Event Summary: Is there a Bamboo ceiling in the profession, academia and the judiciary?

On Monday night, NZ Asian Lawyers was wowed by the amazingly challenging, and insightful viewpoint from Dean of Law at Oxford University Professor Mindy Chen-Wishart’s address at Russell McVeagh, on ‘Is there a Bamboo ceiling in the profession, academia and the judiciary?’ The short answer to this question is: it has gotten better, but there is still a bamboo ceiling.…

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]…