Fletcher has over 22 years’ experience as an advocate in regulatory/criminal and public law litigation. He has extensive court experience at every level having conducted many jury and judge alone trials, appeals, tribunal and inquiry proceedings.
His expertise spans a wide range of contentious enforcement cases including: fraud; financial market; fair trading; and other serious financial crime; aviation; workplace health and safety; resource management; maritime; fisheries; and animal welfare; as well as regularly conducting serious general criminal law cases.
He represents and provides advice to clients who are subject to investigation by diverse Government agencies including the Serious Fraud Office, the Commerce Commission, the Financial Markets Authority, and Worksafe. He also accepts instructions to act in civil proceedings, particularly statutory actions, judicial review proceedings, professional disciplinary proceedings, and coronial inquests.
Fletcher qualified as a Barrister and Solicitor in New Zealand in 1995. He was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Pitcairn Islands in 2003. He is presently a Senior Magistrate of the Pitcairn Islands.
He commenced his career in London with Ashurst Morris Crisp. When he returned to New Zealand he worked as a Crown Prosecutor with Davys Burton, in Rotorua, and then Meredith Connell, Auckland, where he became an associate and senior prosecutor.
He was appointed Crown Solicitor for Rotorua in 2006. From that time to the end of 2013, he was responsible for the conduct of all Crown prosecutions in the Western Bay of Plenty. He joined the independent bar in 2014.
He was appointed King‘s Counsel in 2021.
