Presenters

James Skinner, Director, Skinners Law
James is an experienced civil litigator who has represented a wide range of clients, from individuals to companies and councils across New Zealand. He has acted in disputes regarding leaky buildings and many other types of construction cases, trusts/estates, commercial, company, property, insolvency/debt recovery, employment, sports appeals, driving offences and some criminal charges. During this time he?s helped out people from each side of the coin ? building contractors and homeowners, employers and employees, creditors and debtors, suppliers and customers, landlords and tenants, as well as business owners and sports professionals.

Janine Stewart, Partner, MinterEllisonRuddWatts
Janine Stewart is an experienced construction and property lawyer having advised on numerous complex construction projects and disputes in New Zealand. She is experienced in adjudication, arbitration and litigation. Janine provides expert legal advice and dispute resolution services in all aspects of construction and commercial property disputes. Janine is an active member of the New Zealand Society of Construction Law. She presents regularly on construction and property issues, both at conferences and to individual clients.

Matthew Ferrier, Partner, MinterEllisonRuddWatts
Matthew acts for both private and public sector clients on a broad range of complex and high-profile disputes. He is an experienced advocate, with a particular interest in major latent building defect litigation, and a regulatory investigations and prosecutions specialist. His recent experience includes acting on two of New Zealand’s largest, most complex latent defect claims involving novel structural and fire defects, claims arising from the Canterbury earthquake sequence, defending regulatory investigations and prosecutions brought by various regulators, Coronial inquiry work, fraud recovery, and public law litigation.