Below is a short selection of recent and notable cases.  For more detailed information about my experience in a specific area please contact me.
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• Counsel for Foodstuffs in an appeal from the Commerce Commissioner’s decision to decline clearance to merge Foodstuffs North Island and Foodstuffs South Island (decision pending).
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• Counsel for ASB Bank Limited in a class action alleging breaches of the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 2003 (settled) (Simons & Ors v ANZ Bank & Anor [2022] NZHC 1836).
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• Counsel for the Financial Markets Authority in an application for asset preservation (freezing) orders and appointment of receivers and managers over a property development group and its ultimate owners (Financial Markets Authority v Du Val Capital Partners Ltd [2024] NZHC 4011).  
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• Counsel for an iwi applicant in an appeal to the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court under the Marine and Coastal Area Act 2011.  This was the first appeal to both the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court under the Act and raised novel issues regarding recognition of customary rights in the marine and coastal area (Whakatōhea Kotahitanga Waka (Edwards) & Ors v Te Kāhui & Ors [2024] NZSC 164).
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• Counsel for the plaintiff in a contractual dispute arising from an investment in a blockchain technology company (MB Technology Ltd v Orbis Blockchain Technologies Ltd [2025] NZHC 1012).
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• Counsel for the plaintiff in a successful claim for breach of fiduciary duty against the NZX-listed majority shareholder of an orphan drug joint venture (PBL Solutions Ltd v AFT Pharmaceuticals Ltd [2023] NZHC 2351).
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• Court-appointed counsel for the unsecured creditors in two applications for directions by the liquidators of a cryptocurrency exchange raising novel issues of property, trust, and insolvency law in relation to cryptocurrencies Ruscoe v Cryptopia Limited (in liquidation) [2020] NZHC 728, Ruscoe v Houchens [2024] NZHC 419).

• Author of Laws of New Zealand Securities Law, Reissue 2
• Panel member at New Zealand Climate Litigation Conference 2026: Private Law Climate Litigation
• Panel member at INSOL International Australia and New Zealand Seminar 2025: Restructuring for Resilience: The Intersection of Climate, ESG and Insolvency
• Presentation to NZ Insurance Law Association and Insurance Council of New Zealand: Climate Change Litigation, 8 June 2023
• Panel member at Climate Change and Business Conference 2020: Litigation risk- demystifying your climate law obligations
• Sole author of Recent Developments in Directors’ Liability, Chapter in S Watson (ed.): The Changing Landscape of Commercial Law, 2017
• Sole author of Laws of New Zealand: Securities Law (Reissue 2), 2016
• FW Guest Memorial lecture: Making the penalty fit the crime: the pros and cons of civil pecuniary penalties as a means of enforcing commercial law 4 May 2016, published in Otago Law Review 2016

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• President, Lawyers for Climate Action NZ Inc.
• Past Council Member, New Zealand Bar Association.
• Member of AMINZ.

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BA, LLB (Hons), MPhil (Oxon)

BCL First-class honours (Oxon)

Year Admitted: 1995

Barrister Sole: 2011

Silk: 2017
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