Barrister
Juliet
Philpott
Juliet has more than 15 years’ experience as a lawyer in Wellington, London, and Melbourne.
Juliet advises clients on administrative and regulatory law matters, including on the scope and nature of their powers and duties and on the correct interpretation of their specific statutory or regulatory obligations. She is adept at identifying and solving problems for her clients, and has spent the majority of her career advising public entities on lawful and effective decision-making.
She has advised clients in a range of sectors, including education, health, local government, emergency services and professional regulatory. Her clients have included government ministries and departments, crown entities and other statutory bodies, local councils, and entities regulated by government.
Privacy & Information Law Specialist
Juliet has particular expertise in privacy and information law issues. She assists clients to understand their legal obligations in relation to the information they collect, store, use, and disclose, as well as to manage requests under the Privacy Act, and the Official Information Act or LGOIMA. She helps clients to draft and review privacy policies, as well as to identify risks and to manage these effectively. She also advises on privacy issues that may arise in the context of new initiatives.
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Memberships/Governance
- Member New Zealand Law Society’s Human Rights and Privacy Committee
- Member New Zealand Bar Association’s Employment Law and Privacy Committee
- Member Wellington District Licensing Committee
- Associate Member Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand
- Trustee of Turnovsky Endowment Trust
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Qualifications
- BA/LLB Hons (First Class) from Victoria University of Wellington
- LLM (First Class) from the University of Cambridge
Practice areas
- Public and Administrative law
- Regulatory
- Local Government
- Workplace investigations
- Privacy and Information Law
- Dispute Resolution
Recent experience
- Assisting a regulatory client with response to a significant regulatory review report.
- Assisting with a review into regulatory fitness for practice for a crown entity.
- Undertaking or assisting with protected disclosure investigations.
- Assisting clients with their involvement with two Royal Commissions, including preparing witness statements, briefing witnesses, and advising on legal issues.
- Assisting with an inquiry into the regulatory performance of a crown entity, including reviewing material, assisting with interviews, and drafting report.
- Secondments within the in-house legal teams of two New Zealand Crown entities, and a territorial authority.
- Conducting privacy maturity assessments and advising on privacy risk for a range of clients.
- Assisting clients to prepare for the introduction of the Privacy Act 2020.
- Acting as legal advisor to District Licensing Committees.
- Assisting with judicial review proceedings including preparing pleadings and advising on ancillary issues arising.
- Advising a multi-agency group on privacy issues relating to the establishment of cross-agency information-flows both domestically and internationally.
- Advising a multi-agency representative group on issues arising as the result of the gathering of information about individuals online, including from social media.
- Advising regulatory clients in relation to disciplinary matters including analysing the sufficiency of evidence and preparing charges, witness briefs and submissions.