Construction & Infrastructure

• Several ongoing High Court proceedings on behalf of construction professionals alleging defective earthquake assessments and repairs.
• Successfully representing the interests of structural engineers and their insurers in a significant Building Act 2004 determination process involving multiple commercial buildings, and associated Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand disciplinary proceedings. Civil proceedings in connection with the same matter resolved accordingly.
• Successfully defending private insurers’ interests in He v The Earthquake Commission [2019] NZCA 373.
• Representing the interests of a number of insurers of commercial buildings to settle claims for damages affected by the Canterbury and Kaikoura earthquakes.
• Defending a number of construction/property professionals, including engineers, architects, valuers, surveyors, project managers and real estate agents, in various civil proceedings involving weather tightness and other building/construction defects.
• Acting for multiple insurers and insureds in the recovery of large-scale standing timber losses arising from forest fires.

Statutory Liability

• Securing permanent name suppression and discharge without conviction for owner of six dogs who died on ferry crossing.
• Handling various investigations and prosecutions on behalf of private businesses and their insurers relating to alleged breaches of the Health and Safety and Environmental legislation.
• Defending operators in the agricultural and forestry sectors for insurers, in health and safety investigations and prosecutions, including a number of matters concerning fatalities.

Environment + Agricultural Impairment

• Reaching negotiated resolution of civil claims following animal tallow spill at port facility.
• Defending civil and environmental proceedings against construction contractor alleging illegal discharge of contaminated fill at cleanfill facility.
• Achieving positive outcomes for agricultural and industrial operators and their clients in regulatory investigations and proceedings (including criminal and civil claims) involving actual and alleged environmental discharges.

Healthcare + Life Sciences

• Defending multiple health agencies in proceedings before the Human Rights Review Tribunal.
• Representing a number of healthcare professionals in disciplinary investigations and proceedings, Privacy Act 1993 complaints, and Human Rights Review Tribunal matters.
• Successfully achieving the withdrawal of charges before the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal arising from substantial procedural defects in the Professional Conduct Committee’s processes.