The Best Accident
Lawyers In Hamilton

Martin Dillon Barrister

Martin has a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Auckland. He has practiced law since 2007 and achieved results in a broad range of cases.

Martin has taken on a range of civil cases, from relatively minor private disputes to large-scale litigation between multinational corporations.

He is now available for appointment as an arbitrator or mediator.

Martin deals with: negligence, professional misconduct, commercial contracts, farming and manufacturing, intellectual property, duties of care, special relationships, trusts, shareholder disputes, insurance claims, foreign judgments, appeals and arbitrations. These types of cases tend to come before the High Court and appellate courts.

Martin’s articles on legal processes and his book Civil Litigation for Non-Lawyers has helped tens of thousands of Kiwis gain access to justice.

Those resources cover several courts and tribunals that Martin no longer deals with: the Employment Relations Authority, Disputes Tribunal, Residential Tenancies Tribunal, and the Motor Vehicle Disputes Tribunal.
Since 2007 Martin Dillon has acted in a broad range of civil cases. He has represented corporations, government departments, public office-holders and private individuals. His articles and textbook on civil litigation have helped thousands of kiwis to better understand legal systems in New Zealand.

Parties involved in a dispute may prefer to avoid litigation and resolve their disputes in other ways. This can be for a variety of reasons including confidentiality, cost and speed. Alternatives to litigation are collectively known as ‘alternative dispute resolution’ or ‘ADR’ for short.

Resolutions can be achieved cheaper and faster than litigation in some cases, and the parties may agree to keep matters confidential. The confidentiality aspect of ADR can be very attractive where parties are reluctant to air their dirty laundry in open public forums such as the courts. ADR can also hold attraction for those hoping to preserve a productive relationship despite a problem. That relationship may be able to be maintained if the problem can be resolved by cooperation, whereas there might be little chance of that once an adversarial court case is filed

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Edwards Sluiters Employment Lawyers

As specialist employment lawyers, we offer our clients expert employment advice and HR support. We ensure that you receive quality representation in your best interest from a highly experienced and supportive employment law team.

Edwards Sluiters – Employment Lawyers acts for both employers and employees. Our focus is to assist our clients in achieving the best possible outcome by providing pragmatic and practical advice in all aspects of employment law.

We pride ourselves on being responsive and accessible to our clients and delivering solutions-based HR advice that is tailored to our clients’ needs. We have offices located in Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, and Hawkes Bay.

We are a highly collaborative team of employment lawyers and can assist clients throughout New Zealand. When you call us, you speak to an employment attorney immediately.

At Edwards Sluiters, we assist both employers and employees with a broad range of employment advice, including: employment agreements, business restructuring and redundancy law, unjustified dismissal, personal grievances, workplace mediations, litigation and dispute resolution, collective bargaining, restraints of trade or breach of confidentiality and human rights issues.

Legal compliance is another core service we offer. There is a wide range of legislation that employers must be aware of, including, but not limited to:

– Employment Relations Act 2000
– Holidays Act 2003
– Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
– Human Rights Act 1993
– Privacy Act 2020
– Accident Compensation Act 2001

Our advantage is our specialisation, and we are familiar with all aspects of employment law. Our team has extensive experience and are employment law specialists. You can be confident that we are ahead of the constantly changing legal landscape, from case law to legislation and policies.

The team at Edwards Sluiters – Employment Lawyers are committed to providing high quality and comprehensive legal advice, with an aim to deliver the best solutions and successful outcomes for our clients.

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Community Law

At Community Law we’re proud of our history and kaupapa. Here’s an insight into who we are and why we work to improve access to justice in Aotearoa

Every Community Law Centre in New Zealand is a member of our national body, Community Law Centres o Aotearoa (CLCA). CLCA aims to:

– Represent the interests of Community Law Centres
– Provide information, networking, advocacy, communication, support and liaison services
– Assist coordination between Community Law Centres
– Facilitate and support centres to maintain high quality services
– Seek resources
– Represent centres as a collective to negotiate funding arrangements with the government
– Affirm and adhere to the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi / the Treaty of Waitangi.

Recognising the Treaty principle of partnership, and because Community Law wants to provide the best service possible for Māori, we have recently changed some of the ways we work.

In 2015, CLCA constituted a new Board structure. Out of 7 board members, 3 dedicated Māori representatives are elected (1 from each of the following categories):

– Community Law Centre governance
– Community Law Centre management
– Independent.
– The Board itself then elects 2 co-chairs, one of whom must come from the 3 Māori elected positions stated above.

Community Law has a Kaitakawaenga/National Māori Coordinator, whose role is to ensure Community Law works more closely and more effectively with Māori communities, including through iwi and other Māori and community organisations.

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Harkness Henry

We believe Respect is something that can only be earned and we hope we have well and truly achieved that, since our early beginnings in 1875. We never take it for granted, continually improving and working hard to maintain our reputation.

We’re renowned for excellence, our attention to detail, and our priority on hiring the very best people. But our focus on client relationships is what really sets us apart – real people, real care, real results.

We offer a comprehensive commercial and private legal service, and our clients keep coming back to us because of that relationship – trust and honesty go a long way. Our aim is to be open, accurate, and one-step-ahead in everything we do, to achieve the very best for you, every time.

Harkness Henry has a proud history of providing excellent relationships and high quality legal advice, since 1875.
When the practices of the late Phillip Harkness and Clive Henry merged in 1945, we took on the firm’s current name. From our early beginnings in Hamilton, we added conveniently located offices in Paeroa (since 1978) and more recently in Cambridge.

Today, Harkness Henry has become one of New Zealand’s best known mid-sized law firms and a great place to build a career in law.

– Former Governor General, Justice Dame Silvia Cartwright, was a partner before her appointment to the bench.

– Her successor in the firm was the Hon. Justice Christine Grice, a judge of the High Court of New Zealand. Christine is a past president and also Executive Director of the New Zealand Law Society.

– Members of our team have consistently been elected to Waikato/Bay of Plenty and New Zealand Law Society committees.
Remarkable women have featured across our proud history and they continue to be a proud feature of our team today. You can find out more about our people here.

We enjoy an exceptional reputation throughout New Zealand, here at Harkness Henry, because of our team’s ability to meet our client’s legal needs with prompt, pragmatic and specialist advice.

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Grayson Clements Lawyer

As trusted advisors to successful people and businesses in good times and bad, we champion our clients’ interests, locally and globally. We are proud to help many of our clients use their success to make the world a better place.
We advise individuals, families, businesses, government, educational and not-for-profit organisations on every aspect of the law, wherever the need arises.

From our offices at Waikato’s Innovation Park in New Zealand, we work with trusted professionals around the world to deliver a seamless international service.

Our clients often present us with complex and varied challenges. Whether that’s a complicated family trust issue, a multinational business transaction, or an emerging threat to their reputation, they need clear thinkers who can advise on the best solutions, fast thinkers when speed is of the essence and agile thinkers who can produce a fresh approach to get the job done. That’s why they choose us.

Our clients value our in-depth knowledge, technical excellence and diversity of disciplines. But what really binds our long-standing relationships with them is our approach: pragmatic, plain speaking and always steadfast in our values, which we hold dear. Values which mean we gain our clients’ trust, always strive to do the right thing, and aim for the best results for them.

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McCaw Lewis Lawyers

At McCaw Lewis our clients are more than business partners. They are whānau. We have served the Waikato community for over 100 years and understand the importance of excellence in legal services and easily-understood legal advice.

We offer a comprehensive suite of legal services with a focus on commercial, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, property, dispute resolution, asset planning, environmental/natural resources, workplace law and Māori land.

Our purpose is to add value to our clients and their communities by enhancing the collective economic, social, cultural, environmental, and spiritual good. Treating clients with compassion and respect, and delivering clear and easily understood legal advice, is paramount to us. We successfully balance Māori tikanga with mainstream values and traditions – because we believe that the good of the people is the greatest law.

Our clients are good people who deserve great support and advice. They are individuals and families, companies and trusts, charities, hapū and iwi. We pride ourselves in caring for our clients, making their lives easier through the long-standing relationships we build with them.

McCaw Lewis is driven by three key values: Whāia te iti kahurangi, Manaakitanga and Kotahitanga.

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Laura Findlater Law

I came to the law a bit later in life; I started University at 25 and I studied law at the University of Waikato. I graduated with First Class Honours and was the first person in my family to go University. I am Scottish and grew up in Scotland – I went to school on a wee island called Arran.

I turned 17 on my way to New Zealand and I have loved living here and feel very lucky to call Hamilton home.

I worked as a family and employment lawyer after I finished my degree, then started a family and began work with ACC when I was ready to return to work after parental leave. I loved the work at ACC; the disputes/review team I worked in was full of people who wanted to do a good job. I saw lots of examples while I worked there of ACC staff members going above and beyond, thinking laterally and using initiative. But those are the good examples, and the ones we rarely read about in the media.

I am married to Andrew, who had a significant injury a number of years ago; it was an odd time for us as a family – me working for ACC, Andrew being a client of ACC with me as his representative. I think that experience gives me a unique and helpful perspective into dealing with ACC at what can be a stressful and worrying time.

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Tompkins Wake

As a leading New Zealand law firm, we believe in the power of collaboration. We know that when our collective knowledge, specialisation and expertise combine in a collaborative environment, we create exceptional outcomes for our clients.

We gain immense satisfaction from working together to develop solutions to the complex and sophisticated challenges our clients present.

Our firm is built around three core pillars: Our people, our place and our law.

The people of Tompkins Wake are what make our firm.

We are different from other law firms in the way we think, work and behave. We value the diversity of our team across the firm which gives us originality in our thinking and approach. We value the fresh perspectives each member of the Tompkins Wake team brings; through diversity, our advice and counsel are enhanced.

Our diversity fuels our culture. Our people’s backgrounds, cultures, experiences and skills drive fresh thinking, new ideas, unique perspectives and insights, allowing us to continually develop new and better solutions.

Tompkins Wake is committed to improving equality and inclusion and proud to be certified with the Rainbow Tick. Read more on this here.

The firm is also a signatory to the the New Zealand Law Society Gender Equality Charter Tūtohinga Ira Tangata Ōrite which will lead us to develop best practices on inclusion and diversity for the benefit of our people and the legal profession.

As a team of experts and specialists, we work together collaboratively ensuring our clients get the best advice and counsel on every matter. We are honest, fair and beyond reproach and we won’t sacrifice our ethical standards for anyone.

At Tompkins Wake, our approach is focused on:

– Providing timely, responsive client-focused advice;
– Developing a deep understanding of your needs;
– Providing pragmatic advice tailored to meet your objectives;
– Developing a trust and confidence relationship with you by investing time to build relationships.
– Working with you to refine your legal services procurement, optimising your spend and maximising efficiency and outcomes we create.
– Being accessible and focused on your needs, regularly traveling to your places of business.
– Proactively updating you on active matters and identifying and prioritising organisational risks from a commercial and political perspective.

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iCLAW

At iCLAW we believe our role is not just about reading and writing the fine print, but about helping you reach your goals.

We come to work every day because we love helping people like you with the things that matter to them – whether it is buying or selling property, protecting your family’s future, managing your business and everything in between.

We are lawyers. But we are also mums, dads, sons and daughters. We are business owners and employees. We are homeowners and renters. And above all else, we are people doing business with people.

We are fuelled by compassion, client results and coffee (usually flat and white, sometimes in a martini).

With deep roots in the New Zealand legal landscape and headquartered in the mighty Waikato, iCLAW Culliney Foley are driven to help businesses and private individuals succeed in their chosen field.

With projects in bio-tech, software, property and the food and beverage industry to name a few, iCLAW support clients by taking the time to dive deep into client projects to fully understand their challenges, strategies and aspirations. This approach enables iCLAW solicitors to craft robust, practical strategies and advice.

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