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 in general contract disputes, procurement, property and lease disputes, construction disputes for all types of professionals under various contracts, judicial review, banking and finance investigations and disputes for banks and borrowers, insurance (including coverage disputes), and defending regulatory prosecutions. He has recent experience in a significant sporting decision appeal. 

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, played senior premier cricket, and has completed a marathon. He also enjoys history and travel and learning languages (currently Portuguese, Spanish, French, and te reo Māori).

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).