On Wednesday 3 May 2023, the New Zealand Asian Lawyers hosted a wānanga on “Tikanga and the Law” with the support of the Ngā Ahorangi Motuhake o te Ture / New Zealand Bar Association, at Buddle Findlay. There was an overwhelming attendance at the event, with 80 people attending in-person and 360 online. The reason for the wānanga…
DetailsOn 19 April 2023, The NZ Asian Lawyers Litigators Committee, led by Augustine Choi, hosted a lively panel discussion and social function at Bankside Chambers. Our panelists, Bankside barristers Christine Meechan KC, Julie Ding and Sam Lowery, and moderator Augustine Choi, shared their thoughts on the language, cultural and knowledge barriers often faced by Asian clients and parties when…
DetailsOn 13 April 2023, NZ Asian Lawyers Young Lawyer’s Committee, led by Danielle Cooper, had its first social networking event at Dr Rudis. The event was a great success, with a diverse range of Asian lawyers from many different practice areas joining to share drinks, nibbles and make new connections. We would like to thank Pam Davidson…
DetailsOn Thursday night, 9 February 2023, the Asian Women Lawyers Committee of NZ Asian Lawyers led by Karen Ngan held its inaugural Women in Law panel discussion at Simpson Grierson. Mai Chen (President of NZ Asian Lawyers welcomed the attendees to the first event in her life where Asian women lawyers were the overwhelming majority and…
DetailsOn 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…
DetailsOn 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]…
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