On 17 February 2020, NZ Asian Lawyers and the New Zealand Law Society’s Auckland branch co-hosted a seminar on judges’ perspectives on representing culturally, linguistically and ethnically diverse (CALD) parties in court.
Judges of the Court of Appeal and High Court gave visibility of the issues and challenges raised by CALD parties and practical suggestions as to how these issues may be addressed to help those parties achieve equal access to justice before the Courts.
The participants were: Justices Gordon, Muir, Palmer, Venning, Courtney, Powell and Fitzgerald.
This session followed the launch of the Superdiversity Institute for Law, Policy and Business’s report “Culturally, Ethnically and Linguistically Diverse Parties in the Courts: A Chinese Case Study” (“the Report”) on 18 November 2019 – supported by the Ministry of Justice, the New Zealand Law Foundation, and the Michael and Suzanne Borrin Foundation.
The writeup of this seminar can be found in LawTalk 938.
