Profile

• LLB (Hons) Victoria University of Wellington 1974
• LLM Victoria University of Wellington 1986
• Called to the Bar (N.Z. 1975) 1991

John McLinden is a commercial and common-law practitioner with extensive trial experience. He was described as "outstanding" by The Lawyer in a May 1998 review of the junior Bar. For more detailed information about John's background please visit his website.

PARTICULAR AREAS OF PRACTICE

• Banking & Financial Services
• Commercial
• Defamation
• Human Rights
• Landlord & Tenant
• Matrimonial Finance
• Mortgages
• Professional Negligence
• Property
• Inheritance and Probate
• Insolvency
• Chancery Litigation

RECENT CASES OF NOTE

Vectone Entertainment Holding Ltd v South Entertainment Ltd [2004] 2 BCLC 224
FSL Services Limited v MacDonald Court of Appeal [2001] EWCA Civ 1008 21 June 2001
The Contradictors v Attorney-General, Privy Council [2001] 3 NZLR 301
Macdonald v Taree Holdings Ltd (Transcript: Beverley F Nunnery) 7 December 2000
Grammer v Lane (CA) [2000] 2 All ER 245
Stafford v The State (PC) [1999] 1 WLR 2026
Rooney v Cardona (CA) [1999] 1 FLR 1236, [1999] 1 WLR 1388
Rooney v Das [1999] BPIR 404
Turkiye Is Bankasi As v Bank of China (CA) [1998] 1 Lloyd's Rep 250
Rama v Millar [1996] 1 NZLR 257
Zandfarid v Bank of Credit and Commerce International Sa (in liquidation) and another [1996] 1 WLR 1420
Adams v The Queen (PC) [1995] 1 WLR 52
Simpson v Attorney-General [Baigent's Case] [1994] 3 NZLR 667

PUBLICATIONS

The Role of the Amicus in the American Supreme Court (Fulbright Paper)

Various periodical articles

OTHER INFORMATION

Fulbright Scholar 1991
Commenced full-time practice in the United Kingdom in 1994