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John is a
litigation partner in the Auckland
office of Kensington Swan specialising in competition law and
commercial litigation.
John has
successfully project managed a number of large litigation and
arbitration cases including major litigation for Dymocks
booksellers where John was counsel for Dymocks
in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Privy Council, for Eli Lilly
in major patent litigation in the High Court and for a group of major
retailers in litigation involving credit card interchange fees.
In the field of competition law John frequently advises clients in
relation to applications for clearance or authorisation to the
Commerce Commission and has appeared as counsel in respect of appeals
to the High Court against Commerce Commission decisions. He has
also acted for clients in relation to a number of Commerce Commission
investigations, Commerce Act pecuniary penalty actions and Fair
Trading Act prosecutions.
Clients in the field of competition law have included Gullivers Pacific in its opposition to the
Qantas/Air New Zealand alliance, Woolworths, Foodstuffs, Farmers,
Noel Leeming and Red Group in relation to
credit card interchange fees, i4free and CallPlus
in opposition to Telecom, and the New Zealand Rugby Union with
respect to player transfer regulations before the Commerce Commission
and in the High Court and with respect to its salary cap for the
national provincial championship. In addition to client work,
John has presented submissions to the Select Committee on the
Commerce Amendment Bills (1990 and 1999). He frequently presents
papers and writes published articles on the subject of Competition
law.
John also specialises in insurance law particularly with regard to
directors’ and officers’ liability and professional
indemnity insurance. He also has extensive corporate litigation
experience including shareholder disputes, claims against directors,
and takeover litigation.
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