Kennedy-Grant and Weatherall on Construction Law: The Underlying Law – Contracts, Torts and Legislation

Michael Weatherall is a Partner and co-head of Simpson Grierson's construction law team and has over 25 years' experience specialising in all aspects of construction law. Prior to qualifying as a lawyer Michael was a structural engineer.  He is co-author of Kennedy-Grant and Weatherall on Construction Law and the author of the Construction chapter in Laws of New Zealand. Michael was a member of the New Zealand Standards committees that produced NZS3910:2003 and the NZS3910:2013 based suite of contracts. He has been the lead legal advisor on many of the largest construction and infrastructure projects implemented in New Zealand in recent times and also specialises in construction dispute resolution. He is a past President of the New Zealand Society of Construction Law.

Tómas Kennedy-Grant QC is the author of the authoritative work Construction Law in New Zealand, 2^nd edition; co-author of Kennedy-Grant and Weatherall on Construction Law; and has written numerous papers on construction law and dispute resolution. In practice for 52 years and qualified to practise in both New Zealand and England and Wales, Mr Kennedy-Grant was a Master of the High Court of New Zealand from 1992 to 2002. He has practised as an arbitrator, adjudicator and mediator and became a Queen's Counsel in 2005.