This On Demand was recorded at the Family Law Conference on 26 September 2024.
This session will provide bar and bench perspectives on best practice advocacy for conferences and in hearings, balancing CoCA and FCA obligations in a court setting, and some common errors and how to avoid them.
Mark is a barrister practising at Mills Lane Chambers in Auckland. He has over 35 years’ experience as a commercial litigator. He specialises in relationship property and trust litigation and also acts as counsel in a range of commercial disputes.
Mark joined the independent bar in 2020 and before that he was a litigation partner at national law firm MinterEllisonRuddWatts for 28 years.
In his early career as a litigation partner at MinterEllisonRuddWatts, Mark specialised in litigation involving financial services and receivership and insolvency law. He transitioned to Relationship Property and Trust Litigation approximately 15 years ago and this is now his primary focus.
Mark has extensive experience in running civil litigation matters in the Family Court, High Court and Appeal Courts.
Judge Morrison sits in the North Shore Family Court. Prior to her appointment in May 2022, she was a family law barrister, Lawyer for Child, Lawyer for Subject Person and Lawyer to Assist practising in the Wellington region, where she had spent most of her career, which also included time as an instructor and Programme Manager at the Institute of Professional Legal Studies. Her iwi affiliations include Ngāti Porou and Te Whānau-ā-Apanui.
Ticket Price
Member: $86 GST
Non-Member: $120 GST