Ben Hamlin Email & Phone Number

Wellington, New Zealand

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

New Zealand

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• I worked for the Commerce Commission as Chief Legal Counsel, Competition, leading a team of experienced lawyers at the Commerce Commission.As Chief Legal Counsel, Competition, I was responsible for ensuring the.
• Over 70 mergers clearances and section 47 investigations, across a wide range of sectors, including four successful section 47 proceedings.
• Seven authorisation applications, including the NZME/Fairfax authorisation that was unsuccessfully challenged in the High Court and Court of Appeal.
• The Commission’s first three market studies, in relation to retail fuel, groceries and building materials.
• A wide range of restrictive trade practice and cartel investigations, resulting in eight successful cartel proceedings.
• The trial and appeal stages Commission’s successful prosecution of the Hamilton Real Estate cartel, concluding with Lodge Real Estate v Commerce Commission [2020] NZSC 25.

New Zealand

I worked for the Commerce Commission as Principal Counsel, Consumer, leading a team of experienced lawyers at the Commerce Commission.As Principal Counsel, Consumer, I was responsible for ensuring the Commission received high quality legal advice, from both internal and external sources, in relation to its CCCFA and Fair Trading Act responsibilities. This.

Auckland, New Zealand

I was an Associate at the Crown Solicitor at Auckland, conducting criminal proceedings, including jury trials, in the District Court and High Court. I advised on and appeared in competition, regulatory and administrative law litigation in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.I appeared as junior counsel in a range of significant Fair Trading.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

As a Senior Legal Counsel in the Legal Services Branch of the Commerce Commission, I assisted in a wide range of investigations and proceedings. I also provided advice on a range of public sector issues including the OIA, Privacy Act, and administrative law obligations.Significant proceedings I was junior counsel on included:* Woolworths & Ors v Commerce.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

As a solicitor in the litigation team of Chapman Tripp, I undertook the role of junior counsel in commercial, regulatory and public law disputes, including discovery, preparing submissions and interlocutory applications and appearances. Significant cases I was involved in included Huata v Prebble, the first substantive appeal to the New Zealand Supreme.

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