REGIONAL CHAMBERS

Phone: 021 631 218
Email: mark@regionalchambers.co.nz

Mark's principal areas of practice:

  • Commercial litigation
  • Employment disputes
  • Health and Safety (including prosecutions)
  • Workplace Investigations
  • Contract disputes, including construction
  • Negligence issues
  • Trust | Will disputes
  • Regulatory prosecutions
  • Medico-legal issues
  • Coronial inquests
  • Mediation as Mediator
  • Arbitrations as Arbitrator
  • Maritime Law

Mark Beech LLB

Mark has extensive trial experience at all Court levels.

He has expertise in commercial litigation involving contractual disputes, negligence claims and trust litigation. Mark also has a significant employment practice with an employer focus. He advises on all aspects of employment law, including disciplinary processes, personal grievances, restructuring business sales and health and safety (including prosecutions). Mark also conducts independent workplace investigations on behalf of employers and acts as defence counsel in regulatory prosecutions. In addition to his trial work, he regularly acts as both a mediator and arbitrator in complex commercial and trust disputes.

Prior to becoming a barrister, Mark was a partner at two large regionally based law firms where he headed their Litigation teams. He also previously worked for two national law firms in Auckland and as a lawyer in Papua New Guinea. Mark has spent many years on various committees of the Law Society and served on the board of the Waikato/ Bay of Plenty District Law Society. Mark was the New Zealand Chairman of LEADR (NZ), the forerunner to the Resolution Institute, an Australasian multi-discipline organisation for practitioners who specialise in dispute resolutions. He was also the former Deputy Chairman of the Resolution Institute, Mark is also an accredited mediator and is a mediator for the New Zealand Domain Name Dispute Resolution Service.

Mark brings a commercial and strategic approach to disputes and is valued for his ability to avoid and efficiently resolve issues for his clients.

Qualifications

  • LLB, University of Auckland 1987
  • Admitted to the Bar in New Zealand 1988
  • AAMINZ
  • Acc.M.LEADR/ PRI Mediator
  • Bond University/ LEADR Advanced Certificate of Mediation
  • Advanced training through Stratus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University Law School
  • Advanced negotiation training through the Pound Institute Harvard Law School
  • Member of Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand
  • Affiliate Human Resources Institute of New Zealand - AHRINZ
  • Member of the Institute of Directors

Community Activity

  • Resolution Institute – Former Deputy Chairperson
  • Citizen Advice Bureau