Takaro Properties Ltd v Rowling [1986] 1 NZLR 22; [1987] 2 NZLR 700 (PC) – junior counsel for the Minister of Finance in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Privy Council to successfully establish that the Crown is not liable in damages for administrative law error.

Ritchies Transport Holdings Ltd v the Otago Regional Council and Ors, unreported judgment of the Court of Appeal dated 16 August 1991 – counsel for Transit NZ in a complex case involving tendering for publicly funded bus services for Dunedin City.

Napier City Council v Healthcare Hawke’s Bay, Central Regional Health Authority and Attorney‑General, unreported judgment of Ellis J, 15 December 1994 – counsel for the Central RHA and the Attorney-General relating to the location of a new regional hospital.

Reckitt and Colman (NZ) Ltd v Pharmaceutical Management Agency Ltd, [1997] NZAR 464 – counsel for Pharmac successfully resisting the extension of public funding for Gaviscon medicine to a new flavour.

Research Medicines Industry Association and Anor. v Pharmaceutical Management Agency Ltd, [1998] 3 NZLR 12 (CA) – counsel for Parmac relating to an allegation of anti-competitive conduct successfully upholding strike out of the proceeding in the High Court.

Electoral Commission v Tate, [1999] 3 NZLR 174 (CA) – counsel assisting in the High Court and the Court of Appeal in relation to a political party’s obligations for disclosure of electoral expenses.

Clare Bleakley v Environmental Risk Management Authority and Ors, unreported judgment of Miller J dated 14 December 2004 – counsel for ERMA in successful defence of judicial review challenge to ERMA’s approval of genetically modified sheep field trial in containment.

Ancare NZ Ltd v Wyeth (NZ) Ltd and Environmental Risk Management Authority, [2009] 3 NZLR 501 (CA) - Counsel for ERMA reversing High Court judgment and sustaining ERMA’s hearing procedures concerning the protection of intellectual property between two contesting commercial parties.

Maritime New Zealand v Birchall, [2009] NZCA 119 – counsel for Maritime New Zealand in the successful criminal appeal concerning maritime safety responsibilities in relation to the unusual situation of a ship with two masters on board.

Financial Services Complaints Ltd v Chief Ombudsman, [2016] NZAR 717; [2017] NZAR 521; [2018] 2 NZLR 884 (CA); [2021] 2 NZLR 475; [2022] 2 NZLR 740 (CA) – counsel for Financial Services Complaints Ltd in two successful judicial review proceedings to establish the right of Financial Services Complaints Ltd to use the Ombudsman name.

Cooke v Coroner’s Court, [2012] NZAR 212; [2021] NZHC 3594; 2022 NZHC 1515 – counsel assisting the High Court in a judicial review of protracted Coroner’s Court proceedings with leave to cross-examine a witness in the High Court refused.

W v W, [2023] NZHC 3491 – counsel assisting the High Court in relationship property appeal involving judicial misconduct in the Family Court.

Andrews v Judicial Conduct Commissioner, [2023] NZHC 3888 – counsel assisting the High Court in a judicial review of a decision of the Judicial Conduct Commissioner.

Lee v Chief of Air Staff; Kelliher v Attorney-General, (1986) 1 PRNZ 123 – counsel for the Crown in two separate judicial review proceedings successfully confirming obligations of RNZAF pilots to complete their terms of service.

Airways Corporation of New Zealand Limited v Geyserland Airways Limited, [1994] DCR 1037; [1996] 1 NZLR 116 – counsel for Airways Corporation in a test case relating to the Corporation’s standard terms and conditions of contract for providing air traffic control services.

International Heliparts NZ Ltd v Director of Civil Aviation, [1997] 1 NZLR 230 – counsel for the Director sustaining continued suspension of a certificate of approval as part of a regulatory response to the supply of bogus helicopter parts.

Air New Zealand v Director of Civil Aviation, [2002] 3 NZLR 796 – counsel for the Director relying on the Chicago Convention as given effect to in New Zealand law to sustain refusal to register an aircraft already on the register of another state party to the Convention.

Oceania Aviation Ltd v Director of Civil Aviation, unreported Court of Appeal judgment of 13 March 2001 – counsel for the Director successfully upholding High Court judgment in dismissing misfeasance and negligence case relating to regulatory action concerning bogus helicopter parts.

Air Chathams Ltd v Civil Aviation Authority, [2003] 16 PRNZ 676 – counsel for the CAA on a successful application to have an expert witness affidavit struck out for breach of the Code of Conduct for Expert Witnesses and bringing the substantive case to an end.

Director of Civil Aviation v Paterson, unreported series of judgments of Wild J, 27 April 2005, 1 June 2005 and 23 June 2005 – counsel for the Director of Civil Aviation in staying judgment of the District Court on appeal and ultimately sustaining the Director’s refusal of a medical certificate for an airline captain due to syncope episodes.

Director of Civil Aviation v Air National Corporate Ltd, [2011] NZAR 152 (CA) – counsel for the Director overturning the High Court judgment and reinstating the summary suspension of an air operator’s certificate on a precautionary basis pending investigation.

Nicholls v Airways Corporation of NZ Ltd, [2012] NZCA 444; [2012] NZSC 114 – counsel for the Airways Corporation upholding the High Court judgment applying the Geyserland Airways case and confirming the right to withhold the provision of air traffic services if an operator objects to the Corporation’s standard terms of contract and the right to recovery of charges on a quantum meruit basis if necessary.

Civil Aviation Authority and Director of Civil Aviation v New Zealand Air Line Pilots’ Association, [2012] NZAR 66 (CA) – counsel for the appellants in a mostly unsuccessful appeal relating to the safety regulator’s proposal to randomly audit airline pilots for continued medical fitness.

Ayley v Malaysian Airlines System Berhad – Montreal Convention personal injury claim in the High Court – counsel for the family of a passenger who died in the destruction of MH17 by a Russian missile in Ukrainian airspace on 17 July 2014 with a confidential settlement approved by the Court in 2017.

New Zealand Aviation Federation v Director of Civil Aviation, [2021] NZHC 2674 – counsel for the Director successfully opposing a judicial review challenge to aspects of the ‘New Southern Sky project’ to implement new aviation satellite-based navigation systems in New Zealand.