If you are facing a dispute, whether commercial or private, our skilled litigation and disputes resolution team aim to work with you to achieve the most favourable outcome. At the outset we advise on the most appropriate options to resolve the dispute, with a mind to achieving a cost effective solution.
Our team is experienced in the use of alternative dispute resolution including negotiation, mediation, and arbitration. However, when litigation is the only option, we are experienced over a broad range of matters in the various Tribunals, the District Court, Employment Court, Environment Court, Family Court, High Court, and Court of Appeal.
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We regularly act on disputes involving:
- Mediations and arbitrations
- Contractual disputes
- Commercial disputes
- Debt recovery and insolvency
- Relationship property and family law
- Insurance
- Judicial review
- Claims in tort, including negligence
- Trust and estate litigation
- Employment
- Professional body disciplinary action
- Criminal law
- Intellectual property
EXAMPLES OF OUR RECENT WORK
- Christchurch District Court (decision 22 November 2016): Successful claim against a defendant denying liability under a contractual arrangement for the division of profits between business partners.
- Successfully defending an application for summary judgment brought against a guarantor under a loan agreement in UDC Finance Limited v Rout [2015] NZHC 212.
- Representing several clients in Adjudication under the Construction Contracts Act 2002.
- Successfully arguing for unequal division of relationship property Mauger v Mauger [2015] NZFC 570.
- Successfully liquidating high profile Christchurch construction company Williams & Co Ltd.
- Representing an engineer through the IPENZ complaints process arising from the Canterbury Earthquakes.
- Obtaining an urgent freezing order over bank accounts in a relationship property dispute in Johnson v Watling, CIV-2012-409-1425, Christchurch High Court, 13 July 2012.
- Successfully making application for summary judgment to recall letters of administration in Lee v Archer [2012] NZHC 3308.