James Every-Palmer KC

James is an experienced competition and regulatory lawyer with a wide-ranging commercial litigation practice. James appears in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. He has also acted as an arbitrator, and has been engaged in a number of law reform, public policy and market design projects in the electricity, banking, diary and telecommunications sectors.

Before joining the independent bar in 2013, James was a partner at Russell McVeagh (2001-2013) in the corporate and litigation groups, and was chair of the national litigation team. He has significant experience in the dairy, transport, energy, financial services, telecommunications and information technology sectors.

James has a doctorate in Artificial Intelligence and Legal Reasoning from the University of Oxford. Before joining Russell McVeagh, James was an intern in the legal division of the IMF (Washington DC, 1995) and a consultant on legal regulation of the internet at the OECD in Paris 1998.

Before joining the independent bar in 2013, James was a partner at Russell McVeagh in the corporate and litigation groups, and chair of the national litigation team.

James has a doctorate in Artificial Intelligence and Legal Reasoning from the University of Oxford.

- Climate Change: What can Lawyers do? (NZLS CLE Conference, 2023).

- Regulation of new technologies: Institutions and processes (New Zealand Law Foundation research paper, 2018).

- Legalwise Seminar, “Smart Contracts”: Automated Self-Executing Contracts(Wellington, 2017).

- Future of Law Summit, Technology as an Improvement of the Profession(Auckland, 2016).

- Legalwise Seminar, Developments in Regulatory Price Setting Mechanisms(Wellington, 2016).

- Institute of IT Professionals conference paper, Competition Law and New Technologies (Tauranga, 2013).

- The State and Monopolies: New Zealand's Experience, (2010) 12 Otago Law Review 227.

- Judicial Review in a Commercial Context, [2009] NZLJ 14.

- Co-author, Equity and Trusts in New Zealand (chapters on Equitable Estoppel, Breach of Confidence and Equitable Tracing).

- Co-author, Restitution in Laws of New Zealand.