Public Law

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Provided by MinterEllisonRuddWatts

The public law team at MinterEllisonRuddWatts assist public sector clients on how to best exercise their statutory powers, as well as with the drafting and interpretation of legislation. Members of the team have held roles within government and public sector organisations so understand the sector well. On the private sector side, the team assists clients in engaging with government (including regulators), in seeking to influence policy and legislative reform, and in complying with their legal obligations.

The team holds a broad network at all levels of New Zealand Government – either working within the firm or as board members of commissions, crown companies, state-owned enterprises and ministerial advisory committees. Several lawyers have held senior roles in key government departments.

• Represented NZALS, an autonomous Crown entity with its origins in the provision of rehabilitation assistance to disabled soldiers returning from World War I, but now with a broader public health mandate, in an appeal by an unsuccessful applicant (a competitor, MoveMe Health Ltd) for judicial review of NZALS’s development of activities to include a greater focus on amputation prevention.
• Acted for the Treasury on the Crown's NZD2.1 billion purchase of the shares in Kiwi Group Holdings Limited (Kiwibank's parent company) allowing the Crown to retain New Zealand ownership of Kiwibank.