Abigail Pearce
Qualifications
- LLB/BHSc, University of Auckland 2016
- Admitted to the Bar in New Zealand 2017
Abigail is an Associate in Holland Beckett Law’s litigation team, and advises her clients on various family, employment and medicolegal matters.
Abigail is experienced in advising on a wide range of family law issues including:
- Relationship property disputes
- Separation and relationship property agreements
- Contracting out (prenuptial) agreements
- Care of children matters
- Guardianship issues
- Family violence matters
- Dissolution of marriage (divorce)
- Applications under the Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act 1988 (PPPR)
- Estate matters
Abigail also has specialist knowledge of the medicolegal sphere. She has worked closely with healthcare providers such as District Health Boards and private medical facilities, as well as represented individual practitioners and healthcare consumers in various disputes relating to a wide range of issues including:
- Inquiries into professional competence and safety
- Employment law
- Patient complaints
- Compulsory assessment and treatment
- Matters involving registration authorities such as the Medical Council of New Zealand and Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
- Orders for treatment under the Protection of Property and Personal Rights (PPPR) Act
- Workplace health and safety
- Negligence issues
- ACC related matters (treatment injuries, earnings related compensation, suspension of entitlements, Work-Related Gradual Process (WRGP) claims and sensitive claims)
Articles:
An employee focused approach in a recent case involving dress codes
The Employment Relations Authority has recently found that an employer unjustifiably dismissed an employee after they refused to cover their newly dyed blue hair.
Self-identification of sex simplified through the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Bill
A move from a medicalised process to a personal expression of self-identity.
Surrogacy in New Zealand
Surrogacy is an arrangement which enables couples to conceive when they are experiencing hardship conceiving themselves. What many people are not aware of is the legal implications surrounding surrogacy.