Harriet Quinlan
Senior Lawyer
Special Counsel
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Auckland
Bio
Harriet Quinlan is a commercial litigator with particular experience in trust and estate litigation, relationship property matters, shareholder disputes and contractual disputes. Harriet's specialty is assisting individuals in resolving contentious trust or relationship property matters. She also regularly advises insolvency practitioners and creditors in insolvency matters. Harriet has appeared in the Court of Appeal, regularly appears in the High Court and District Court and acts for clients in multi-million dollar arbitrations and mediations.
Harriet’s clients value her professionalism, technical skills and responsiveness. Harriet applies excellent technical expertise to disputes with a view to achieving practical, efficient outcomes for clients.
Recognition
Qualifications
- LLB, BA – University of Otago
- Admitted in New Zealand – 2012
Work highlights
- Advising trustees in responding to removal applications or claims from beneficiaries.
- Advising trustees on beneficiary requests for information.
- Advising beneficiaries faced with trustee proposals to distribute trust assets or wind up the trust.
- Negotiating settlements for several individuals in relationship property disputes, avoiding prolonged litigation.
- Appearing in the Court of Appeal
- Successfully representing a mother of a disabled son in a human rights judicial review case against the Crown – Attorney-General v Spencer [2015] NZCA 143.
- Acting for a large construction company in a contractual payment dispute – CJ Parker Construction Ltd (in liq) v Ketan [2017] NZCA 3.
- Acting for receivers in a challenge to their appointment – Fatupaito v Harris [2018] NZCA 497.
- Acting for a liquidator pursuing a voidable transaction – Time3 Global Ltd v Norrie (as liquidator of Pakiri Investments Ltd (in liq)) [2016] NZCA 400.
- Obtaining a Court-ordered appointment for a receiver of a trust, successfully negotiating the resolution of a years-long dispute over multi-million dollar trust assets – Clarkson v Clarkson [2020] NZHC 3382.
- Obtaining injunctive orders for New Zealand’s largest credit union against another credit union.
- Acting for an international software development company obtaining orders for release of funds from a global banking company – NF Global Ltd v Sky Capital Management Ltd [2020] NZHC 2196.
- Acting for several companies in successfully setting aside statutory demands, or opposing setting aside applications – Condor International Ltd v Steelhaus 2014 Ltd [2019] NZHC 296.
- Advising liquidators, receivers and creditors through the course of liquidations and receiverships – Vlasic v Zelande Ltd [2019] NZHC 2152.
