Jeremy grew up in Warkworth, a small country town one hour drive out of Auckland. He graduated from Auckland University with an LLB in 1983 and his first job was with Criminal Lawyer Chris Reid where he defended clients on traffic, police & crown cases. He later joined a big Auckland law firm Macalister-Mazengarb where he practised Criminal and Medical Law defending many Doctors. In 1990 Jeremy joined the Serious Fraud Office and rose to Senior Prosecutor. Many of the cases were high profile including, the Fortex scandal. In 1995 Jeremy set up his own practice, defending people again. His specialist area being Serious Fraud, including the Wilkinson Case which resulted in a rewrite of the Crimes Act 1998. In 2007 he defended two people accused of terrorism in Operation 8, known as the Urewera case. In 2003 Jeremy defended a female Ukranian client on false passport charges but she was in fact a s*x trafficking victim. He won the case but she was prosecuted by the government two more times. In total he defended and won three times ultimately resulting in an acquittal. Later in 2013 Jeremy himself was in court against the IRD and was bankrupted. This of course made life difficult but he was allowed to keep practising as a lawyer and has built up his practise again. Undeterred he is presently defending a client against extradition sought by the United States in the Dot Com Case. He feels his experience as a bankrupt has given him a new insight to the plight of his clients and wishes to keep helping and defending people from all walks of life without judgement.
