Kellie Arthur
Date of Admission
Sep 30, 2011
Qualifications
LLB (Hons); BA/BCA (Hons)
Chambers
Kate Sheppard Chambers; FortyEight Shortland Barristers
Iwi
Ngāti Toarangatira (Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington)
Kellie (Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Pākehā) is a barrister based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. She has a broad practice, acting in a range of civil and commercial disputes. Her practice encompasses contract and tort claims, trusts and estates litigation, property disputes (including relationship property disputes), shareholder disputes and coronial inquests. She has appeared in the Court of Appeal, High Court, District Court, Coronial Court and in domestic and international arbitrations. Kellie is a civil legal aid provider.
Before joining the Independent Bar in 2018, Kellie was part of the litigation team at Chapman Tripp, where she advised and acted for clients in a range of complex commercial disputes. Prior to her legal career, Kellie worked in New Zealand and internationally providing strategic advice to large, corporate clients.
Kellie is a Council Member and Vice-President (Auckland) of the New Zealand Bar Association Ngā Ahorangi Motuhake o te Ture, and sits on the Association’s Management Committee. Kellie is an Adjunct Instructor in Civil Litigation at the College of Law New Zealand and a faculty member of the NZLS CLE Litigation Skills Programme. Kellie regularly chairs or speaks on panels for the New Zealand Bar Association Ngā Ahorangi Motuhake o te Ture, the Auckland Women Lawyers’ Association and Te Hunga Rōia Māori o Aotearoa.
LOCATION
Auckland
AREAS OF PRACTICE
Civil, Contracts, Equity and/or Trusts, Estates and/or Wills, Torts