Experience
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28 years as counsel |
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20 years as arbitrator |
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10 years as judicial officer |
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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 |
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Author and lecturer |
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Overseas Member, Society of Construction Arbitrators (UK) (2004) |
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Elected as inaugural President of the Society of Construction Law New Zealand (2005) |
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Queen’s Counsel (2005) |
Educational involvement
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Lecturer on Professional Liability, Continuing Education for Engineers, School of Engineering and Centre for Continuing Education, University of Auckland (1983-1990) and on "Legal aspects of specification writing for electrical engineering contracts"(1986) for same body |
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Presented New Zealand Law Society Seminar on Construction Law (1989) |
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Conducted Construction Law Seminar for M.ComLaw students, School of Business & Economics, University of Auckland (2001 - 2003) |
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Co-presenter AMINZ Seminar on Construction Contracts Act 2002 (2003) |
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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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Aspects of New Zealand Construction Law [1996] ICLR 350-390 |
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Construction Law in New Zealand published by Butterworths of New Zealand Limited (1999, reprinted by LexisNexis NZ Ltd 2003) |
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Of Cabbages and Kings: The UNCITRAL Model Law and Other Things [2003] ICLR 219-239 |
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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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Expert Evidence in Construction and Engineering Cases a paper presented at a Legal Research Foundation Inc Conference on The Role and Use of Expert Witnesses (2002) (published in [2003] ICLR 401 - 412) |
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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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A Review of the Cases on the Construction Contracts Act 2002 (2008) (see Recent Papers page) |
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