Paul David BA (Hons) LLM (Cantab) is an independent barrister with extensive experience as an adviser and advocate in a wide range of litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution. Paul has specialist expertise in shipping and international trade law and in legal issues affecting sport. More
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Supreme Court decisionThe New Zealand Supreme Court has decided questions of interpretation relating to the legal regimes applying to the carriage of goods within New Zealand and internationally. International Carriage of Goods by Sea The Rotterdam Rules - new regime relating to the carriage of goods by seaThe United Nations General Assembly has adopted the Convention on Contracts for the international Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea. It is intended that this Convention will replace the Hague-Visby Rules with a more modern regime for the international carriage of goods by sea....Read more Domestic CarriageIn Ports of Auckland Limited v Southpac Trucks Ltd [2010] 1 NZLR 363 (see Supreme Court decision), the Supreme Court considered the regime which governs the domestic carriage of goods within New Zealand - the Carriage of Goods Act 1979....Read more Contract lawInterpretationVector Gas v Bay of Plenty Energy (see Supreme Court decision) - In contrast, there was less unanimity in the court in relation to the principles of contract interpretation...Read more PublicationsA Guide to the WADA Code, CUP 2008In 2008, Cambridge University Press published A Guide to the World Anti-Doping Code - A Fight for the Spirit of Sport by Paul David. The text provides a guide to the international regime which aims to assist all who may have to deal with doping matters under the Code, whether as administrators, advisors, or adjudicators. A second edition is due out in 2012. Papers and presentationsPaul has given a paper to the Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Association on The World Anti-Doping Code - Current Issues. Further papers, see recent developments in Shipping Law. For contract law papers, see: | |
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