Harriet Quinlan

Work highlights

• Advising trustees in responding to applications for removal and claims brought by beneficiaries in complex trust disputes.
• Advising trustees on responding to beneficiary requests for trust information and navigating competing disclosure obligations.
• Advising beneficiaries on trustee proposals to distribute trust assets and wind up trusts, including protecting beneficiaries’ interests in contentious trust restructures.
• Negotiating successful settlements in a number of relationship property disputes, achieving commercial and practical outcomes while avoiding prolonged litigation.
• Obtaining Court orders appointing a receiver to a trust and assisting in the negotiated resolution of a long-running dispute concerning multi-million dollar trust assets in Clarkson v Clarkson [2020] NZHC 3382.
• Obtaining urgent injunctive relief for New Zealand’s largest credit union in proceedings against another credit union.
• Acting for an international software development company to obtain Court orders securing the release of funds held by a global banking institution in NF Global Ltd v Sky Capital Management Ltd [2020] NZHC 2196.
• Acting for companies in successfully setting aside statutory demands and resisting applications to set aside demands in insolvency proceedings, including in Condor International Ltd v Steelhaus 2014 Ltd [2019] NZHC 296.
• Advising liquidators, receivers and creditors throughout complex liquidation and receivership processes, including in Vlasic v Zelande Ltd [2019] NZHC 2152.
• Appearing in the Court of Appeal:
  
  • Successfully representing the mother of a disabled son in a significant human rights judicial review case against the Crown in Attorney-General v Spencer [2015] NZCA 143.
  • Acting for a large construction company in a contractual payment dispute in CJ Parker Construction Ltd (in liq) v Ketan [2017] NZCA 3.
  • Acting for receivers in defending a challenge to their appointment in Fatupaito v Harris [2018] NZCA 497.
  • Acting for a liquidator pursuing recovery of a voidable transaction in Time3 Global Ltd v Norrie (as liquidator of Pakiri Investments Ltd (in liq)) [2016] NZCA 400.