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AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Civil and Commercial Litigation, Public and Administrative Law, Criminal Law
Kate is an experienced advocate with a practice across civil, criminal and public law.
Kate began her career at Meredith Connell, where she prosecuted numerous judge-alone and jury trials. She also conducted regulatory prosecutions for a range of agencies, including the Commerce Commission. She is comfortable dealing with factually complex matters and with leading and cross-examining witnesses.
Since becoming a barrister in 2021, Kate has built a broad practice across the fields of civil, criminal and public litigation, appearing in the courts at all levels. She has been instructed as Counsel Assisting the Coroner in several inquests and has acted for the Crown in the Waitangi Tribunal. Kate has appeared in appeals and judicial reviews in the senior courts, acted as sole counsel in the High Court, and most recently appeared as junior counsel in the Supreme Court in a dispute over Māori post-governance settlement entities.
- 2021–present: barrister at Stout Street Chambers
- 2018–2021: solicitor and Crown prosecutor at Meredith Connell
- 2018: Bachelor of Law with Honours and Bachelor of Arts, University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau
- Kate Fitzgibbon and Joanne Lee Preliminary Reflections on the Sexual Violence Legislation Act 2021 [2022] NZWLJ 21
- Fiona Culliney and Kate Fitzgibbon The Sexual Violence Pilot Court [2019] NZWLJ 48