Brian was admitted as a barrister and solicitor in 1988 after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Canterbury.

Brian practised as a barrister and solicitor between 1988 and 2004. In 2004 Brian became a barrister sole and is a founding member of Vulcan Building Chambers.

Brian has wide-ranging experience in civil and commercial court proceedings in trial and appellate courts, as well as in construction adjudication, arbitration and mediation.

His practice has a primary focus on construction law, property and contract law relating to the sale of land, leases, unit titles and bodies corporate, torts such as negligence and nuisance, and insurance matters.

Brian was a member of the Auckland District Law Society property disputes sub-committee for a number of years.

Brian is available for appointment as an adjudicator in building disputes under the Construction Contracts Act.

Ph: +64 9 300 1255
Email: brian@rooney.co.nz

Dr Tony Ellis is one of New Zealand’s leading Human Rights lawyers.
Tony’s particular interests including human rights generally, Criminal trials and appeals, Judicial reviews, Habeas Corpus, Extradition, Constitutional Law, Intellectual Disability and Mental Health, and Preventive Detention cases as well as cases involving recusal (disqualification) of Judges, and civil claims generally against the Government.

He has predominately a public law and criminal practice. Tony takes criminal cases and judicial reviews, and compensation covering prisoners rights including deaths or other abuses in custody, and other breaches of human rights. He is the only New Zealand barrister regularly having international human rights law cases before the United Nations Human Rights Committee (“UNHRC”).

He is the only New Zealand lawyer ever to have won any cases before the UNHRC. In 2014 he will lodge his first case before the UN Committee Against Torture, The UN Working Party against Arbitrary Detention, and a claim from Pitcairn to the UN Special Rapporteur on independence of judges and lawyers, as well as a shadow report to the UN Decolonization Committee.

Tony’s approach to the law is international and comparative he holds law degrees from Australia, England and New Zealand.

For more information please refer to Tony’s website