Doug Tennent Lecturer Te Piringa Faculty of Law

Doug Tennent

Areas of Expertise
  • Immigration and Refugee Law
  • Accident Compensation
  • Corporate Goverance.
Academic Qualifications
  • BA (Massey) LLB,LLM(Waikato) LLM (Melbourne)
  • Admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand
Professional Organisation
  • Te Piringa Faculty of Law University of Waikato

Worked in Papua New Guinea for 12 years- 7 and a half years as a volunteer in the court and prison system and for five years as a lecturer in the Law faculty of the University of PNG.

Taught from 2003- 2009 at Faculty of Law University of Waikato- areas Company Law, Equity, Torts (ACC) and Immigration and Refugee Law. Worked as a Legal Advisor in the Solomon Islands from 2009-2011.

Returned to Faculty of Law in the second part of 2011.

Professional Contact

dougtennent@xtra.co.nz

Speaking Engagements

Present papers regularly at the Lexis nexis annual Immigration Conference and to seminars organised by the New Zealand Association of Migration and Investment.