David Dickinson - LLB MA Your personal barrister in Auckland.

Specialising in defence of serious crime, David will work closely with you to develop the best strategy and solution to get you the best results, whatever your legal problem.

Introducing David Dickinson

Auckland barrister, member of the New Zealand Law Society, New Zealand Bar Association and Criminal Bar Association.

David specialises in the defence of serious crime. Whatever your legal problem, he will work closely with you to develop the best strategy and solution to get you the best results.

Our Areas of Practice

Our specialty is the defence of serious crime. With our extensive experience, we also offer the following other services.

Drugs Cases

The Misuse of Drugs Act enforces prohibition. Prohibition gives an enormous, unregulated, and tax free market to people who import, manufacture, possess, supply, and sell drugs. I guess that was what parliament, in its infinite wisdom, intended…

Sex Cases

Some say there are “rape myths” – it could be there are also “rape trial myths”. In sex cases, early representation at the police station can help dispel both…

Serious Violence

I have significant experience in defending murder, manslaughter, and wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm charges…

Bail Applications

At the outset, bail is king. There is always time to plan how to deal with the charges – but where a defendant spends that time is a separate issue…

Discharges Without Conviction

Sometimes a guilty plea does not lead to a criminal conviction. I have successfully pursued countless opposed over 106 applications.…

Representation at the Police Station

Clients often tell me that the police describe it as “part of the process” when they contact them out of the blue, asking for them to come down to the police station for a chat. They just want to get the other side of the story. Yeah, sure…

Traffic

I have extensive experience in defending drink driving and driving while disqualified charges and applying for limited licences or work licences…

Civil / Employment

I take instructions in the civil jurisdiction, often in employment law. I was the Judge’s Clerk at the Employment Court for two and a half years in the late 2000s and early 2010s…

Proceeds of Crime

Our proceeds of crime laws work on a “shoot first, ask questions later” basis. You do not even need to be charged with a crime or under investigation for the Commissioner of Police to apply to restrain property or assets hoping to have them forfeited in the future…

Access to Experts

I use private investigators, forensic computer experts, psychologists, and other stakeholders with whom I have worked with for many years to achieve the best possible results for my clients…

Stunned by the immediacy with which life as they know it is taken away — from jobs to savings to access to their children to friends — and by how powerless they really are when caught up in the machinery of the state, I’ve never had a client sit in my office and clap their hands together as they celebrate all the constitutional rights they’ve suddenly inherited as an accused. These rights are not reserved just for an accused. It is when someone is charged with a crime and becomes an accused, however, that they are activated. Every citizen has the same rights… the accused do not have ‘all the rights.’ We all have them, all the time. The difference is that the accused may be required to assert them.

Marie Henein, Nothing But the Truth, pp179-180