Amelia Cina

Senior Solicitor, Russell McVeagh

Amelia is a Senior Solicitor in the Russell McVeagh litigation team and has acted for clients on a broad range of public and commercial disputes. Amelia has also taught courses on legal writing and mooting as a Teaching Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington. Prior to commencing private practice Amelia clerked for Justice Cooke at the New Zealand High Court and worked as a research assistant to Professor Campbell McLachlan KC providing research support for his book on systematic integration in international law and Dicey Morris and Collins on the Conflict of Laws.

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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