Annotated High Court Rules, 4th edition

Matthew Casey QC graduated LLB(Hons) from Auckland University and was admitted to the bar in 1975. He worked at Kensington Swan, and its predecessors, as a litigation partner for 23 years until he left in 2002 to commence practice as a barrister. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2007. Matthew;s specialty areas of resource management, public and administrative law are in addition to his extensive civil litigation practice, and he has argued several leading cases in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. In 2012, he was engaged as lead New Zealand counsel for the interests of the MV Rena following its grounding off the Bay of Plenty, through to the eventual resolution in 2018 of the resource consent process to authorise its abandonment.

Chris Corry is a barrister engaged in civil litigation since 1975. He contributed titles in [Laws of New Zealand] (Leases, and Limitation of Civil Proceedings) and to [Sims Court Practice]. He has previously written for Butterworths Taxation Service and has written for the [Conveyancing Bulletin]. He prepared the Law Commission’s Miscellaneous Paper NZLC MP 16 Update Report on Limitation Defences and was a member of the working party on the Limitation Bill that became the Limitation Act 2010. He is author of the [Limitation Act Handbook]. He lectured in evidence at Victoria University Wellington from 1981 to 1988.

Hon John Faire graduated LLB (Hons) from Auckland University in 1971, joining Hamilton law firm Stace Hammond Grace & Bishop in April 1971 and becoming a partner of the firm in 1972. He spent three years from 1975 to 1977 as a commercial law examiner for the New Zealand Society of Accountants. He was appointed a Master of the High Court in 1996, becoming an Associate Judge of the High Court when the title changed in 2004. In 2011 he was appointed a Temporary Judge of the High Court from February to June 2011, and appointed Justice of the High Court in 2013.

Jessica C Lai is senior lecturer of commercial law at Victoria University of Wellington, where she researches in intellectual property, especially patent law and the protection of traditional knowledge. She has published numerous articles, chapters, books and edited books in these fields, and is the author of [Indigenous Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Property Rights] (Springer 2014) and co-author of [Patent Law and Policy] (with Susy Frankel, LexisNexis 2016). Before joining Victoria University, she was a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich. Between 2010 and 2012, Jessica was a Research Fellow at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland.

Polly Pope is a litigation partner at Russell McVeagh. Her practice focusses on construction, financial regulatory and insolvency disputes. Polly is an Associate of the Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand and serves as a member of its appointments panel and is a member of the faculty of the New Zealand Law Society's Litigation Skills Course.