Connect with meDaniel practices in the areas of maritime, fisheries, resource management, Treaty of Waitangi and customary rights. He has experience across a wide range of legal and regulatory issues relating to the sea. He enjoys researching and analysing complex legal issues, and then presenting them to clients in a simple and clear manner.
Daniel is a member of the Environmental Law Committee of the New Zealand Law Society, the New Zealand Branch Committee of the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand, and the Nelson-Marlborough Branch Committee of the Resource Management Law Association. Through these roles he is involved in law reform work and professional development. He has published a number of articles in legal journals and presented at various conferences.
- Assisting in litigation on seabed mining in the Supreme Court.
- Acting in cargo disputes.
- Advising on issues relating to the Maritime Transport Act and the Maritime Rules, including assisting clients to obtain exemptions from the Maritime Rules.
- Assisting with the response to maritime incidents and regulatory investigations/prosecutions relating to them.
- Advising on resource management and environmental law issues relating to the sea, including international environmental law.
- Advising on Māori fisheries and Māori aquaculture issues.
- Advising on health and safety and employment law issues.
- Assisting in claims under the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act 2011.
- Assisting clients with submissions or advice on law reform matters.
- Aquaculture
- Marine
- Transport, Trade and Logistics
- Marine and Transport
- Fisheries
- Iwi/Māori organisations
- New Zealand Law Society Environmental Law Committee
- Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand
- Resource Management Law Association