Areas of expertise

Brian specialises in providing advocacy at all levels of the Court system and before specialist tribunals and commissions and in providing advice generally in the areas of: 

• commercial and corporate law
• administrative law and judicial review
• contract law
• tort law
• banking and finance law
• insolvency and complex company liquidations
• defamation
• insurance
• trade and competition law
• resource management (High Court level)
• local government law

Brian has also appeared as counsel before many specialist tribunals, authorities, and commissions on a wide range of major civil and commercial matters. Including the Securities Commission, the Surveillance Panel of the NZSE, the Market Surveillance Committee of the NZEM (Sir Duncan McMullin Chairperson), the Appeal Board of NZEM (Sir David Tompkins, Chair), the Broadcasting Tribunal, the "Winebox" Commission of Inquiry, the Pike River Commission of Inquiry, and Parliamentary Select Committees.