Thursday, 28 August 2025
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the structure and key components of a well-drafted statement of claim, defence, and reply
- Apply practical drafting techniques and avoid common pitfalls through analysis of real case examples
*Original Content was created in October 2024
Drafting the Statement of Claim, Defence and Reply: Best Practice with Case Examples
- What makes a good pleading and why is it so important
- Basic principles for the Statement of Claim, Defence and Reply and the different approaches to each
- The distinction between facts and evidence and how and when to plead particulars
- Structure of the pleading
- Case examples: best practice and things to try and avoid
Presented by Jai Moss, Barrister, Canterbury Chambers
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Chair
Bill Gambrill, Special Counsel, Martelli McKegg Lawyers
Presenters
Jai Moss, Barrister, Canterbury ChambersJai Moss is a barrister at Canterbury Chambers. He has practiced as a barrister for 10 years and has a broad practice in civil and commercial litigation specialising in contract and commercial disputes, Companies Act matters, defamation, estate and trust matters, insurance, insolvency, professional negligence, and tort. Jai has appeared as junior counsel in the Supreme Court and lead counsel in the Court of Appeal, High Court, District Court, various Tribunals and arbitrations. Jai has also been appointed amicus curiae by the High Court. Jai graduated with Honours from Canterbury University in 1997 and is qualified in New Zealand and New South Wales, Australia. Prior to joining the independent bar, he worked in Magic Circle firms in London, and national and boutique law firms in Sydney and Christchurch.
Bill Gambrill, Special Counsel, Martelli McKegg Lawyers
Bill is a commercial litigation lawyer at Martelli McKegg, solicitors in Auckland. Admitted in 1992, Bill worked in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, before moving to Dubai in 2005. Bill joined Martelli McKegg from Dubai at the beginning of 2020. His New Zealand career has been in the fields of insolvency proceedings, directors’ duties claim, trust litigation, conflict of laws and enforcement of foreign judgments. In Dubai, Bill acted in proceedings before the English-language, common law courts established in Dubai's International Financial Centre, and also in a number of arbitrations. Bill also worked on cross-border disputes. Bill is a member of the Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association of New Zealand, and a member (associate status) of the Arbitrators' and Mediators' Institute of New Zealand (AMINZ).
