2004 – Present
Self-employed arbitrator, mediator and adjudicator; appellate judge in Kiribati, Tuvalu, Samoa and Cook Is; wrote series of reports to Government on petitions for pardon and compensation for wrongful imprisonment, domain name expert.
2004 – Present
Self-employed arbitrator, mediator and adjudicator; appellate judge in Kiribati, Tuvalu, Samoa and Cook Is; wrote series of reports to Government on petitions for pardon and compensation for wrongful imprisonment, domain name expert.
1989 – 2004
Judge of High Court of NZ; Chair of NZ Rules Committee, Supervising Judge of Commercial List, Executive and Senior Judge of Auckland High Court, divisional member of the NZ Court of Appeal
1962 – 1989
Solicitor, partner, barrister and Queen's Counsel in Wellington, Hamilton and Auckland
Significant arbitrations and mediations
Details unavailable due to confidentiality of arbitrations and mediations
Evidence Act 2006
Special adviser to Parliament on 2005 Evidence Bill
Bain Report 2012
Report to Minister of Justice on compensation claim by David Bain
Punitia v Tutuila [2014] WSCA 1
Presided on Samoan Court of Appeal’s judgment holding that Constitution overrides village’s right to banish its citizens.
Webb v Webb [2017] CKCA 4
Presided on Cook Islands Court of Appeal judgment re objective nullity in family trusts
Haig Report 2008
Report to Minister of Justice on compensation claim by Rex Haig following his book Rough Justice
Teonea v Pule o Kaupule [2009] TVCA 2
A majority judgment in Tuvalu Court of Appeal upholding Brethren’s constitutional right to religious freedom
Arbitrators (Chapter 24, Professional Responsibility in New Zealand (2015) LexisNexis) (co-author).
Fisher on Matrimonial Property (2nd ed, Butterworths, Wellington, 1984) (now looseleaf ed, LexisNexis) (Editor-in-Chief).
Laws of New Zealand Consulting editor.
Evidence – How it Works (New Zealand Law Society, 2004) (co-author).
NZ Halsbury Commentary on Patents Butterworths (1988).