capital and Mutual Finance), the Serious Fraud Office’s (SFO) prosecution of Auckland Transport officials for corruption, the SFO’s prosecution of a $40 million mortgage fraud and the first two prosecutions under the Wine Act 2003. She currently acts for individual and corporate clients being investigated or prosecuted by various regulators.  

Honor also has experience in criminal proceeds litigation and defending clients subject to professional discipline proceedings.

In addition, Honor acts in civil cases concerning shareholder disputes, company law, contract claims and breach of fiduciary duties. 

Prior to joining the bar, Honor worked in prosecution in Wellington as a Crown Prosecutor and in New York as a Consultant to the New York County (Manhattan) District Attorney’s Office. She also worked as a defence lawyer at the International Criminal Court on the ‘Kenya 1’ case. 

Honor has a keen interest in international and human rights law. She has completed pro-bono work for the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, International Committee of the Red Cross and Vice-Chair of the United Nations Committee Against Torture. She is presently a member of the New Zealand Law Society’s Human Rights and Privacy Committee. 

Honor has a first class honours degree in Law from the University of Otago and a Masters in Law from Columbia University. At Otago, she was awarded academic prizes, was President of the Society of Otago University Law Students, won the national negotiation competition and came fourth in the world negotiation competition. At Columbia University, she was the W. Bayard Cutting Jr Fellow for International Law, a James Kent Scholar (A – A+ average) and was the recipient of a William Georgetti Scholarship from New Zealand.

James undertakes a broad range of commercial work in both litigation and arbitration.  His practice has an emphasis on contract, insurance, equity and trusts, regulatory and international law matters.

James graduated from the University of Auckland with degrees in Law and Arts (history and politics).  He won numerous academic prizes, as well as the premier national and university mooting competitions.  James also has a first class LLM degree from the University of Cambridge, which he attended as a WM Tapp scholar.

James began his career at Bell Gully.  His experience includes two years at the Court of Appeal, where he clerked for Justice Chambers, and four years at an international law firm in London, where his practice focused on international litigation and arbitration. 

If you want to know a bit more about me, please read on, but I think the best way to know me, and to understand whether I can help you or your client, is to have a conversation.

What I do and how I go about doing it has to be all about you: what motivates you, what you want to achieve.  My role is really to understand that, and to try to help you to get there.   But not in just any old way, in the best way for you.  That might mean you need to go to court, or it might not.  Ending up in court is not always the best way to go.  Ending up in court can be sub-optimal.  But sometimes you have to do what you have to do.  If push comes to shove and you need someone to argue in court, that is part of what I do.  The bottom line is that the challenges you have right now are special to you.  And so too are the solutions to those challenges.  Together we will have a good hard look at the challenges you face, and together we will find solutions to them.

But enough about you, more about me…

David is an experienced trial and appellate advocate who appears in the courts at all levels, in arbitrations and before specialist tribunals.  David has a general civil litigation practice with a particular focus on complex contractual disputes, company and securities law, takeovers, competition law, regulatory investigations and class actions.

David graduated LLB (Hons) from the University of Auckland in 1991.  After a brief period at Bell Gully, he completed a PhD in law at the University of Cambridge and spent a year lecturing at the University of Chicago Law School.  He then returned to Bell Gully where he was a litigation partner for 14 years before commencing practice as a barrister sole at Shortland Chambers in 2017.

For several years David has been ranked by Chambers & Partners as a “Band 1” litigation lawyer and in 2016 was named Disputes Star of the Year for New Zealand at the Asialaw Asia-Pacific Dispute Resolution Awards.

Nura practices commercial and civil litigation. She receives instructions in a wide range of areas, with a focus on contract, negligence, intellectual property, employment, human rights, privacy, media, trust, and relationship property matters.

Nura conducts litigation that is efficient and client-focused. She also provides advisory services, and will work with clients to resolve disputes outside of court where possible.

Nura has appeared before most of New Zealand’s courts and specialist tribunals. Her experience includes trial and appellate work.

Robert is an experienced litigator who specialises in civil litigation, with a particular emphasis on defamation and media law including copyright, privacy, and contempt. Robert advises a number of New Zealand’s major online, print and broadcast media, and has led and appeared in a number of significant media law cases. He also regularly provides advice to New Zealand film production companies.

In addition to his media law expertise, Robert is experienced in the areas of insolvency and liquidation, judicial review, and trust and estate litigation. 

Prior to moving to the independent bar at Shortland Chambers, Robert was a litigation partner for 20 years at the highly respected Wellington firm Izard Weston. 

Robert is a faculty member of the New Zealand Law Society’s Litigation Skills Programme and has contributed to legal education as a presenter to the CLE Media Law seminars. 

Bronwyn has specialised in environmental, resource management and local government law since 2000.  She started her career at Simpson Grierson, before joining Russell McVeagh in 2011 and becoming a partner in that firm's Environmental, Planning and Natural Resources team later that year.   Bronwyn joined Shortland Chambers in December 2018.

Michael joined Shortland Chambers in March 2019.  He advises and represents clients involved in civil, commercial and regulatory disputes.  He has experience in most areas of law, with particular expertise in banking and financial services, insolvency, property, trusts, and company law.  Michael appears regularly as counsel in Court, and also enjoys helping clients resolve disputes in other ways.  He has assisted clients with regulatory and internal investigations and reviews.

Prior to joining Shortland Chambers Michael was a partner at Simpson Grierson for 12 years and a member of the firm’s board for 6 years.

Michael has a strong advisory practice alongside his litigation practice.  He is recognised as a leading restructuring and insolvency lawyer in the IFLR1000, Chambers and Asia-Pacific Legal 500 directories.