Partner - Auckland
Jacob Barry
Jacob is known as a highly persuasive advocate and has worked on some of the most high-profile regulatory and serious criminal proceedings in recent New Zealand history.
Jacob is known as a highly persuasive advocate and has worked on some of the most high-profile regulatory and serious criminal proceedings in recent New Zealand history.
Expertise
About
Jacob is an experienced litigator with expertise in commercial regulatory cases. He specialises in criminal and civil proceedings under the Fair Trading Act 1986, Commerce Act 1986 and Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 2003.
Jacob is also a Senior Crown Prosecutor, and has prosecuted a wide range of serious crimes in the District and High Courts, including sexual violence and drug offending. He has also conducted appeals on behalf of the Crown in the Court of Appeal.
Jacob has a Masters from Harvard Law School.
Recent Cases & Achievements
Commerce Commission v Kiwipure Ltd (2019) 15 TCLR 487
Acting for the Commerce Commission in the first defended hearing under the unsubstantiated representation provisions of the Fair Trading Act 1986.
Commerce Commission’s Mobile Trader Project
Acting for the Commerce Commission in various proceedings arising out of its mobile trader project, involving the prosecution of various third-tier credit providers for widespread industry non-compliance with New Zealand’s consumer protection statutes.
Commerce Commission v Ace Marketing Ltd [2017] DCR 27; (2016) 14 TCLR 404
Lead counsel for the Commerce Commission in a leading sentencing judgment for disclosure failures under the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 2003.
R v P
Lead counsel in a 2021 High Court trial involving a social media influencer accused of serious sexual and drug-related offending.
R v Momi & Ors [2021] NZHC 1384
Lead counsel in a 2021 High Court trial involving serious violence.
R v Cave & Ors
Leading the criminal proceedings arising from Operation Beverly, a large Police investigation into alleged historic sexual abuse by staff members and other individuals associated with Dilworth School, including in the Court of Appeal (C v R [2021] NZCA 478).
Credentials
Admitted as NZ Barrister and Solicitor, 2012
LLB (First Class Hons)/BCom, University of Canterbury
LLM, Harvard Law School
Articles:
Prosecutors – Should We Trust Them? [2017] NZCLR 154
America's Cup Litigation [2013] NZLJ 306
Off the turf and into the court room: Intervention of the criminal law for assaults on the sports field ANZSLA Commentator Vol. 83, 12 Nov 2011