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Publications
Ethel Benjamin Commemorative Address
8th Annual NZLF Ethel Benjamin Commemorative Address
5th Apr, 2004
Hon Justice Susan Glazebrook: "Looking Outwards" - Speech delivered in Dunedin on 5 April 2004.
Justice Glazebrook is a judge of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand.
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7th Annual NZLF Ethel Benjamin Commemorative Address
29th Apr, 2003
The Rt Hon. Beverley McLachlin, PC, Chief Justice of Canada: "Building a Bridge to Equality: A duty for Lawyers" - Speech delivered in Dunedin on 29 April 2003.
Chief Justice McLachlin was appointed to the County Court of Vancouver in 1981 and then to the Supreme Court of British Columbia. In 1985 she was appointed to the British Columbia Court of Appeal and in 1988 was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia. She was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada on March 30, 1989 and was made Chief Justice of Canada on January 7, 2000, the first woman to hold this position.
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6th Annual NZLF Ethel Benjamin Commemorative Address
1st Aug, 2002
Hon Margaret Wilson, Speaker of the House of Representatives: Speech delivered in Dunedin on 1 August 2002.
Margaret Wilson entered Parliament as a list MP in 1999 and immediately gained election to Cabinet. Her portfolios included those of Attorney-General and Minister of Labour. She remained a list MP after the 2002 elections, serving as Attorney-General, Minister of Commerce, Minister in Charge of Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations, Associate Minister for Courts, and Associate Minister of Justice. Before entering Parliament Ms Wilson was Professor of Law and Dean at Waikato University. From 1984 to 1987, she was president of the Labour Party, and from 1989-1990 was chief political advisor to the Prime Minister. She has also served on the Law Commission, and was appointed as a director of the Reserve Bank.
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5th Annual NZLF Ethel Benjamin Commemorative Address
4th Sep, 2001
Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas, DBE: Speech delivered in Dunedin on 4 September 2001.
Dame Judith is a New Zealand-born lawyer and academic.
She graduated LLM from the University of Otago, where she lectured before moving to the UK as a lecturer in law at King's College, University of London where she set up and became Director of the Anglo French Law Degree (Sorbonne), the first joint degree in Europe.
She served as Provost of King's College, Cambridge from 2003-2006, and has been closely involved in the running of the City of London since 1986. She was awarded the DBE in 2002 "for services to the City of London".
She was the first woman to become not only Chairman of the Royal Opera House, but also from 1996-2003, as Chairman of the Policy and Resources Committee, she was effectively leader of the City of London Corporation.
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4th Annual NZLF Ethel Benjamin Commemorative Address
18th May, 2000
The Rt. Hon. Dame Sian Elias, GNZM, QC, Chief Justice of New Zealand: “Diversity and Law”
Speech delivered at Dunedin on 18 May 2000.
Dame Sian was appointed Chief Justice in May 1999, the first woman to hold this position. She is the most senior member of the New Zealand's judiciary and the presiding judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. She served as a Law Commissioner from 1984 to 1988. Dame Sian is also known for her work in relation to various Treaty-related cases. She was made a Queen's Counsel in 1988, and in 1990, she was awarded a commemorative medal in recognition of her services. Dame Sian is the Patron of the New Zealand Law Foundation.
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3rd Annual NZLF Ethel Benjamin Commemorative Address
8th Jul, 1999
Georgina Te Heuheu QSO: 'Maori Women and the Law' - Speech delivered in Dunedin on 8 July 1999. Georgina Te Heuheu is a Maori MP in the New Zealand National Party.
She was a Minister for Courts and Women's Affairs in the last National Government and the first Maori woman to gain a law degree.
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2nd Annual NZLF Ethel Benjamin Commemorative Address
8th May, 1998
Jennifer Mary Shipley, DCNZM, was the Prime Minister of New Zealand from December 1997 to December 1999, the first woman to hold this office and the first and to date only woman to serve as leader of the National Party. Speech delivered in Dunedin on ? 1998. Unfortunately no formal speech notes exist for this Address.
1st Annual NZLF Ethel Benjamin Commemorative Address
8th May, 1997
The Hon. Dame Silvia Cartwright DBE: 'The Trouble She Caused' - Speech delivered in Dunedin on 8 May 1997.
Dame Silvia, PCNZM, DBE, QSO was New Zealand's second female Governor-General. In 1989 she became the first female Chief District Court Judge, and in 1993 she was the first woman to be appointed to the High Court. Dame Silvia has been appointed to sit as one of two international judges in the Trial Chamber of the Cambodia Tribunal.
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Child Witnesses in the New Zealand Criminal Courts: a review of practice and implications for policy
22nd Apr, 2010
Children becoming distressed under examination, language barriers and excessive delays are some of the issues raised in a Law Foundation-funded report about child witnesses released on 22 april 2010.
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HUMAN GENOME PROJECT
24th Jul, 2008
The New Zealand Law Foundation-sponsored ‘Human Genome Research Project’ is a multi-disciplinary three-year project that will analyse whether and, if so, how and to what extent, human genome-based technologies should be regulated in New Zealand.
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