Tuesday, 24 March 2026
Early Bird Discount ends 19 Dec 2025
Chair
Philip Shackleton, Partner, Meredith Connell
Insurance Law Reforms and Developments Explored
- Full overhaul of insurance law: Contracts of Insurance Act 2024 coming into force
- Property insurance update: climate change and insurability, and changes to traditional insurance policies
- Liability insurance update: limitation of liability clauses, cyber liability insurance
Presented by Richard Hargreaves, Partner, Wynn Williams
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
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the key changes introduced by the Contracts of Insurance Act 2024
- Identify evolving issues in property and liability insurance and their legal implications
Presenters
Philip Shackleton, Partner, Meredith ConnellPhil is a lead partner in MC’s Insolvency, Recoveries and Enforcement Group and one of New Zealand’s most experienced banking, finance and insolvency litigators. He and his team act for creditors, private insolvency practitioners and the public sector, including the Official Assignee. For 21 years, Phil has had lead roles in some of New Zealand’s most important insolvency cases, including the precedent-setting Debut Homes litigation, the first time the Supreme Court considered the issue of director’s duties. Phil's particular expertise includes receiverships, liquidations, security enforcement, priority disputes, shareholder disputes, banking litigation and debt recovery.
Richard Hargreaves, Partner, Wynn Williams
Richard is a Partner at Wynn Williams and a specialist insurance lawyer. He has a particular focus on liability defence work. Richard is known for his work defending other lawyers under their professional indemnity policies, alongside engineers and architects disputes and complex general liability issues.
