Experience
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28 years as counsel in construction and commercial arbitrations |
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20 years as arbitrator, both in New Zealand and Internationally |
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10 years as judicial officer |
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Appointments as sole arbitrator, party appointed arbitrator and chairman/presiding arbitrator |
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Experience of ICC, UNCITRAL and SIAC Rules |
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Chartered Arbitrator of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (1999) |
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Past President (1992-1994) and Honorary Life Member (1998) of the Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand |
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Member, Expert Panel advising Minister of Internal Affairs on design and establishment of dispute resolution service in New Zealand under the Weathertight Homes Resolution Services Act 2002 (2002) |
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Author and lecturer |
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Overseas Member, Society of Construction Arbitrators (UK) (2004) |
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Queen’s Counsel (2005) |
Fellowships
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Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London (1984) |
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Arbitrators' and Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand (1987) |
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Indian Council of Arbitration (2000) |
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Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (2004) |
Panel Memberships
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American Arbitration Association (1985) |
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Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (1987) |
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Arbitrators' and Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand (formerly the Arbitrators’ Institute of New Zealand) (1987) |
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Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (1990) |
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Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London (1990) |
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London Court of International Arbitration (1992) |
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Singapore International Arbitration Centre (1992) |
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Australian National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce (1995) |
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Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (1997) |
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Qingdao Arbitration Commission (1997) |
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Indian Council of Arbitration (2000) |
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International Arbitration Committee of ICC New Zealand (2001- foundation member) |
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CIETAC Panel of Arbitrators for Disputes arising out of Wool Standard Contracts (2005) |
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Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration Ltd (2005) |
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Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (2006) |
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Asia Pacific Regional Arbitration Group (2007) |
Educational Involvement
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Approved Tutor of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (1995) |
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Lecturer, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration (January and September 1996) |
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Lecturer in Transnational Litigation and Arbitration, School of Commerce & Economics (Department of Commercial Law), University of Auckland (1990-1992) |
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Member (with only short breaks due to other commitments), Education and Qualifications Committee of Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand or its predecessor Committees (1991-2003) and Convenor of the Committee for much of that period |
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Member, Massey University - Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand Joint Advisory Committee for the Dispute Resolution Centre, Massey University (1993-2003) |
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Co-presenter AMINZ Seminar on Construction Contracts Act 2002 (2003) |
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Faculty Member, Arbitration Law Workshop for Pacific Nations, Auckland, (2003) (sponsored by the New Zealand Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade) |
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Co-presenter AMINZ Seminar on Arbitrators’ Duties (2005) |
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Lectured, King’s College London – National University of Singapore M.Sc Course in Construction Law and Arbitration (February and September 2005 and October 2006) |
Publications and Recent Papers
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National Report on NZ Arbitration Law in ICCA Yearbook Commercial Arbitration (1983) (now also included in ICCA International Handbook on Commercial Arbitration) |
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New Zealand Chapter in IBA publication "Interim Court Remedies in Support of Arbitration" (1987) |
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"Dispute Resolution in New Zealand" (1992) 58 JCIArb 2(S), 38-41 |
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"Advocacy in Arbitration" (1993) 59 JCIArb 3, 148-151 |
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"A South Pacific Perspective on International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution since 1961" (1995) 1 NZBLQ 195-243 |
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"Alternative Dispute Resolution in New Zealand" in "Alternative Dispute Resolution - what it is and how it works" (1997) |
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"Transnational Litigation and Arbitration" [1998] NZLJ 7 |
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National Report on NZ Arbitration Law in ICCA International Handbook on Commercial Arbitration (1998) |
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Of Cabbages and Kings: The UNCITRAL Model Arbitration Law and Other Things [2003] ICLR 219-239 |
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What the Arbitrator Should Not Do! [2003] NZLJ 106 - 108 and 185 - 188 |
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A guide to the Construction Contracts Act (co-authored with G Bayley) (Rawlinson’s Media Ltd, 2003) |
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The Role of the Courts in relation to Arbitration Awards a paper presented at the Arbitration Law Workshop for Pacific Nations in Auckland (2003)(published as Massey University Dispute Resolution Centre Occasional Paper Series 03/2) |
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ADR – Antipodean Dispute Resolution (2004), published by the Society of Construction Law (see Recent Papers page) |
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A Review of the Existing Legislative Models for a Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act (2005) (see Recent Papers page) |
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The Role of Courts in Arbitration Proceedings (2005) (see Recent Papers page) |
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"Pacta Sunt Servanda" – or are they? An introduction to the Enforcement of Arbitration Agreements (2007) (see Recent Papers page) |
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International Arbitrations- chapter in Green & Hunt on Arbitration Law and Practice (2007) (see Books and Book Reviews page) |
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Adjudication – The New Zealand Position (2007) (see Recent Papers page) |
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Promised Land or Fire Swamp? Interim Measures – the New Zealand Revolution (2007) (see Recent Papers page) ( a shortened version of this paper has been published at [2008] NZLJ 83-88 and 92) |
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The New Zealand Experience of the UNCITRAL Model Law: A Review of the Position as at 31 December 2007 (2008) ( a further version of this paper has been published at (2008) 4 AIAJ 1-63) (see Recent Papers page) |
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The Role of Arbitration in Developing and Developed Economies and the Importance of Arbitration Systems in Attracting Foreign Direct Investment (2008) (see Recent Papers page) |
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The Effect of Gradual Liberalisation of the Definition of “An Agreement in Writing” (2008) (see Recent Papers page) |
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