Jeremy quickly grasps complex legal situations and provides accurate, commercially realistic advice. From mediations to arbitrations to court hearings Jeremy is skilled at applying legal principles to help you craft and execute a strategy to achieve your goals.

Jeremy will be proactive in driving your case and applying his insight and experience to solving your dispute. Jeremy has particular expertise in commercial, insolvency, equity, relationship property and trust and estate law. He is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and holds a STEP Advanced Certificate in Trust Disputes, placing first in his global class. Jeremy has offices in both Auckland and Christchurch and works on cases across New Zealand and in Singapore.

Areas of Focus

Contentious Trusts & Estates

Arbitration

Dispute Resolution

Relationship Property & Family Law

Shareholder Disputes

Recent Case Law

In his career Jeremy has appeared as lead counsel in the majority of his reported cases. His recent cases cover a wide area of law and a number of them are leading authorities in their area. He regularly appears in court and often takes matters at short notice.

Recent Case Law

In his career Jeremy has appeared in over 25 reported cases and in the majority of them as lead counsel. His recent cases cover a wide area of law and a number of them are leading authorities in their area. He regularly appears in court and often takes matters at short notice.

Papers & Publications

  • Whose Claim is it Anyway? A Discussion of the ‘Vandepitte’ Procedure and Call for a Stricter and More Coherent Approach to Beneficiary Derivative Actions in Aotearoa New Zealand [2025]
  • An Untapped Well: The Case for Legislative Reform to Enable the Arbitration of Trust Disputes in Singapore [2025]
  • Complex Trusts and Corporate Structures for Relationship Property Settlements [2025]
  • Equity vs Pragmatism in Trust Disputes [2025]
  • Pre-Nuptial Agreements: Advantages, Legal Requirements, and Risk Factors under the Property (Relationships) Act 1976 [2024]
  • Tikanga & Succession: Death and the Law Intensive [2022]
  • Trusts & Limitation: Untying the Knot [2021]
  • Religion and the Law: Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in State Care in the Care of Faith-based Institutions [2021]
  • Family Law Arbitration: How to Enforce [2019]
  • Arbitration in Action: Principles, Practice and Practicalities [2019]
  • Court Supervision of Trusts [2019]

Papers & Publications

  • Who Should Pay and When [2019] NZLJ 360
  • The Arbitration of Trust Disputes: Opportunities and Risks (The Arbitrator & Mediator December 2014)
  • Directors’ and Officers’ policies [2014] NZLJ 126
  • Farewell to Hastings-Bass [2013] NZLJ 249
  • Peer-to-peer filesharing [2013] NZLJ 172
  • Steigrad v BFSL 2007 Ltd [2012] NZCA 604
  • Plain packaging for tobacco [2012] NZLJ 246
  • Earthquakes, mortgagees and lessees [2011] NZLJ 301
  • Contract: missed opportunity? [2010] NZLJ 50
  • ‘Anti-smacking law’ and judicial review [2009] NZLJ 11

Contact Jeremy for an appointment
027 418 1654