Litigation
Bell Gully's litigation practice is New Zealand's largest and widely acknowledged as its strongest. With a team of experts covering the full range of commercial and public law expertise, our practice deals with complex and contentious commercial disputes in all areas, including, banking and finance, corporate and securities, employment, insurance, infrastructure and projects, intellectual property, media, tax, property and public law. Our team of more than 50 barristers and solicitors regularly appear before courts and tribunals at all levels and are involved in a significant proportion of the major commercial litigation conducted in New Zealand. During the last five years, we have appeared in more than 60 cases reported in the New Zealand Law Reports, the official publication of leading cases. 
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News & Events
Monday 8 March 2010
Cartel criminalisation – where Australia stands we stand?
The Trade Practices Amendment (Cartel Conduct and Other Measures) Act 2009 came into effect in Australia in July last year, introducing criminal liability for cartel conduct (arrangements between competitors involving price fixing, bid rigging, market allocation, and output restrictions) in Australia.
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Article posted by Simon Ladd, Partner | Related topics: Competition, Litigation
Monday 1 March 2010
Chambers Global names Bell Gully New Zealand market leader
Bell Gully has again emerged as a market-leading law firm in the latest research by international legal publisher Chambers and Partners.
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Related topics: Corporate, Banking and Finance, Commercial Law, Competition, Energy, Government, Litigation, Employment, Insolvency, Technology, Climate Change, Intellectual Property, Tax
Tuesday 15 December 2009
Supreme Court confirms Commerce Commission subject to limitation period
The Supreme Court has confirmed that the Commerce Commission is subject to the three year limitation period in s 43 of the Fair Trading Act 1986 (FTA) when it brings proceedings for compensation on behalf of consumers.
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Article posted by Jenny Cooper, Partner | Related topics: Competition, Litigation
Friday 13 November 2009
Are new surveillance powers warranted?
Arising from recommendations of the Law Commission, the Search and Surveillance Bill 2009 (Bill) proposes a number of significant reforms to consolidate and harmonise existing search warrant powers for non-Police regulatory agencies including the Commerce Commission (the Commission).
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Article posted by Ralph Simpson, Partner and Jesse Wilson, Solicitor | Related topics: Litigation, Competition
Wednesday 11 November 2009
Bell Gully first New Zealand firm to be awarded full Asia Pacific top rankings
Bell Gully has become the first New Zealand law firm to secure top tier rankings across all practice areas in a single year after the release of the latest Asia Pacific Legal 500 guide.
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Related topics: Banking and Finance, Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions, Litigation, Employment, Intellectual Property, Infrastructure and Projects, Construction and Development, Environment/Resource Management, Insolvency, Tax
Wednesday 4 November 2009
Ringleaders punished for role in "largest pharmaceutical spamming operation in the history of the internet"
New Zealand's anti-spam agency is hailing a major success after the High Court awarded significant penalties against two local men involved in what is being described as the "largest pharmaceutical spamming operation in the history of the internet".
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Article posted by Jessie Parker, Solicitor | Related topics: Technology, Marketing and Sales, Litigation
Friday 16 October 2009
Cartels, leniency, markers, and double-dip dobbing
There are few areas of the law where there is formal provision for a person who has breached a statute to implicate others to escape liability themselves.
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Article posted by Simon Ladd, Partner and Jenny Stevens, Partner | Related topics: Competition, Litigation
Friday 18 September 2009
Time to counter the counterfactual?
Questions over the use of the counterfactual test in misuse of market power cases under section 36 of the Commerce Act have been raised in the recent Court of Appeal decision in the "0867 proceedings", Commerce Commission v Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Ltd [2009] NZCA 338.
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Article posted by Jenny Cooper, Partner and Farzana Nizam, Law Clerk | Related topics: Competition, Litigation, Telecommunications
