Joshua Leckie > Lane Neave > Queenstown, New Zealand > Lawyer Profile

Lane Neave
Level 1, 2 Memorial Street
Queenstown 9300
New Zealand

Work Department

Resource Management / Environmental

Position

Joshua is a resource management and environmental lawyer, with extensive experience across a range of projects and transactions. He leads Lane Neave’s national resource management team. Before joining Lane Neave he worked at a major New Zealand law firm.

He regularly advises on the development of nationally significant projects under the Resource Management Act and associated legal regimes across New Zealand. He and his experienced team also provide a wide range of associated project development and commercial property related advice, including on overseas investments in New Zealand involving sensitive land.

Joshua’s clients include major property development and investment companies, iwi, and businesses with significant land use requirements. He acts on many of New Zealand’s most contentious resource management projects, which are summarised here.

Joshua is well connected to experienced result driven expert witnesses in New Zealand’s resource management industry and has a commercially focused approach. He brings a unique skill set to assist clients.

Joshua is ranked as a leading Environment & Resource Management Lawyer in the 2022 Doyle’s Guide for New Zealand.

Lawyer Rankings

New Zealand > Projects and resources management (including environment)

Lane Neave houses ‘a leading South Island resource management practice’, well-regarded for its ability to provide strategic advice and representation on complex projects. The team advises on mandates ranging from large-scale commercial, industrial and residential property development, to infrastructure projects and cultural, coastal, conservation and tourism issues. The team is spearheaded by Joshua Leckie who has extensive experience across a range of projects and resource management processes, regularly advising on the development of large-scale projects.