Polly Pope

Partner and Chair, Russell McVeagh

Polly is one of New Zealand's leading commercial disputes lawyers. Her arbitration practice spans work as counsel and as arbitrator.

She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) and of the Arbitrator's and Mediator's Institute of New Zealand, a recipient of the Sir Ronald Davison Award for excellence in arbitral award writing, and a member of AMINZ's Arbitration Appeals Tribunal.

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Challenging jurisdiction and anti-suit provisions in New Zealand

Practice Notes

This Practice Note considers challenging arbitral jurisdiction and anti-suit measures in New Zealand. It addresses staying court proceedings in favour of arbitration, the power to grant anti-suit injunctions and challenging decisions by arbitral tribunals on jurisdiction.

Arbitration

State immunity and arbitration in New Zealand

Practice Notes

This Practice Note considers issues of state immunity and arbitration in New Zealand. The Practice Note summarises the common law approach of New Zealand’s courts to the doctrine of sovereign immunity; the making of a protest to jurisdiction by a state on the grounds of sovereign immunity and the effect of such a protest on recognition and enforcement actions against states subject to international awards before the courts of New Zealand, in particular ICSID awards.

Arbitration