JARED ORMSBY
Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Pikiao

Jared regularly litigates all forms of commercial disputes. He is a recognised leader in complex trust and fiduciary litigation acting in some of New Zealand’s most well known disputes including Kain v Hutton, Chirnside v Faye, Re Burnett Mt Cook Station Chartiable Trust, Great Christchurch Buildings Trust v CPT (the Christchurch Cathedral), Pangani Properties v Lloyd & Nevill. Jared is the convenor of the Canterbury-Westland Trust Committee and has been a presenter of member of the organising committee for the NZLS Trusts Conference since 2011. He was an adviser to the Minister of Justice on the Trust Reference Group for the new Trusts Act 2019. Jared also well known for the high profile public law litigation he has undertaken including acting on leading judicial review cases in relation to the Invercargill CBD, electricity regulation, emergency planning legislation for earthquake recovery, the land use recovery plan, Maori legal issues, and the Christchurch Cathedral. In 2018 Jared founded Plymouth Chambers as a new chambers in Christchurch for leading barristers in the region. Jared was previously the National Managing Partner of Wynn Williams and its senior litigation partner. He has been recognised on multiple occasions in Chambers and Partners Asia Pacific Directory as a leader in his field where he was characterised by peers as "a very experienced, pragmatic, and wise litigation practitioner”. Jared was the 2017 New Zealand Law Awards' Crowe Horwath Managing Partner of the Year.

• Educated at the University of Canterbury

• Admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand 2003

• Partner, Wynn Williams – 2007 to 2018

• Registered Trust and Estate Practitioner – 2009 - 2020

• Executive Chair / National Managing Partner / Board Member, Wynn Williams – 2009 to 2018

• Founder of Plymouth Chambers – 2018

• Member of the New Zealand Law Society Culture Change Taskforce

• New Zealand Bar Association

• Convenor/Member of the Trusts Committee of the Canterbury-Westland Branch of the New Zealand Law Society - 2015 - Present

• Regional Chair Asia Pacific of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society

• Member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners

• Investigator appointed by New Zealand Law Society under the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006

• Institute of Chartered Accountants New Zealand, Trust Special Interest Group and Insovency Special Interest Group

• Institute of Directors

• Former Member of the Disciplinary Committee of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners

• Former Member and Deputy Convenor of the Litigation Committee of the Canterbury-Westland Branch of the New Zealand Law Society 2008 – 2014

• Thompson v Invercargill City Council [2020] NZHC 174

• Pharmazen v Anagenix [2020] NZCA; [2019] NZHC 1520

• Sutherland v Lane [2020] NZHC 721

• Bethell (Arrow Liquidators) v Papanui Properties Limited [2019] NZHC 3169

• Carson v Lane [2019] NZHC 3259

• Watherston v PGW Rural Capital Ltd [2019] NZHC 22

• Pangani Properties Limited v Lloyd [2019] NZCA 314, [2018] NZHC 1982

• City Financial Investment Company (New Zealand) Ltd v Transpower New Zealand Ltd [2018] NZHC 1488

• Canterbury Regional Council v King House Removals Southland Ltd [2018] NZHC 873

• Purau Moorings Association Inc v Canterbury Regional Council [2018] NZHC 462

• Talbot v Talbot [2017] NZCA 507

• Butterfield v Public Trust [2017] NZCA 367

• Re Burnett Mount Cook Station Charitable Trust [2017] NZHC 169

• Meltzer v Allied Concrete [2016] 1 NZLR 141 (SC)

• Greig v Hutchison [2016] NZCA 479, [2015] NZHC 3067

• Powell v Powell [2015] NZCA 547

• Public Trust v Silverfern Vineyards Ltd [2016] NZHC 1002, [2015] NZHC 3067

• Ngāti Te Ata v New Zealand Steel Mining Ltd [2015] NZCA 547, [2016] NZAR 38 and NZ Steel Ltd v Butcher [2014[ NZHC 1552

• OM Hardware Ltd v Body Corporate 303662 (2015) 15 NZCPR 921

• Independent Fisheries Ltd v Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery [2013] 2 NZLR 397

• Church Property Trustees v Attorney-General [2013] 2 NZLR 428

• Great Christchurch Buildings Trust v Church Property Trustees [2013] 3 NZLR 597, [2013] 2 NZLR 230

• Independent Fisheries Ltd v Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery [2012] NZAR 785

• Ruscoe v Canterbury Policy Holders [2012] 2 NZLR 438; (2011) 9 NZBLC 103,483

• Kain v Hutton [2008] 3 NZLR 589

• Chirnside v Fay [2007] 1 NZLR 433

• Ngati Apa Ki Te Waipounamu Trust v Attorney General of New Zealand and others [2007] 2 NZLR 80

• Contributing author Equity and Trusts in New Zealand, 3rd edn (awaiting publishing), Butler (ed.), Thomson Reuters

• Nightmare on Trusts Street: Trustee Costs, Trusts Conference (2019) NZLS

• Best Practice for the Lawyer in Family Conflict, Elder Law Conference (2019) NZLS

• Trust Law Reform, Trusts Conference (2017) NZLS Seminar

• Certainty at last for Creditors and Liquidators, (2015) Wynn Williams Article, (with C Webber and J-L Day)

• Trusts for Company and Commercial Lawyers (2015) NZLS Seminar (with J Moses)

• Clayton v Clayton: Trust Busting (2015)

• Termination of Trusts, Trusts Conference (2013) NZLS

• What’s So Special About a Letter of Wishes (2013), ADLS Cradle to Grave Conference (with J Kenny)

• Powers of Appointment and Powers of Advancement: What every lawyer needs to know (2011) Trusts Conference (NZLS with J Kenny)

• Lending to Trusts (with J Kenny), 2010

• Contributing author Equity and Trusts in New Zealand, Butler (ed), Brookers 2009

• Trustees Indemnity: Litigation Costs [2008] NZLJ 468

• "Whither Dishonest Assistance?" [2004] NZLR 454