Mr David Goddard QC

Qualifications

BA (Hons) (Victoria University of Wellington); MA (Oxon)

Admitted to the bar of England and Wales: 1988 Admitted to the New Zealand bar: 1989 Appointed Queen's Counsel: 2003

Professional experience

David Goddard has a wide ranging commercial litigation practice, with an emphasis on competition law and regulation, company law, contract law, public law and international law.

David studied mathematics and French at Victoria University of Wellington, obtaining a first class honours degree in mathematics and the Sir Robert Stout Scholarship for the best first degree in the University across all faculties. He began his legal studies in New Zealand, then studied law at Oxford University (on a Rhodes Scholarship), obtaining a first class honours degree.

David spent two years as a lecturer in law at Bristol University, before returning to New Zealand to join Chapman Tripp (a leading New Zealand law firm) in 1988. He was a litigation partner at that firm from 1991 to 1998. He began practice as a barrister sole in 1999. From 2001 to 2003 he held a part-time appointment as Special Counsel - International with the Ministry of Economic Development, advising on cross-border coordination of business laws.

David has appeared as counsel in the High Court, Court of Appeal, Privy Council and Supreme Court and before arbitral tribunals in a wide range of civil and commercial cases. He has extensive experience representing clients in mediations and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.

David has been appointed as an arbitrator to determine a number of commercial disputes. He is an Associate Member of the Arbitrators' and Mediators' Institute of New Zealand.

David also has a substantial involvement in legal policy advice. His policy advice practice focuses on advising governments and intergovernmental organisations on reform of commercial laws and institutions to facilitate market activity and economic development.

David publishes and speaks extensively in his areas of specialisation. He has taught at universities in New Zealand, Australia and England. He is the moderator of the contract law papers of the six New Zealand university law schools, appointed by the Council of Legal Education. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Private International Law and the New Zealand Universities Law Review.

Projects which David has undertaken, in addition to his litigation practice, include advising Parliamentary Committees and Government Departments on a wide range of commercial law and cross-border issues; representing the New Zealand Government in negotiations with Australia on a number oflegal coordination initiatives; membership of the Trans-Tasman Working Group on Court Proceedings and Regulatory Enforcement, established by the Australian and New Zealand Governments; representing the New Zealand Government at meetings of the Hague Conference on Private International Law; conducting a Ministerial Inquiry into ACC Funding and Accreditation of Physiotherapy Services; and providing policy advice on commercial law and governance issues to Governments and intergovernmental organisations in Jamaica, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Bangladesh, Samoa, Tonga and Niue.