Our partners lead a dedicated team of advocates and specialists in commercial & property law.

Grant Burston - Partner

Contact
Phone: 0064 4 471 6310
Fax: 0064 4 471 2065
gjb@lcc.co.nz

Qualifications
BA LLB (Hons) - Victoria University of Wellington

Admitted
Admitted to the bar in 1982
Partner, Luke Cunningham & Clere since 1987

Profile
Grant is the Crown Solicitor for Wellington. His Warrant covers the greater Wellington region, extending north to Otaki in the Kapiti Coast and Masterton in the Wairarapa.

Grant undertakes work in the criminal prosecution and civil litigation areas. He has led prosecution teams in many major criminal cases in the High Court, and many major regulatory prosecutions in the District Court. Grant has also significant experience in civil litigation in the High Court including judicial review and sale of liquor cases.

Grant is the convenor of the New Zealand Law Society Evidence Law Reform Committee. Grant is the author of the title “Criminal Procedure” in Butterworths The Laws of New Zealand. He is a member of the editorial board of the New Zealand Loose Leaf Edition “Cross on Evidence” and an updating author of Brookers Fisheries Law.

Mark O'Donoghue - Partner

Contact
Phone: 0064 4 471 6319
Fax: 0064 4 471 2065
mod@lcc.co.nz

Qualifications
LLB (Hons) - Victoria University of Wellington

Admitted
Admitted to the bar in 1981
Partner, Luke Cunningham & Clere since 1996

Profile
Mark undertakes criminal and departmental prosecutions and has appeared for the Crown in numerous significant appeals. He has a background in civil litigation and appears before the Courts in a wide range of matters.

Mark has lectured courses at the Royal New Zealand Police College on many occasions has been a member of the Wellington Law Society’s Court Committees.

Kate Feltham - Partner

Contact
Phone: 0064 4 471 5720
Fax: 0064 4 471 2065
pkf@lcc.co.nz

Qualifications
BA (Hons) LLB – University of Otago

Admitted
Admitted to the bar in 1991
Partner, Luke Cunningham & Clere since 2004

Profile
Kate undertakes substantial departmental prosecutions and a wide variety of criminal prosecutions. Kate has appeared for the Crown before the Courts, specialist Tribunals and disciplinary boards.

Kate provides advice to government departments and agencies and also has extensive experience in Child, Youth & Family Services matters.

Tom Gilbert - Partner

Contact
Phone: 0064 4 471 5721
Fax: 0064 4 471 2065
tjg@lcc.co.nz

Qualifications
BCOM LLB (Hons) – University of Otago

Admitted
Admitted to the bar in 1999
Partner, Luke Cunningham & Clere since 2006

Profile
Tom undertakes work in the criminal prosecution, civil litigation and employment law areas. He has been lead counsel in numerous cases in the District and High Courts appearing for both the Crown and private clients.

Tom has also appeared in the specialist employment forums and is the co-author of A guide to the Employment Relations Act. He has conducted training programmes on employment law and prosecuting both here and overseas. Tom is also a member of the Wellington District Law Society’s Courts and Tribunals Committee.

Dale La Hood - Partner

Contact
Phone: 0064 4 471 5727
Fax: 0064 4 471 2065
dlh@lcc.co.nz

Qualifications
LLB, Victoria University of Wellington

Admitted
Admitted to the bar in 1995
Partner, Luke Cunningham & Clere since 2007

Profile
Dale has extensive experience in all aspects of civil litigation and has worked for civil litigation firms in London where he undertook professional indemnity and public law cases. Dale has also been involved in a number of notable Bill of Rights cases at all levels including the Supreme Court.

Dale recently presented a paper to the New Zealand Law Society's Criminal Law Symposium regarding civil claims against the Crown arising from the criminal justice system. Dale currently undertakes criminal litigation for the Crown and continues to undertake public law, Bill of Rights and general civil litigation cases for both the Crown and private clients.

Andrew Scott-Howman - Partner

Contact
Phone: 0064 4 473 2160
Fax: 0064 4 471 2065
ash@lcc.co.nz

Qualifications
LLB, BCA, Victoria University of Wellington

Admitted
1992 New Zealand
1998 New South Wales, Australia

Profile
Andrew advises on all aspects of dismissal, redundancy, workplace safety, strikes and lockouts.

In 2007, Andrew was appointed by the New Zealand Law Society to its Employment Law Committee, and in 2008 chaired the Society’s biennial conference. He is the joint author of Workplace Stress in New Zealand, and is the employment law columnist for The Independent newspaper.

He is also New Zealand’s representative to the Fédération Internationale Des Associations de Footballeurs Professionels (the International Representative organisation for professional soccer players).

PLC Which Lawyer? list Andrew as a Recommended Individual in employment in its latest rankings, released in October 2008. Chambers Global 2008 describes Andrew was being “well known for his work before courts and tribunals”, and as having “extensive litigation experience ... including trial advocacy in a wide range of commercial and workplace disputes”.