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Aria Miller
Aria brings over 25 years of extensive experience in handling regulatory investigations and enforcement across a wide range of areas. His expertise lies particularly in competition and consumer law, anti-money laundering (AML), financial crime, and complex commercial and civil disputes. Aria is highly regarded for his ability to navigate challenging regulatory environments and provide clients with clear, effective strategies tailored to their needs.
Areas of practice
Aria has deep expertise in resolving regulatory and corporate misconduct cases, including anti-money laundering, fraud & financial crime, corruption, competition/antitrust, and consumer law. She also works on insurance, privacy, fintech, and transport law matters, and has a specialty practice in motorsport and automotive cases.
Aria has had a role in most Commerce Commission cartel cases over the last 15 years, including shipping, real estate, freight forwarding, waste, air cargo, electrical switchgear, building products, and diagnostic lab-testing markets.
Widely regarded as New Zealand’s most experienced Anti-Money Laundering lawyer, working in this field since 2007, Jack helps reporting entities deal with investigations and complex issues with New Zealand’s three AML/CFT Supervisors, Police Financial Intelligence Unit, and on occasion involving AUSTRAC in Australia or the Cook Islands.
Pro bono roles include serving as chair of the IBA’s AML & Sanctions Experts committee, advisory director to ACAMS Australasia, and NZ law partner to TRACE International.
An independent barrister since 2016, Aria was previously a partner at boutique firm Wilson Harle. Her earlier career was at leading law firms Chapman Tripp, Clyde & Co London, and Phillips Fox.
News & Insights
What is the difference between aiding and abetting?
REGULATORY PROCEEDINGS & LITIGATION
So what is the difference between aiding and abetting? Aiding, as the names suggests, is helping. To abet means to urge on, instigate, or encourage. In any criminal case a defendant can either be charged as a principal or as a party to the offence.
Rae v Commissioner of Police [2023] NZSC 156
CASE SUMMARY
Does the Supreme Court have jurisdiction to hear an appeal from the Court of Appeal’s decision to decline to recall a judgment in a civil proceeding? The Supreme Court addressed this issue, among others, in an “unusual, combined leave-and-appeal hearing”.
