Tamara acts for, and provides advice to, a number of central and local government clients, Crown entities and professional disciplinary bodies. She has experience assisting with regulatory prosecutions, disciplinary proceedings, civil enforcement and pecuniary penalty proceedings, and class action proceedings.
Tamara holds the designation of Intermediate Crown Prosecutor, assigned by the Crown Law Office. She prosecutes serious crime on behalf of the Crown including Class A drug offending, sexual offending and serious violence. Tamara regularly conducts trials as sole counsel in the District Court, and has appeared as second counsel in trials in the High Court. She has also conducted appeals in the High Court and appeared in the Court of Appeal.
Prior to joining the firm in 2022, Tamara was a Judge’s Clerk at the Court of Appeal and worked at another Crown solicitor firm, doing criminal prosecution, and commercial and public litigation.
Recent and notable work:
Second counsel in a three month High Court homicide trial with multiple defendants, R v Weston [2024] NZHC 2733, and second counsel in a High Court homicide trial involving insanity issues: R v Reddington [2024] NZHC 3689.
Acting for the New Zealand Police in appeals from decisions of the Firearms Safety Authority.
Providing advice on, and acting for, government clients in fraud prosecutions, including acting as counsel for the Ministry of Social Development in wage subsidy prosecutions.
Assisting in the first pecuniary penalty proceeding brought by the Takeovers Panel: Takeovers Panel v New Image Group Ltd [2022] NZHC 1504.