Nadia Murray-Ragg

Barrister, Bankside Chambers

Nadia is an employed barrister at Bankside Chambers based in Auckland, New Zealand. Her practice focuses on commercial litigation, arbitration (domestic and international) and public law claims. In New Zealand, she has appeared in the Supreme Court, High Court, District Court and arbitral tribunals. She has represented clients in the Building Disputes Tribunal and at mediation.

Before joining Bankside Chambers, Nadia worked in legal research as a Judge’s Clerk in the High Court at Wellington for two years. While at university, Nadia worked for the law school as a researcher and as an editor of the Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, New Zealand Women’s Law Journal, and Public Interest Law Journal of New Zealand.

Nadia has published in the New Zealand Women’s Law Journal and is an Associate Editor there. She has presented on evidence admissibility laws at the Law and Gender: Beyond Patriarchy symposium in February 2022 and on the intersection of construction adjudication and insolvency at a meeting of the Society of Construction Law (NZ) in July 2025.

Contributed to

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Arbitration in New Zealand—an introduction

Practice Notes

This Practice Note gives details of the relevant arbitration legislation in New Zealand, highlighting key features of that legislation and its international reach. The Practice Note also sets out the requirements of a valid arbitration agreement under New Zealand law as well as challenging awards before the New Zealand courts.

Arbitration

Arbitration in New Zealand—recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards

Practice Notes

This Practice Note sets out the rules for enforcing a domestic and foreign arbitral award in New Zealand, particularly those made under the New York Convention. It also sets out the grounds on which enforcement may be resisted under the New York Convention.

Arbitration

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

Interim remedies in support of arbitration in New Zealand

Practice Notes

This Practice Note considers the availability of interim and emergency remedies in support of arbitration in New Zealand under New Zealand law, specifically under articles 9 and 17–17M of Schedule 1 to the New Zealand Arbitration Act 1996. It considers the availability of interim remedies from the tribunal and the New Zealand court. It also briefly considers emergency arbitration under New Zealand law.

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

Practice Area

Arbitration

Panel

Contributing Author

Qualified Year

2023

Experience

High Court of New Zealand (Judge’s Clerk) (January 2023 - January 2025)
Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Law (Research Assistant) (January 2022 - December 2023)
Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Law (Summer Research Scholar) (November 2021 - February 2022)