Profile
Recognised as one of New Zealand’s leading media and defamation lawyers, I have a proven record of excellence and success with over 30 years litigation and advocacy experience. I deliver solution-based outcomes for my clients that recognise both legal and commercial imperatives. I advise a number of New Zealand’s major digital, broadcast and print media entities – both public and commercial – and have led and appeared in a number of significant media law and defamation cases.
I also have extensive experience in the areas of dispute resolution, coronial and other inquiries, human rights (freedom of expression), copyright, privacy, contempt, suppression, insolvency and liquidation, judicial review, professional disciplinary tribunals, and trust and estate litigation. I also regularly provide advice to New Zealand and international film production and publishing companies.
Prior to moving to the independent bar at Shortland Chambers, I was a litigation partner for 20 years at the highly respected Wellington firm Izard Weston. My international legal experience in the areas of commercial transactions and insolvency involved working in the London offices of global law firms Reed Smith LLP (as Warner Cranston) and DLA Piper (as Dibb Lupton Broomhead).
I am a member of the New Zealand Bar Association, the New Zealand Law Society and a faculty member of the NZLS’s Litigation Skills Programme. I have also contributed to legal education as a presenter to a number of NZLS CLE Media Law seminars, and for the Auckland District Law Society on contempt and recusal.
Profile
Recognised as one of New Zealand’s leading media and defamation lawyers, I have a proven record of excellence and success with over 30 years litigation and advocacy experience. I deliver solution-based outcomes for my clients that recognise both legal and commercial imperatives. I advise a number of New Zealand’s major digital, broadcast and print media entities – both public and commercial – and have led and appeared in a number of significant media law and defamation cases.
I also have extensive experience in the areas of dispute resolution, coronial and other inquiries, human rights (freedom of expression), copyright, privacy, contempt, suppression, insolvency and liquidation, judicial review, professional disciplinary tribunals, and trust and estate litigation. I also regularly provide advice to New Zealand and international film production and publishing companies.
Prior to moving to the independent bar at Shortland Chambers, I was a litigation partner for 20 years at the highly respected Wellington firm Izard Weston. My international legal experience in the areas of commercial transactions and insolvency involved working in the London offices of global law firms Reed Smith LLP (as Warner Cranston) and DLA Piper (as Dibb Lupton Broomhead).
I am a member of the New Zealand Bar Association, the New Zealand Law Society and a faculty member of the NZLS’s Litigation Skills Programme. I have also contributed to legal education as a presenter to a number of NZLS CLE Media Law seminars, and for the Auckland District Law Society on contempt and recusal.
Profile
Recognised as one of New Zealand’s leading media and defamation lawyers, I have a proven record of excellence and success with over 30 years litigation and advocacy experience. I deliver solution-based outcomes for my clients that recognise both legal and commercial imperatives. I advise a number of New Zealand’s major digital, broadcast and print media entities – both public and commercial – and have led and appeared in a number of significant media law and defamation cases.
I also have extensive experience in the areas of dispute resolution, coronial and other inquiries, human rights (freedom of expression), copyright, privacy, contempt, suppression, insolvency and liquidation, judicial review, professional disciplinary tribunals, and trust and estate litigation. I also regularly provide advice to New Zealand and international film production and publishing companies.
Prior to moving to the independent bar at Shortland Chambers, I was a litigation partner for 20 years at the highly respected Wellington firm Izard Weston. My international legal experience in the areas of commercial transactions and insolvency involved working in the London offices of global law firms Reed Smith LLP (as Warner Cranston) and DLA Piper (as Dibb Lupton Broomhead).
I am a member of the New Zealand Bar Association, the New Zealand Law Society and a faculty member of the NZLS’s Litigation Skills Programme. I have also contributed to legal education as a presenter to a number of NZLS CLE Media Law seminars, and for the Auckland District Law Society on contempt and recusal.
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Additional information
Admitted to the Bar: 1991
Partner – Izard Weston: 1998 - 2018
Barrister Sole: 2018
BCom/LLB (Cant)
Year Admitted: 1991
Barrister Sole: 2018
