Practice Focus

Dr John Turner is available to accept instructions in all areas of civil and commercial litigation. However his principal areas of specialist legal interest are as follows:

  • Banking and financial services litigation
  • Trust and trustee disputes
  • General and marine construction disputes and arbitrations
  • Company law and corporate finance litigation issues
  • Insurance litigation including professional negligence claims
  • Administrative law procedures in the commercial context
  • Competition and trade practices law
  • Conflict of laws issues
  • Litigation concerning firearms and Arms Act procedures
  • Civil and commercial litigation before the courts of Fiji, Papua New Guinea and the Cook Islands, including corporate and tax issues
  • Middle East legal issues including the application of sharia law principles to commercial situations, property and construction arbitrations and litigation in the DIFC Courts in Dubai

Dr John Turner

  • LLB(Hons), MJur(Dist.) (Auck); LLM(Dal); PhD(London)
  • Holder of current law practising certificates as a barrister in New Zealand and as a legal practitioner in Fiji