Qualifications

• B.Com (Accounting) – University of Auckland 1990

• LL.B (Hons) - University of Auckland - 1990

• LL.M (First Class Hons) – University of Auckland – 2006

• Mediating the Litigated Case – Pepperdine University, California – January 2026

• Mediation Skills Intensive – Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand – March 2026

Positions Held

• Commissioner, Criminal Cases Review Commission I Te Kāhui Tātari Ture (2024 to present)

• Chairperson, Auckland Community Law Centre (2022 to present)

• Trustee, Auckland Community Law Centre (2021 - 2022)

• Past Council Member, New Zealand Law Society (Auckland Branch Council Member 2016-2020)

• Past Council Member, New Zealand Bar Association

Publications

• Supreme Court Upholds Intention that Easements and Covenants can be Modified and Extinguished (2021) 21 Property Lawyer 18.

• Statutory Demands and Agreements to Arbitrate [2020] CSLB 77

• Beware Unhappy Beneficiaries, Step Conference 2019

• Making Sense of Commercial Common Sense (2018) 49 VUWLR 279

• Book Review: Feminist Judgments of Aotearoa New Zealand – Te Rino: A Two-Stranded Rope (2018) 49 VUWLR 413

• Mediation Advocacy, New Zealand Bar Association Conference, September 2017

• Claims for compensation under s15, Lexis Nexis Family Law Conference 2013

• Calculating the Quantum of Economic Disparity, 2010 NZLJ 366

• Litigation Strategy, New Zealand Law Society Seminar, October/November 2006