Paul David Barrister New Zealand

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

Eldon Chambers
Level 1, 5 High Street
PO Box 4472
Shortland Street
Auckland 1140
New Zealand

Tel: +64 9 379 5589
Fax: +64 9 379 5590
Mob: +64 21 421 423

or contact here

Maritime and transport law

Paul has given a paper to the New Zealand branch of MLAANZ (The Search for Oil in New Zealand Waters: Work to be done?) which was also published in the Australia and New Zealand Maritime Law Journal in 2011.

Supreme Court decision

The 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
In the long running litigation between various cargo owners and the operators of the vessel Tasman Pioneer, the Supreme Court has held, reversing the decisions in the courts below, that Article 4.2(a) of the Hague-Visby Rules applied to exclude the liability of the operator of a liner trading service for claims brought by various cargo owners....Read more

The Rotterdam Rules - new regime relating to the carriage of goods by sea

The 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 Carriage

In 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 law

Interpretation

Vector 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

Publications

A Guide to the WADA Code, CUP 2008

In 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 presentations

Paul 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: