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Catherine Stewart has over 30 years’ experience as a litigation and employment lawyer. She joined the independent bar as a barrister sole in 2012, having held senior roles in employment law prior to then including at partnership level.
Catherine has successfully argued many high profiles cases in the Employment Relations Authority, Employment Court and Court of Appeal, including acting for Dr Siouxsie Wiles in the landmark Employment Court case against the University of Auckland last year, as an intervener for TLANZ in the MW v Spiga case, acting for the employee in the well-known redundancy case of Stormont v Peddle Thorp, and acting for Mr Gilbert in the landmark case on stress in the workplace Gilbert v Department of Corrections.
Catherine holds a Bachelor of Laws with Honours and a Bachelor of Arts in languages. She is a regular presenter at conferences on topical employment law issues. She was voted by her clients to be Employment Lawyer of the Year at the 2013 NZ Law Awards, and was also voted runner up to Barrister of the Year. She is the Convenor of the Law Association’s Employment Law Committee and a member of the Employment and Privacy Committee for the NZ Bar Association.