Justin Fredrickson

Justin Fredrickson has around twenty years of experience advising and representing clients in commercial and civil disputes in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. He has worked for leading firms in both countries and completed a yearlong secondment as a senior lawyer at Lloyds Bank. His clients include individuals, small and large businesses, banks, insurers, sports organisations, and public agencies.

Clients value Justin’s ability to analyse and solve problems quickly, explain legal advice clearly, develop cost effective strategies, and keep them updated throughout their matter.

Justin acts in a wide range of complex matters including contract and property disputes, construction disputes, multi party claims, judicial review, investigations, and banking and finance matters including lending, enforcement, and derivatives. He also advises on insurance coverage, reinsurance, and insolvency, and has experience in sports related disputes and defending regulatory prosecutions.

He has appeared as lead counsel in New Zealand courts and has acted as an instructing solicitor in England and Wales. His international experience includes work before the Royal Courts of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, and the London Court of International Arbitration. Justin is experienced in mediation and other forms of dispute resolution and is skilled at reaching practical, cost effective settlements.

Justin holds an LLB and a BCA in Marketing from Victoria University of Wellington and is admitted in both New Zealand and England and Wales. He has tutored public law at Victoria University’s Law Faculty, studied in Brazil, and previously edited for the New Zealand Law Reports.

Outside of work, Justin has a lifelong passion for sport. He has represented New Zealand in junior football teams, trained with a professional academy in Brazil, played senior premier cricket, fenced competitively in London, and completed a marathon in close to three hours. He also enjoys history and travel, having visited more than sixty countries. Justin speaks Portuguese and Spanish, has a working knowledge of French, continues to learn te reo Māori, and occasionally attends Toastmasters. He was one of the first lawyers to be admitted in New Zealand of Caribbean heritage.

Notable matters:

• ANZ National Bank Ltd v Smith (2009) 10 NZCPR 898; 2009 BCL 724, [2009] NZLJ 339, (2010) 14 BCB 6 and referred to in Burrows, Finn and Todd on the Law of Contract in New Zealand (Undue Influence in banking)

• Mehta v Grimshaw & Co CIV-2007-404-4855, 10 March 2008 (High Court) and referred to in the Laws of New Zealand (Civil Procedure: District Court)

• R (ARC Time Freehold Income) v Secretary of State For Housing, Communities And Local Government [2025] EWHC 2751 (Admin) (legal challenge to the change in leasehold property law in England and Wales).