Stout Street Chambers

Stout Street Chambers is a leading New Zealand set, practising across the full range of civil and commercial litigation.

Barristers within Chambers are highly regarded and have diverse experience across all areas of civil litigation, with clients in both the public and private sectors and a focus on significant commercial disputes. Individual barristers are experts in particular fields, including company and securities law, administrative law and judicial review, competition and regulatory law, employment, tax, insurance, Treaty of Waitangi and Māori law, resource management, equity and trusts, international law and complex cross-border litigation. They also have experience of alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration.

Barristers act for the full range of private and public clients, multinational companies, the largest NewZealand companies and state-owned enterprises (including banks, telecommunication companies, energy companies, property investors and trustee companies), iwi and Māori organisations, high-net worth individuals, domestic and international insurers, litigation funders, government departments and agencies (including Treasury, Ministry of Social Development, New ZealandDefence Force, Overseas Investment Office, Commissioner of Inland Revenue) and regulators (Commerce Commission, Financial Markets Authority). They have been instructed by all of New Zealand’s large firms of solicitors.