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

Lane Neave
LEVEL 8, 48 SHORTLAND STREET
VERO CENTRE
AUCKLAND CENTRAL 1010
New Zealand
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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)

Focusing on resource management and environment matters, the team at Lane Neave covers the gamut of support, from strategic advice to litigation representation. The firm is well-versed in supporting clients in resource management related to coal and gold mining projects. It also appears before the Environment Court and the High Court for its clients, with additional experience in ADR processes. Led by mining project advisor Joshua Leckie, the team contains Sarah Anderton, who is experienced in designations, resource consenting, plan reviews, and appeals.