General civil and criminal litigation practice, with full rights of audience in New Zealand as well as Australia (admitted as barrister in New Zealand and Victoria). Specialist in:• Maritime law• Civil and commercial litigation• International law• Public law• Employment law• Human rights• Military law• Constitutional and Treaty law

NZDF Project Lead, Fiji Military Justice Review

Armed Forces Law Reform Bill - First Reading: Tim Barnett MP:"Very briefly, I want to place on record that I consider the Armed Forces Law Reform Bill to be an excellent piece of work. It has been 5 years in the making, and, reading through it this afternoon, I can see that it is very carefully structured, in terms of its presentation to members of Parliament, and covers its impact and the consultation undertaken. We as a House should recognise it as a model of its type. The work of the select committee and the Minister, Phil Goff, leading up to this point reflects that.On occasion we in this Parliament can agree on matters and work together to best effect. I place on record the contribution made by Commander Chris Griggs, the military justice review project officer, who has been working within the New Zealand Defence Force for a considerable period to produce this work. He is highly professional. This bill was obviously a labour of love as well as a labour of excellence. I trust that over the next few months the select committee will do good work on the legislation."In Committee: Dianne Yates MP (select committee chair):"I want to thank Brigadier Riordan and Lieutenant Commander Griggs for the work that has been done not only on the bill but on the review. The review itself is a doorstopper, an enormous piece of work that was done over a long period of time. Their names do not appear on this legislation, and that is a pity because of the work that has gone into it. A tremendous amount of interviewing, study, and legal review has gone into not only the review but also the legislation itself. I also want to thank them for the way they worked with the select committee. I found them extremely receptive to suggestions made by members of the committee, and very thorough in the way they followed up those suggestions, came back with changes, and worked with the committee on producing the legislation, with changes, that we have before the Committee today."

Ministerial appointment under the Veterans' Support Act 2014. The function of the Appeal Board is to determine appeals against review decisions made under Part 7 of the Act.