Stephanie’s civil litigation practice encompasses commercial, trusts, insurance and property disputes as well as judicial review. She also defends regulatory prosecutions and professional disciplinary complaints and acts as counsel assisting the coroner, and for interested parties, in the coronial jurisdiction. Stephanie has extensive trial and appellate experience, including acting as trial counsel, on pre-trial appeals and appeals against conviction in complex criminal cases and on appointment by the court as amicus curiae. She was one of the founding members of Plymouth Chambers in 2019, having moved to the Independent Bar in 2018 after thirteen years as a litigation partner first at Anderson Lloyd and then at Duncan Cotterill. Stephanie is a co-author of McGechan on Procedure, a member of the Rules Committee as a New Zealand Law Society representative of the profession and a member of the New Zealand Law Society’s External Advisory Group on diversity, equity and inclusion.Stephanie is committed to the development of the Independent Bar and the profession through education, mentoring and coaching. As a faculty member of the New Zealand Law Society’s Litigation Skills Programme and a member of the New Zealand Bar Association’s Education Committee, she assists regularly with litigation training, seminars and courses.Stephanie was appointed a King’s Counsel in 2022.
