Event Summary: Marie Dyhrberg KC Webinar

On 17 November 2022, the NZ Asian Lawyers Criminal Law Committee led by Karun Lakshman held a webinar with Marie Dyhrberg KC, on how to recognise or identify and deal with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Clients (CALD) to ensure that they and their case is fully understood and properly dealt with and therefore their right to access to justice and to competent legal representation…

Event Summary: Justice Glazebrook – “Tikanga and Culture in the Supreme Court”

On 8 November 2022, at an event hosted jointly by NZAL and Russell McVeagh, Justice Susan Glazebrook, Supreme Court judge and President of the International Association of Women Judges, gave an address entitled “Tikanga and Culture in the Supreme Court”. Justice Glazebrook discussed the recent Supreme Court decisions of Deng v Zheng [2022] NZSC 76 and Ellis v R [2022]…