Arbitrators

Malcolm Birdling

Malcolm Birdling

Position

Malcolm is a leading junior with a litigation practice specialising in all aspects of public, administrative, EU and commercial dispute resolution. Malcolm has with expertise across a broad range of subject areas including commercial judicial review, sanctions, discrimination, public international law, environmental, education, financial regulation, media and advertising, immigration, information law, inquiries, aviation, gaming, pharmaceutical and food regulation and civil liberties and human rights. Malcolm also has considerable experience advising and representing those subject to investigation or enforcement proceedings for suspected breaches of consumer law.

Career

Qualified New Zealand Bar; judge’s clerk (judicial assistant) to Sir Grant Hammond at the New Zealand Court of Appeal; research fellow and tutor in law (specialising in constitutional and European Union law) Keble College, University of Oxford 2008-2011; called 2011, Inner Temple. Publications of note: ‘Competition Law: General Principles in Vaughan and Robertson’s Encyclopaedia of EU Law’ (co-author); ‘Delays and Stays’, New Zealand Law Journal (2009), p253 ff (co-author); ‘Self Incrimination comes to Strasbourg’, International Journal of Evidence & Proof (Vol 12, 2008), p58 ff; ‘Filtering and the International System: A Question of Commitment’ in Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering (MIT Press, 2008) (co-author); ‘Healing the Past or Harming the Future? Large Natural Groupings and the Waitangi Settlement Process’ New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law (Vol 2, No 2 2004), p259 ff; ‘Making Sense of the Foreshore and Seabed’ (Wellington, 2004) (co-author).

Memberships

ALBA (Executive Committee Member); COMBAR.

Education

University of Oxford (2007 BCL (Distinction); 2008 MPhil (Law); 2012 DPhil (Law). Victoria University of Wellington (2003 BA Political Science, LLB (1st))

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