He has a wide range of litigation experience having worked as a Crown Prosecutor (for the Crown Solicitor at Christchurch), a government legal adviser (to the Treasury Solicitor’s Department, London) and as a general commercial and insurance litigator for national New Zealand and City of London law firms.

David’s current litigation practice is wide-ranging and includes liquor licensing, criminal, employment, trust and estates, commercial and insurance litigation instructions.

David’s recent experience includes:

• Testamentary Promises and Family Protection claims.
• Property Law Act claims.
• Specific performance claims (residential and farm).
• Construction Contracts Act disputes and arbitration.
• Export fruit industry disputes and arbitration.
• Advising insurers on professional indemnity and public liability claims.
• Conducting leaky home claims on behalf of owners or defendants in the Weathertight Homes Tribunal, District and High Courts.
• Advising employers on employee agreements, investigation and disciplinary meetings and processes, mediations and personal grievances.
• Advising New Zealand and UK regulators in areas such as postal services, transport and corporate regulatory matters.
• Conducting defended Judge alone and jury trials in the District and High Courts.
• Appearing as counsel at sports disciplinary hearings and providing ad hoc advice to racing industry participants and/or regulators.
• Advising dairy industry participants on sharemilking agreements and claims arising from termination.
• Advising farmers on crop and stock loss claims and lease disputes.
• Advising Professional Trustees in complex family trust litigation; and
• Advising hospitality industry members on all aspects of liquor licensing law including defended applications for suspension or cancellation and appeals.

David is an Adjudicator of the Motor Vehicle Disputes Tribunal and a member of a local Standards Committee.