Justin specialises in technology, media and telecommunications, intellectual property, media law, corporate and commercial dispute resolution and Iwi governance issues.
Justin is experienced at managing and resolving complex commercial litigation and disputes. He has frequently appeared as counsel in civil proceedings in the High Court and Court of Appeal and regularly prosecutes trade mark applications and oppositions for many clients before the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand.
Justin is secretary of Chapman Tripp’s Pro Bono Committee, and a member of Te Waka Ture, Chapman Tripp’s Māori Services Group. Justin also lectures at the University of Auckland, at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, in intellectual property law. Justin is the author of the New Zealand chapter of International Copyright Law published by Globe Law and Business.
Justin is a member of the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand and of the Media Lawyers’ Association. He has presented several seminars on privacy and defamation law, including to the Magazine Publishers’ Association and the New Zealand Journalists’ Training Organisation. He has contributed articles in his areas of interest to the New Zealand Law Journal and the New Zealand Intellectual Property Journal.
Recent experience
Justin has advised:
- on complex IT project disputes in both High Court and arbitration proceedings
- Waikato-Tainui Te Kauhanganui Incorporated on governance issues
- ACP Media in its intervention in both the High Court and Court of Appeal in the well-known Hosking privacy litigation
- Microsoft Corporation in the execution of a search warrant following a multinational investigation into an Internet pirate leading to one of the few criminal convictions under the Copyright Act 1994
- on domain name disputes including acting in arbitration before the World Intellectual Property Organisation, and
- Microsoft Corporation on its anti-piracy campaign, including appearing in several copyright infringement proceedings in the High Court, and advising on trade mark, border protection and trade practice matters.