Our Team

Daniel is a senior associate in our civil and commercial litigation team, and a member of the firm’s insurance law team.

Daniel’s civil practice includes insolvency, receivership, debt recovery, consumer law, negligence, insurance and judicial review.  In particular:

• He regularly provides advice to both insurers and insureds on insurance policy response, with particular experience with leaky building claims and earthquake claims.
• He has successfully brought and defended actions in both the District and High Court involving negligence, consumer protection law, contractual disputes and trust and family protection.
• He has been involved in the management of numerous matters on the Christchurch earthquake list, including attendance at High Court conferences;

Daniel also regularly contributes to legal updates and articles about developments in insurance law and negligence.

Daniel was heavily involved in university competitions during his final year of study, and is involved annually in the University mooting competition as a Judge.  He has also previously returned to university as a tutor at the law school.

Daniel commenced work at Young Hunter in April 2008 after graduating LLB(Hons) from the University of Canterbury.  Daniel was made a senior associate in 2017.