Stephen Quinn is a litigation partner who specialises in environmental, infrastructure, building and local government litigation.
Stephen has been at DLA Piper for over 30 years. He enjoys working with the firm’s clients and the exceptional team at DLA Piper to achieve great outcomes.
Stephen specialises in a wide variety of statutory and decision-making processes, including:
Resource management and planning: With involvement in everything from resource consent issues, designations, plan drafting and interpretation, enforcement, mediation, Council hearings, Court proceedings, Board of Inquiry hearings, direct referral proceedings.
Building: With involvement in all aspects of regulatory advice, enforcement, determination applications and appeals, and civil litigation arising from building related claims.
General civil litigation: Involvement in many types of civil proceedings, particularly defending local authorities.
Other local government regulatory area: Including decision making under the LGA, governance issues, bylaws and LGOIMA.