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Practice Areas
Environmental and climate adaptation law and policy, including freshwater management and resource management reform.
Approach
Environmental law reform and dispute resolution take place within a complex legal and regulatory framework, often in conditions of incomplete or uncertain knowledge.
My work is to design and lead processes in which institutional actors, communities and individuals can work through difference, so that hard environmental decisions are accepted as fair and are more likely to endure.
Background
From 1994 to 2008 I practised as a lawyer, including as a specialist resource management barrister at Canterbury Chambers.
In 2008 I was appointed a Judge of the Environment and District Courts. As a judge, I presided over all aspects of environmental litigation, with a particular focus in the last five years on freshwater management.
In 2024, after 15 years on the bench, I retired from the judiciary and returned to practice at Rātā Chambers.
I trained in mediation at the University of Sydney (2018) and at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University (2024).
Memberships / Accreditations
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