The Best Accident
Lawyers In Tauranga

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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Armstrong Thompson Barrister & Solicitor

Armstrong Thompson Law is experienced in dealing with a range of ACC legal issues. Our skilled team can help you challenge ACC’s decisions in relation to your claim, and to get the support to which you are entitled.

Although we are based in Wellington and Tauranga, we’re able to assist you in solving your ACC issue no matter where in New Zealand or overseas you’re based. Contact us to discuss your ACC case, or see below for more detailed information on what services we offer.

The key feature of New Zealand’s accident compensation scheme is cover. Cover means that ACC recognises your injury, and may mean that you can receive compensation and rehabilitative assistance. ACC can help you with medical costs, work retraining and specialist equipment you need.

If ACC declines to cover your injury or decides not to provide you with entitlements, we can challenge that decision on your behalf.

Once we’ve lodged a challenge against a decision, ACC will appoint an independent reviewer to hear your issue. We’re able to represent you at a review hearing, and we can take care of any preparation required. Over our years in practice, we’ve developed close working relationships with many medical professionals, who are able to provide evidence to assist your case.

Following the review hearing, the reviewer will issue a binding decision. If you’re not satisfied with the result of your review hearing, you have the right to appeal to the District Court, which will issue a new decision. In some cases, you may have the right to appeal a District Court decision to the High Court and then Court of Appeal.

We’re also able to assist you with representation and advice in any other dealings with ACC. If you want representation at general meetings with ACC, or at any medical assessments you are required to attend, we are able to assist you with preparation. Our lawyers are also able to attend meetings and assessments with you, to ensure that your views are heard and that you are treated fairly. We’re also experienced at representing clients in mediation hearings and fraud investigations by ACC.

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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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Burley Castle Hawkins Lawyers

Burley Castle Hawkins Lawyers are a friendly, highly regarded and well established law firm located in Tauranga and Te Puke, Bay of Plenty New Zealand. Our team of qualified solicitors are specialists in a range of services listed below. Our solicitors are supported by skilled legal secretaries, practice managers and administrators to ensure your business, property, litigation and family law matters are dealt with efficiently and effectively.

We provide a full business law service. This starts with the choice in structuring your business ownership. With at least seven different types of commercial structure, we will advise on the one that best suits your business and long term strategy.

If you are looking for clear and cost effective legal advice in relation to a Family Law issue, please call one of our family advisors. If you find yourself in a position where you are unable to pay for important legal services there may be Legal Aid we can help you apply for.

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Holland Beckett

Holland Beckett is a full service law firm based in the Bay of Plenty. Established in 1937, Holland Beckett is a familiar face but is renowned for being dynamic and innovative.

From our offices in Tauranga, Rotorua, Whakatāne and Taupō, our specialist teams work collaboratively to provide top level legal advice with local knowledge and understanding.

Holland Beckett was established in 1937 as WS Holland, and in 1949 William Sydney Holland was joined by Barney Beckett – the duo providing the well-known name of the firm. Over the 85 years since, there have been several moves and changes as the firm grew from strength to strength. In 1986 the firm merged with Maltby Hare and Willoughby, resulting in one of the largest law firms in the Bay at the time. In 2008 the growth necessitated the move to the current Tauranga building on Cameron Road, and from here Holland Beckett – or Hobec – continue to be a legal leader in the region. The firm has expanded with provincial offices, a full-service offering, and ever-growing partnership of exceptional lawyers.

With such a history in the Bay of Plenty, Holland Beckett assist local clients with ease, accessibility and understanding. Our team provide clients with an approach that is professional but focuses on relationships and delivers timely pragmatic, strategic and directed advice. But we are not just a local firm – Holland Beckett’s size and capacity, talented staff and ability to call on inhouse specialist legal teams have led to an esteemed national profile, with a number of national and international clients benefitting from world-class legal advice and expertise from the sunny BOP.

Community is one of our core values at Holland Beckett. We are totally committed, not just as a firm, but as individuals to doing all we can to make the Bay of Plenty a community that is healthy, active and vibrant.

Holland Beckett is also proud of the community support it has received over the firm’s 80 years in business and is equally proud to be an active participant in the local community.

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Harris Tate Lawyers

Harris Tate is a ‘hive’ of activity; busy not only with helping clients through various legal issues, but with our 160,000-strong bees, producing up to 50 kg of our ‘L.L.Bee’ branded honey per year, which is split into 250g jars.

Synergy between beehives and Harris Tate has helped bolster our long-standing commitment to the environment, headlined by the development of our environmentally sustainable offices.

Our clients are at the heart of it all.

At Harris Tate we treat clients as individuals – with the friendliness, respect and attention each deserves – while getting the best results for you.

Personal or business law; family, elder, business, franchise, employment, property and immigration law; or dispute resolution and litigation; we have all bases covered.

We live and breathe law and believe a good day at the office is when we have achieved a great result for you. Always working with your best interests at heart, through communicating and listening to your goals, we clearly navigate you through the legal system.

Or how we like to see it, smart law and intelligent advice.

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Pawson Law

David Pawson is an experienced lawyer based in in the Bay of Plenty, with a background in Criminal law/investigation and Transportation.

During a period of 14 years as a Senior Prosecutor and 6 years as a Defence lawyer, he has dealt with a wide range of matters including Murder, serious violence, drugs, fraud, Coroners Inquests, health and safety prosecutions involving fatalities or serious injuries.

In total, he has over 30 years of experience directly connected to operational roles such as a Forestry advisor with MAF (Indigenous Forestry Unit), New Zealand Customs Service and New Zealand Army, (Royal New Zealand Military Police – Special Investigation Branch).

David has recent appeal experience in the High Court, Court of Appeal, and Court Martial Appeal Court.

Eleanor has a LLB/BA conjoint degree from Auckland University with a background as a law clerk for a Manukau-based criminal lawyer. Eleanor started with Pawson Law in 2021. She is personable, determined and gets great results for our clients. Eleanor’s skills in legal research and drafting provide a solid basis for Court applications such as ‘discharge without conviction’ applications for which she has achieved many fantastic results. Ellie has a number of years as a trial lawyer in both the Judge Alone and Jury jurisdiction, and appears regulary for employment matters at Mediation, the Employment Relations Authority, Employment Court and Court of appeal. Ellie is a fantastic appellant lawyer where your matter needs to ‘go higher’.

Rebecca is the Personal Assistant to David and Ellie and is also a qualified lawyer that attends court. She obtained her law degree in the UK working in Clinical Negligence. She was admitted to the bar and moved to New Zealand in 2014 and has in-court experience.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”

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KM Law

First-home buyers, families, parents, employees, company directors and estate executors – we will provide the same high standard of care for you and your family through all stages of life. KM Law provide upfront fees and dependable, professional legal expertise. Meet us, talk through your needs, and receive sound legal advice and services.

Business set-up, ownership structures, shareholders’ agreements, branding and intellectual property, terms and conditions, employment agreements, sales and purchases, debt recovery, and franchising.

Buying or selling commercial property, advice on legal documents (due diligence), commercial lease agreements, finance or refinancing, commercial subdivision, property development projects, and dispute resolution.

Personalised and cost-effective advice on managing and protecting your assets and succession matters. The implementation and management of trusts, enduring powers of attorney, powers of attorney, wills, and estate administration.

Want to avoid any chance of a contentious separation in the future? Need to protect family assets from your children’s questionable decisions? Have you considered how marriage affects your shareholders? Engage KM Law now.

Anything to do with the sale or purchase of residential property, including pre-auction reports, due diligence (legal document review), finance and refinancing. We can also assist with residential tenancy matters.

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Viv Winiata Barrister

Viv Winiata is an established Barrister specialising in traffic and criminal law, based in Tauranga. Viv completed his law degree at the University of Auckland in 1990 and is a very experienced advocate having acted in a wide range of proceedings throughout the Bay of Plenty area and elsewhere since 1991.

He can offer professional, practical and cost-effective advice on a range of relevant legal issues and will provide you with competent and effective representation.

With 34 years’ experience from a wide variety of criminal and traffic cases, Viv can provide professional, prompt and affordable help with criminal and traffic charges, including a Limited Licence to get you back on the road driving if you have lost your Driver Licence through disqualification or demerits suspension.

Traffic offences – drink or drug driving, dangerous or reckless or careless driving (including causing injury or death), sustained loss of traction or illegal street racing, driving while disqualified or suspended, vehicle impounding or confiscation and sale, truck driving & logbook offences, and Limited Licence (“”Work Licence””) applications.

Drug charges – possession for sale or supply, selling, cultivation, manufacturing, conspiracy.

Violence – assault, injuring, wounding, threatening, breaches of Protection Orders.

Dishonesty & property offences – theft, benefit or insurance fraud, burglary, car conversion, arson, wilful damage.

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