Paul Beverley Email & Phone Number

I specialise in resource management planning and consenting processes, Māori Law and Treaty Settlement negotiations.I appear in a range of courts and tribunals on RMA and Māori law matters including the Environment Court, Māori Land Court, High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, and Boards of Inquiry and Special Tribunals. My primary areas of RMA practice are large infrastructure designation and consenting processes, and regional and district planning processes.I also have extensive experience collaborating and negotiating with Māori and advising on Māori law issues. I have been a member of the core Crown negotiation and drafting teams on a number of significant Treaty of Waitangi settlements, including in relation to Tuhoe (Te Urewera) and Whanganui River (Te Awa Tupua) both of which involved the novel 'legal personality' approach to natural resources. I was also a member of the core negotiation teams for other Treaty settlements including Waikato River; and settlements in Northland, Auckland and Hauraki, the central North Island and the top of the South Island. My particular specialty is designing and negotiating co-governance, co-management and relationship frameworks between the Crown, local government and Māori. I also work extensively with local authorities and infrastructure developers to negotiate relationship frameworks and agreements with Māori in the development context.Prior to joining Buddle Findlay, I spent four years as a senior lawyer at the Department of Conservation and I continue to advise on the Reserves Act and concession processes. You can contact me on +64 4 462 0406 or email me at paul.beverley@buddlefindlay.com

Listed skills include Litigation, Resource Management, Maori Law, Treaty Of Waitangi, and 2 others.