Jai Moss

  • 022 177 1027
  • LLB (Honours) – University of Canterbury – 1997
Jai is an experienced advocate with 25 years experience practising in civil and commercial litigation.
Jai graduated with Honours from Canterbury University in 1997. He is qualified in New Zealand and Australia (NSW) and has worked in international law firms in London and Sydney and national firms in New Zealand before joining the independent bar in 2011.

Jai has a broad practice across all areas of civil and commercial litigation specialising in contract and commercial disputes, Companies Act and insolvency matters, estate and trust matters, insurance, professional negligence, property disputes and tort. He is regularly instructed by clients on disputes across the country.

Jai has appeared as junior counsel in two Supreme Court cases and regularly appears as lead counsel in the Court of Appeal, High Court, and arbitrations. He has also been appointed amicus curiae by the High Court.

Expertise

  • Arbitration
  • Banking Law
  • Building and Construction
  • Company
  • Competition and Fair Trading
  • Contract, Civil and Commercial Disputes
  • Defamation and Media
  • Insolvency and Liquidation
  • Insurance
  • Judicial Review and Public Law
  • Mediation
  • Tort
  • Trusts
  • Wills and Estates

Case Highlights

  • Henderson v Attorney General NZCA 239/2022 (decision pending on a NZ Bill of Rights issue relating to rights to trial)
  • 100 Investments Limited & Ors v Walker, LPF Group Limited & SPF No 10 Limited [2024] NZHC 93, [2023] NZHC 3732, [2023] NZHC 3740, [2023] NZHC 2227 (successfully acted for a liquidator in respect of various applications by LPF & SPF leading up to trial)
  • Young v Crown – Supreme Court hearing on 14 March 2023 (decision pending.) [2022] NZSC 148 (nuisance); [2022] NZCA 391; [2020] NZHC 463
  • Sharma v Foster-Bohm & [2023] NZCA 509; Corbin [2023] NZHC 552; [2022] NZHC 2871 (successful dismissal of appeal from District Court and opposition to application to apply for leave to the Court of Appeal.)
  • Official Assignee v 22 O’Shannessey Limited [2022] NZHC 2930 (unsuccessful application to rescind interim injunction.)
  • Whitley as liquidator of PVL (in Liq) v Meredith Connell [2022] NZHC 2994 (successful application under Companies Act for documents from the solicitors of the previous liquidator.)
  • 100 Investments Ltd v Walker [2022] NZHC 1379 (successful opposition to consolidate two proceedings.)
  • Buxton v Xero Limited [2022] NZCA 100 (unsuccessful appeal on breach of privacy.)
  • Clark v Clark [2022] NZHC 786 (successful opposition to summary judgment application.)
  • Hyndman v Walker – [2021] NZSC 58; [2021] NZCA 25 (unsuccessful appeal on breach of privacy and application for leave to the Supreme Court.)
  • Stokes v Prain [2021] NZCA 683 (successful dismissal of appeal.)
  • Teece v Veint – [2021] NZHC 2048 (successful opposition of strike out application.) [2021] NZHC 409 (successful caveat application) [2020] NZHC 3501 (successful opposition to urgent application to rescind interim orders.)
  • Willigers v Churchill Fishing International Limited [2020] NZHC 2212 (successful opposition for urgent stay of possession.) [2020] NZDC 15372 (successful dismissal of appeal.)
  • Kkeshav International Limited v Heaton Holdings Limited [2020] NZHC 1513 (successful opposition to attempt to set aside statutory demand.)
  • David Ian Henderson v Robert Bruce Walker [2019] NZHC 3020 (successful breach of privacy and confidence claim.)
  • GP 96 Limited v FM Custodians Limited and PVG Securities Limited [2019] NZHC 1183 (injunction and removal of caveat proceedings.)
  • Xu v IAG [2019] NZSC 68; [2018] NZCA 149; [2017] NZHC 1964 (dispute relating to the rights of the owner of an assignment of an insurance policy, unsuccessful (3-2).)
  • Gavin v Powell and Dorrance [2019] NZHC 1277 (successful application for dismissal of solicitors for conflict.)
  • Young v Attorney General [2019] NZHC 993 (successful opposition to strike out application by the Crown on a nuisance case arising out of the Canterbury earthquakes.)
  • Chapman-Cohen v Wisnewski [2019] NZFC 7231 (successful Family Protection claim.)
  • CIR v Livingspace Properties Limited (in liquidation and receivership) [2019] NZHC 711 (successful applications relating to Companies Act disputes.)
  • Greenfields Internet Limited v Rural Networks South Island Limited [2019] NZHC 465; [2019] NZHC 504; [2019] NZHC 645 (a mixture of success in injunction proceedings.)
  • Tomanovich Holdings Limited v Gibbston Community Water Company 2014 Limited [2019] NZCA 7 (successful dismissal of appeal.)

Memberships

New Zealand Bar Association
New Zealand Law Society
The Law Association (ADLS)
The Law Association Property Disputes Committee

Anne Toohey KC

Ben Walker

Cecil Hanafin

David Jackson

Gary Davis

Helen Smith

Jai Moss

Janna McGuigan

John Matthews

Nicholas Till KC

Peter Whiteside KC

Rebecca Scott

Richard Raymond KC

Rion Norris

Stephanie Marsden

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