Emergency Orders

Join us for this practical webinar focused on mastering Emergency Orders for those high-pressure situations when you need to act fast.

Knowing the best way to get the result you want, and how to do this correctly through the court, is an important skill to have before you need it.

In this webinar Justice Fitzgerald will provide practical guidance to ensure that without notice applications such as freezing orders and interim injunctions are properly made and supported by high quality documentation. She will share her perspective on what is helpful and unhelpful for the Judge.

Lauren Lindsay will provide her insights as a commercial barrister and arbitration specialist, addressing emergency relief from an arbitral tribunal and interim measures more generally in support of arbitration.

The session will be chaired by Sarah Wroe. This webinar will equip you to protect your clients’ interests in urgent situations.

Speakers

Her Honour Justice Fitzgerald graduated with an LLB (Senior Scholar) from Victoria University of Wellington in 1992 and was admitted to the New Zealand bar in the same year.

Justice Fitzgerald joined the Wellington office of Russell McVeagh as a solicitor in 1992, before relocating to London in 1994, where she was admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 1999.  She worked as a Senior Solicitor at Clifford Chance until 1997, and then at Debevoise & Plimpton from 1998 to 2001.

In 2001 Justice Fitzgerald returned to Russell McVeagh in Wellington. In 2003 she became a Senior Associate, Dispute Resolution at Sydney firm, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, and was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 2003.

She returned to Auckland in 2006, and joined the partnership of Russell McVeagh in 2007, specialising in complex commercial dispute resolution, including regulatory investigations and proceedings, tax litigation, and arbitration law and practice.

Justice Fitzgerald was appointed a Judge of the High Court in 2016.  From February 2020 to August 2023, she was the Auckland Criminal List Judge, with oversight of all criminal jury trials in the Auckland High Court. She was appointed the Chief Judge of the High Court of New Zealand in December 2023. 

Lauren Lindsay has a wide-ranging disputes practice acting as counsel in complex commercial litigation and international arbitration. Lauren is comfortable and experienced in appearing as lead or junior counsel in any dispute resolution forum, be it in court, in arbitration or in mediation, both domestically and internationally.  Lauren also sits as an arbitrator with experience in arbitrations under the LCIA, SIAC, ICC and HKIAC Rules.  Lauren is admitted in New Zealand and England & Wales. She is also a fellow of CIArb, a fellow of ACICA, and a fellow of AMINZ. Lauren is currently a NZ member of the ICC Commission on ADR and Arbitration (a three-year term).

Sarah Wroe (Chair) is a barrister at Eldon Chambers, Auckland, and a member of the Bar Association’s Education committee. She was called to the Bar  of England & Wales in 1998 where she practised as a civil and criminal barrister. After moving to New Zealand she was admitted to the Bar here in 2011 and joined the independent Bar in 2017. Sarah has a broad practice in civil and commercial litigation with a particular focus on matters touching on property law.