About Gareth Abdinor, Employment Lawyer
Employment & Workplace Law Expert
Gareth Abdinor is an employment and workplace law expert, providing organisations and workers advice on all aspects of the employment/contracting relationship, from recruitment, remuneration and performance to re-structuring, discipline and dismissal.
Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Gareth has a solid background in litigation and dispute resolution, which complements his strong interest in business and finding commercially sensible solutions.
Privacy & Information Law
Gareth also provides specialist advice in relation to privacy & information law issues, including compliance, breaches, access, cyberbullying and social media. He has delivered privacy training for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, co-founded the South Island Privacy Network and has presented at numerous conferences in New Zealand and Australia on privacy and cyberlaw issues.
Education & Healthcare
Gareth has extensive experience in the Education and Healthcare sectors, having acted for schools, educators, District Health Boards, medical practices and medical professionals in relation to dispute resolution, privacy and employment matters.
Leadership, Governance & Media
Gareth regularly presents at conferences and in the media on legal issues. From 2019 to 2024 Gareth co-hosted NewsTalk ZB’s “Law Corner” every fortnight, answering questions from listeners on employment and privacy topics. From 2025, Gareth appears monthly as an employment law expert on NewsTalk ZB’s “Ask the Expert” segment.
Gareth is active in leadership of the legal profession and was a long-standing member of the NZLS Canterbury/Westland Branch Employment Law Committee, a member of the New Zealand Law Society Canterbury/Westland Branch Council and was one of the founding members of the Legal Culture Committee.
Gareth was on the Advisory Board for a Private Training Establishment (PTE) for several years and is a current Board Member of the Trust Board (Compliance and Finance, Audit & Risk committees) of a prestigious independent school.
Additional Qualifications
Gareth is a LEADR trained mediator, AMINZ trained and experienced workplace investigator and qualified practitioner of NLP and Neuro-Semantics.
Gareth also has a Masters degree in Political Science and a Sandan (3rd Degree Black Belt) in Aikido.