Curriculum Vitae
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Samuel Richard Maling
LLB Canterbury University 1969:
Barrister & Solicitor High Court of New Zealand 1969-98;
Barrister (sole) since January 1999.
Chartered Fellow NZ Institute of Directors.
Arbitrators and Mediators Institute of New Zealand (AMINZ)- Mediation and Arbitration Panelist, NZ Dispute Resolution
Centre(NZDRC) and Family Dispute Resolution Centre ( FDR Centre)
Principal Panelist Arbitration and Mediation.
Services Provided
1. Law Professional
- Barrister services
- Mentor and litigation assistance for advocates and litigation solicitors
- Opinion work
3. Mediation and Facilitation
- Experienced Mediator and Facilitator
- Experienced Independent Chair
Current Appointments
- Member – NZ Council of Legal Education 2010
- Member-Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary
- Tribunal 2011- • NZ IOD Presenter and Facilitator
2. Arbitration Appointments:
- Experienced Arbitrator
- Full service provided
4. Company and Corporate Consulting:
- Risk management and legal compliance programmes
- Governance, structure and process (less maybe more in some cases)
- Crisis management
Summary of Experience
Law Professional includes over 40 years litigation including advocate roles with a special interest in:
- Local Authority work (Hospital/Health Board and Port Company)
- Professional Indemnity Insurance claims for Lawyers, Accountants and Engineers
- Property and Succession work including Family property disputes
- Trustee and Trust Company work
- Corporate and Commercial work including Companies ( Special Investigation) work
- Tort and contract cases
- Resource Management Prosecution defence work
- Public Works including High Country Tenure Review
- Judicial Review
- Professional Disciplinary (Accountants, Lawyers and Motor Vehicle Dealers)
Arbitration: Advocate and Award Experience includes:
- Landlord , tenant and Lease work (renewals; options; rent and valuation disputes , cancellation, termination and reinstatement of premises)
- A wide range of contract work including Franchise disputes, interpretation and declaration work, claims for specific performance, damages and injunctions
- Land and property work including licenses and restrictive covenants;
- Legal practice and Accounting practice dissolutions, valuation and goodwill issues
- Family Property disputes
- Building and Construction disputes including liens and Contractors Warranty
- Rural Business and farm partnership work including share valuation; taking of accounts; dissolution; share-milking joint ventures
- Company Governance disputes including share valuations; director differences; pre-emptive rights; minority oppression.
Mediation: Experience includes:
- 15 years Advocate and Mediator roles across a wide range of commercial issues
- 40+ years case settlement work (all courts)
Facilitation: Experience includes:
- Independent Chair work on both private and public issues
- New Zealand Broadcasting Standards – Facilitating and negotiating Codes for Free to Air and pay television; TV and Radio complaints work generally.
Previous appointments include :
- Partner Lane Neave Lawyers, Christchurch, from 1972 to 1998, Executive Chairman 1994 to 1997
- Broadcasting Standards Authority Chair 1997 to 2000. A quasi judicial authority determining complaints and code compliance.
- President Canterbury District Law Society 1994, Council 1985 to 1994
- Vice-President New Zealand Law Society 1995 – 1998 (New Zealand Council and New Zealand Law Society Board Member 1993 – 1998)
- 14 years (1996-2010) NZX Listed companies Pyne Gould Corporation Limited PGG Wrightson (PGW) and NZ Farming Systems ( Uruguay) Ltd ( NZFSU). Board governance and committee work; listing compliance; Bond and capital issues, prospectus work and investor relations
- Chair PGC Group 1999-2010.
- Financial Services (MARAC director and board Chair) Trustee Services ( Perpetual Trust director and Chair) 1996-2010
- Chair Foundation Corporate Trust until 2015- a statutory licensed Supervisor