Recent Experience

• Judicial review in relation to various matters, including development contributions, District Licensing Committee decision-making, and local electoral issues.

• Acting for customers and software vendors in disputes relating to software contracts.

• AGPAC v Hamilton City Council Co-counsel - Acted (with Alan Galbraith QC and Lachlan Muldowney) for Hamilton City Council successfully defending a wide-ranging judicial review challenge to its development contributions policy.

• Open Country Dairy Ltd v Commerce Commission – Acted for Open Country Dairy to clarify the appropriate process that Fonterra should follow in setting the farm gate milk price and how the Commerce Commission should carry out its obligations to review and report on Fonterra’s processes.

• Moeke v South Waikato District Council – Acted for the Council in its successful application to have a caveat lapse on the grounds that the contract had been cancelled.

• Lead counsel in the Court of Appeal for a landowner successfully appealing a High Court decision that had allowed a caveat to remain over its land.

• Co-counsel with Alan Galbraith QC in the High Court and Court of Appeal on an important case testing the status of Queen Elizabeth Trust Open Space  covenants.

• Commerce Act proceedings – Acted as counsel for a large international company in connection with an investigation and subsequent proceedings under the Commerce Act.

 

External Publications

• Kate was asked by Asia IP Law to comment on a ground-breaking High Court decision which found that the copyright that an artist holds in work they've created is relationship property, and falls under the presumption of equal sharing. Read the full article here. [Published 27 September 2021].

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