Papers given

Papers Delivered 1990 – 2013 include:

• Contractual Mistakes – 1990, International Conference of Architects;
• The Relationship of the RMA to the Treaty of Waitangi – 1991 – to the National Resource Management Act Conference, New Plymouth;
• Valuation and Maori Land Issues – 1992 – National Conference of Valuers;
• A paper on Arbitral Preliminary Meetings in 1992;
• Commerce Act & Fair Trading Act Compliance – 1993 – in-house to Telecom Directors and legal team;
• Arbitration and Interlocutory Process – 1993 – to the Arbitrators’ Institute of New Zealand;
• Counsel’s Perception of the Tribunal and its Procedures – 1993 – to the Judges’ Conference of the Waitangi Tribunal and Maori Land Court;
• Commerce Act and Fair Trading Act Compliance – 1993 – In-house to Telecom Directors and legal team;
• Teacher Conduct and the Law - 1993 and 1994 – at Wellington College of Education;
• Drafted the Cardinal Rules for teaching in the Wellington College of Education, prescribing teacher conduct in relation to sexual issues – lectured at the College – 1993 and 1994;
• Commerce Compliance Programmes – A Legal Obligation – May 1994 – Corporate Lawyers Conference;
• Misconduct by the Arbitrator – June 1994 – to the Arbitrators’ Institute of New Zealand Advanced Arbitration Seminar Programme;
• Conciliation-Mediation-Arbitration – 1994 – to the Arbitrators’ Institute of New Zealand Conference (only New Zealand speaker)
• Process and Pitfalls: A Question of Liability – April 1995 – to the AMINZ Advanced Arbitration Seminar Programme;
• A South Pacific Perspective on International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution – August 1995 – a commentary at the New Zealand Business Law Conference (1995) 1 NZBLQ 244;
• A paper on Arbitration and interlocutory processes in 1993;
• A commentary to the Journal of Contract Law Conference on developments in the law of contract pertaining to arbitration – August 1995;
• Arbitration Act 1996 – 1997 – Arbitrators’ & Mediators’ Institute Annual Conference – Panel member with the Rt Hon Justice McKay and D Firth;
• Ethics – 1997 – Arbitrators’ & Mediators’ Institute Annual Conference – and Panel member;
• Mediation as Part of the High Court Process: Public Law and Mediation – April 1997 – to the 1997 Administrative Law Conference
• Arbitration Act 1996: National Seminar Programme - April 1997 – together with the Rt Hon Justice McKay and Jack Hodder;
• Alternatives to Litigation in the Public Arena: What are they? – April 1997 at the 1997 – AIC Administrative Law Summit;
• Judicial Intervention and the Arbitration Act 1996 – December 1998 – for the Victoria University Dispute Resolution Centre – (Lecture only);
• Local Authority Responsibility to Tangata Whenua under the Resource Management Act – August 1997 to Taupo District Council;
• Arbitration Act 1996 – A Review – July 1998 – to the Arbitrators’ & Mediators’ Institute Conference – Panel Chair with Willy DCJ and Master Kennedy-Grant;
• State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986 s 27B: Protection for Whom? at the 1999 AIC Administrative Law Conference;
• The Role of Private Mediation and Arbitration in Employment Contracts – May 1999 – to the Arbitrators’ & Mediators’ Institute of NZ Inc Conference;
• Vive la Difference – Dispute Resolution under the Employment Relations Bill – June 2000 – Public Law Conference;
• The Operation of an Investigatory Body Within the New Zealand Legal System – June and September 2000 – to the Public Law Conferences;
• Mediation – invited speaker to the 2001 Conference of Environment Court Judges and Commissioners;
• Straddling the Cultural Divide – September 2003 – to the block course on Valuation of Land Subject to Maori Rights – Massey University Albany Campus, Auckland
• A Question of Ethics – July 2002 to the Arbitrators’ & Mediators’ Institute of NZ Inc Conference;
• The Management of Ethics in the Context of ADR – 2003 to the South Pacific Forum on ADR.
• Land Valuation Issues and Treaty Claims – 2004 to the Massey University Albany Campus Valuers Programme
• Commentary on the paper by Hon Robert Fisher QC “How Arbitrators Get Paid” – August 2007 AMINZ Annual Conference
• Do Justice – 2007 – The management of ethical duty within a statutory framework – Keynote address to the August 2007 Conference of Residential Tenancy Adjudications
• Everything you tell me is confidential except that which I am obliged to tell others - August 2009 AMINZ Annual Conference
• Dealing with High Emotion in Conflict Situations - LexisNexis Webinar, Dispute Resolution Series, presented with Ann Edge and Deborah Clapshaw on 17 March 2010. (To view the webinar please click here)
• Professorial Inaugural Address: Where have the bricks gone? - July 2010
• Response to the question "Is an independent and effective disputes tribunal a necessity?" - May 2011 Conference on Reviewing New Zealand's Accident Compensation System.
• The Duty of Disclosure: How Shall We Be Judged? - August 2011 AMINZ Annual Conference
• Ethics Papers to the Law Society of New South Wales, Australia - 2013
• ABA Miami 2014
• ABA Seattle 2015
• ABA Oregon University 2015
• CS - Seminars given since 2012