Presenters

Gary Hughes, Barrister, Britomart Chambers
Gary is a leading independent lawyer at Britomart Chambers, specialising in all types of regulatory investigations, enforcement and disputes, advocacy, and advice. His insurance practice has a focus on financial lines, D&O, or statutory liability cases. He has deep expertise in resolving issues with business crime regulators – especially the Commerce Commission, Financial Markets Authority, AML/CFT Supervisors, Serious Fraud Office, Privacy Commission, and other government agencies. Widely known for specialist work on Competition law and Anti-Money Laundering cases, Gary is a member of the NZ Law Society Law Reform Committee, Chair of the International Bar Association’s AML & Sanctions Experts committee, and author of the Thomson Reuters textbook AML/CFT Workflows & Guidance for Lawyers. At the cutting edge of regulatory issues, his work includes the DIA’s first AML/CFT pecuniary penalty case, Russian Sanctions Act issues, and defending the first criminal cartel prosecution in New Zealand. Gary has worked on insurance law disputes and problems throughout his 28-year career including at leading law firms (Clyde & Co, Chapman Tripp and Wilson Harle) and for a period in-house at Aon UK. That ranges from defending claims against directors/managers, to policy coverage disputes, to Commerce Commission or RBNZ prudential investigation of insurance companies. Gary’s pragmatic strategic approach also makes him a sought-after trainer of Boards and Professional partnerships. Admitted in NZ (1996), also qualified in England & Wales and Supreme Court of NSW Australia.


Toby Gee, Barrister and Mediator, Lambton Chambers
Toby Gee has more than 24 years’ experience as a trial lawyer and specialist counsel. He completed his training as a barrister in the Inner Temple, London in 1992-1993. From 1993 until 2013, he practised as a barrister at Crown Office Chambers in London, instructed by many leading UK firms of solicitors to represent insurers, other corporate entities, government entities and individuals in civil claims at all levels up to and including the Court of Appeal. Toby’s main specialisms are in insurance, commercial/contractual disputes, professional liability, medico-legal matters, product liability (medical and non-medical), engineering and construction, and health and safety. In 1997 Toby was a Pegasus Scholar at Chapman Tripp Sheffield Young (as it then was) in Wellington. While on a sabbatical from his London practice in 2005-2006, as well as working in the policy group at ACC he worked with several Wellington barristers on a variety of civil disputes. As well as being a barrister, Toby is an accredited mediator. He is also a member of the governance board of the New Zealand Choral Federation, and a trustee of St Mark’s Church School, Wellington.