The Law Association of New Zealand

Contractual Misrepresentations and Mistakes (2025) (On Demand)

This On Demand was recorded on 25 November 2025.

Sale and purchase agreements for real estate and businesses are among the most common contracts entered in New Zealand. When misrepresentations and/or mistakes occur, the implications for vendor and purchaser (and other interested parties) can be significant, stressful and costly. 

This On Demand will provide transactional and litigation perspectives and insights into pre-contract due diligence and options post-settlement when misrepresentations or mistakes are discovered.

Learning Outcomes

  • Deepen and update your knowledge of due diligence and best practice.
  • Delve into issues that can (and do) arise pre-settlement and post-settlement.
  • Refresh your understanding of the options for litigation, including measure of damages, should that course be required.


Who Should Watch?

Property lawyers, conveyancers and legal executives. Civil and commercial litigators are also likely to find it useful.


Presenters

Kchitij Tiwari, Director, Jury Law Limited
Sarah Wroe, Barrister, Eldon Chambers


Kchitij Tiwari

Kchitij Tiwari (KT) is the Director of Jury Law Limited, a high-volume property and business conveyancing practice in Auckland. His work spans residential and commercial conveyancing, business sale and purchase transactions, trust structuring, and complex settlement advisory.

Through handling close to 100 transactions per month, KT works at the coalface of real-time conveyancing issues. His practice frequently involves advising on conditional contracts, due diligence complexities, assignment and consent issues, vendor finance, cross-lease variations, and settlement risk. This exposure has given him a practical, detail-driven understanding of how the ADLS agreement operates in fast-moving and nuanced contexts.

KT is known for his clear, structured approach, and focus on helping clients and practitioners navigate the intersection between contract mechanics, risk management, and the realities of property transactions. 

He brings a practitioner’s perspective grounded in commercial experience, problem-solving, and day-to-day transactional insight.

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Sarah Wroe

Sarah is a barrister at Eldon Chambers in Auckland. She has been counsel in many cases involving misrepresentation, mistakes and misleading conduct in the sale of property, businesses and leasehold interests. She regularly advises vendors and purchasers when high-stake decisions need to be made on cancellation or litigation. Originally from Northern Ireland, Sarah read law at Cambridge University where she graduated First Class. She was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1998 and practised on the western circuit from Chambers in Bristol. She moved to New Zealand in 2006 and was admitted here in 2011. She joined the independent Bar in 2017.

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Details

CPD Hours: 1.50hr

Pricing Details

Ticket Price

Member: $155 plus GST
Non-Member: $220 plus GST





This On Demand includes the video and materials, and will earn CPD. 

Click here to access materials only.




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