Litigation
Bell Gully's litigation practice is New Zealand's largest and widely acknowledged as its strongest. With a team of experts covering the full range of commercial and public law expertise, our practice deals with complex and contentious commercial disputes in all areas. Our team of more than 50 barristers and solicitors regularly appear before courts and tribunals at all levels and are involved in a significant proportion of the major commercial litigation conducted in New Zealand. 
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News & Publications
Wednesday 12 June 2013
Regulatory investigations & prosecutions
Over recent years, regulators have become increasingly aggressive in pursuing investigations and prosecutions against companies, directors and employees.
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Article posted by David Cooper, Partner and Jenny Stevens, Partner | Related topics: Litigation
Tuesday 4 June 2013
Be careful what you wish for: Court of Appeal rules against the Lombard directors
In its decision released last week, the Court of Appeal not only upheld the convictions of the former directors of Lombard Finance, but has ruled that their sentences should be increased.
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Article posted by David Friar, Partner and Sophie East, Senior Associate | Related topics: Litigation, Corporate / Commercial
Tuesday 14 May 2013
Judicial Review: Being Candid About the Duty of Candour
A party to an application for judicial review has a duty to be candid with the Court and any other party.
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Article posted by Garry Williams, Senior Associate | Related topics: Litigation
Tuesday 26 March 2013
Searches by the Serious Fraud Office
Bell Gully has produced a guide for businesses to follow in order to ensure that searches by the Serious Fraud Office are carried out appropriately.
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Related topics: Litigation, Corporate / Commercial
Tuesday 12 March 2013
Information exchanges - the ABCs of "hub and spoke" arrangements
In March 2012 ( Too much information – Information exchange between competitors ), we discussed the risks involved in exchanging information with competitors.
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Article posted by Simon Ladd, Partner and Andy Glenie, Senior Associate | Related topics: Litigation, Competition
Monday 11 March 2013
Trade Marks: Reply evidence must be "strictly in reply"
Regulation 85 of the Trade Mark Regulations 2003 provides that: An opponent to an application for registration may, if the applicant has filed evidence, file evidence strictly in reply within 1 month after the opponent has received a copy of the applicant's evidence.
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Article posted by Garry Williams, Senior Associate | Related topics: Litigation, Trade Marks
Monday 25 February 2013
ACCC v Google Inc [2013] HCA 1
On 6 February 2013, the High Court of Australia unanimously overturned the decision of the Full Federal Court of Australia and held that Google was not in breach of section 52 of the Trade Practices Act 1947 by way of publishing misleading advertisements of third parties which were displayed as ‘sponsored links' on the Google Australia website.
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Related topics: Litigation, Intellectual Property, Marketing and Sales
Monday 25 February 2013
Dos and Don'ts for drafting alternative dispute resolution causes
In our experience there are a number of matters commonly overlooked when parties draft alternative dispute resolution (ADR) clauses. The following piece does not purport to be a complete guide to drafting such clauses, but rather we have highlighted what we see as five key issues to address.
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Article posted by Ian Gault, Partner and Sophie East, Senior Associate | Related topics: Litigation
