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The Reviewers
The Hon Sir Ian BarkerThe Hon Sir Ian Barker retired as Senior Judge of the High Court of New Zealand in 1997. In his 21 years on the Bench he served periods as Acting Chief Justice and introduced the Commercial List in Auckland, being Judge-in-Charge from 1987 to 1997. He presided over many significant commercial cases including the long-running Securitibank litigation and major competition cases such Kapuni Gas. For the last 9 years he has practised as a commercial arbitrator and mediator and has conducted arbitrations, both in New Zealand and internationally. He has sat on various Pacific Courts of Appeal and conducted various non-governmental inquiries. Since 1997, he has been Chair of the Banking Ombudsman Commission, which is responsible for the industry-based Banking Ombudsman scheme. He was Chancellor of the University of Auckland from 1991 to 1999 and a Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College, Cambridge University in 2006. He was knighted for services to the law in 1994. See website http://bankside.co.nz. |
Professor Lewis EvansLewis Evans is Professor of Economics in the School of Economics and Finance of Victoria University of Wellington, and formerly Executive Director of the New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His specialisations are the economics of organisations and markets. He has published in and edited international and local academic economics journals. He is a lay member of the New Zealand High Court for matters of commerce and was a member of the Electricity Market Surveillance Committee that was the judicial body for the NZ Electricity Market from 1996-2005. In 1996 he was awarded the NZIER-Qantas economics award, and in 2005 appointed a Distinguished Fellow of the NZ Economics Association. See website http://www.vuw.ac.nz/sef. |