Welcome to Tasman Law
Welcome to Tasman Law
Welcome to Tasman Law Ltd.
What We Do
What We Do
Tasman Law specialises in providing legal advice and representation. Key areas of law include:
Environment, planning and resource management
Tasman Law has the expertise to assist you or your business in the following areas:
resource consent applications for all types of activities
plan changes to district or regional plans
submissions on district or regional plans
representation in legal proceedings in the Environment Court including appeals and attendance at mediation
district court representation for prosecutions under the Resource Management Act
enforcement related matters such as abatement notices and enforcement orders
judicial review proceedings.
Local Government
compliance and regulatory prosecutions
general dispute resolution for a wide range of matters
governance and decision making matters
public works
bylaws and regulations
meetings and official information
roading matters
We can also assist you in the following areas:
representation at tribunal hearings
negligence, nuisance and other common law claims
environmental warranties and environmental contract provisions
public and administrative law
policy developments and law reform
We are able to assist in a broad range of dispute resolution matters.
Please feel free to call us to discuss further how we may assist you.
Who We Are
Who We Are
Antoinette Besier – Director
Antoinette provides specialist legal advice and representation in the areas of resource management, local government and criminal law. Antoinette is also accredited as an RMA Commissioner with chair certification.
Antoinette was admitted to the High Court as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court in 2005. She started her legal career in Wellington practising environmental and resource management law with a large national firm. In other positions in Wellington, Antoinette practised in civil litigation, family and criminal law, gaining well rounded experience as an advocate.
Antoinette grew up in the Tasman region leaving the area after finishing secondary school and returning with her family in 2010. Since 2010 Antoinette has provided advice and representation to three local authorities based in Te Tauihu for a wide range of matters as well as undertaking work for private clients.
Antoinette worked as a planner both in local government and in private practice in New Zealand and United Kingdom before qualifying as a lawyer in 2004.
Antoinette is an author for Thomson Reuters Workflow product called “Environment & Resources” and has presented papers at conferences on resource management topics. She is also a published author and her article on the scope of the RMA and private nuisance law won the Robert Orr McGechan Prize.
For more details check out Antoinette’s profile on LinkedIn.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours), Victoria University 2004
Masters of Regional and Resource Management (awarded with Distinction), Otago University 1996
Bachelor of Arts (History and Political Science), Victoria University 1994
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Resource Management Law Association (past chair and conference convenor)
New Zealand Law Society
Trustee of the Snowden’s Bush Trust