Andrew Easterbrook
LLB, BA - Associate
Andrew studied law and philosophy at Victoria University in Wellington, graduated in 2009, and has been working as a lawyer since then. He is also a director and co-founder of OpenLaw NZ, a free legal data platform.
Andrew's primary work areas are relationship property, information and technology, privacy law, and online bullying cases. He has been a member of the Auckland District Law Society Technology & Law Committee since 2013. He has extensive experience dealing with separations (contentious and non-contentious), estate litigation and civil litigation, and can provide advice about drafting terms and conditions or privacy policies for websites and applications. He regularly receives appointments from the Family Court to act as lawyer for incapacitated persons in applications filed under the Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act 1998, and has experience appearing at all levels of the New Zealand court system up to the Court of Appeal.
Outside the office, Andrew enjoys programming, too many computer games, is a classically-trained pianist, and plays in a local funk/soul band, Farandicus.
Contact Andrew Easterbrook
| Cell | 021 926 292 |
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| andrew.easterbrook@wrmk.co.nz |
Andrew Easterbrook's Specialist Services
Dispute Resolution
Disputes come in lots of different forms so you need different tools to sort them out. Sometimes you can’t avoid going to court. Sometimes you can get a better result with mediation or arbitration.
Trusts
We help clients manage thousands of trusts to make sure that they get the results they want. Talk to us for wise advice based on experience.
Andrew Easterbrook's Blog Posts
Some comments on the Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015 safe harbour
July 30, 2015
The Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015 was enacted on 2 July 2015. Sections 23 to 25 say that if certain steps are followed, online hosts are protected against almost all liability for content hosted on their platform. But there are a few issues that hosts should be aware of.
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Do zombies have a right to privacy?
August 13, 2013
Suppose that after you die someone gets hold of your facebook login, and publishes a book of all your chat transcripts. You’d be pretty pissed if you happened to be a zombie at the time, and somehow got wind of that publication.[1]
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Legal Threats and the Streisand Effect
June 12, 2012
A few days ago, a lawyer hired by the website funnyjunk.com threatened Matthew Inman, the owner of theoatmeal.com. He demanded Matthew take down a blog post and pay $20,000 in damages for (alleged) defamation.
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Google Plus vs Facebook
July 08, 2011
Google Plus is a new social networking service. It’s pretty much the same as Facebook. However, Google’s offering is gaining a lot of kudos for having better privacy (a brief google search shows lots of blogs saying things along those lines). I wanted to examine the differences between the two services in some more detail.
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