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Website. www.lawsociety.org.nz. The New Zealand Law Society (Māori: Te Kāhui Ture o Aotearoa) is the parent body for barristers and solicitors in New Zealand. It was established in 1869, and regulates all lawyers practising in New Zealand. Membership of the society is voluntary, although any person wishing to practice law in New Zealand must ...
The Council of Legal Education was established by section 2 of the New Zealand University Amendment Act 1930 (amending and deemed part of the New Zealand University Act 1908). [17] There is a New Zealand Law Students Association, [18] which has published a journal called Wagon Mound, [19] and holds an annual national mooting competition. [20]
Died. 29 December 2014. (2014-12-29) (aged 84) Alma mater. University of Canterbury (LLB) University of Michigan (LLM & SJD) Sir Ivor Lloyd Morgan Richardson PCNZM PC QC (24 May 1930 – 29 December 2014) was an eminent New Zealand and Commonwealth jurist and legal writer and a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
The law of New Zealand uses the English common law system, inherited from being a part of the British Empire. There are several sources of law, the primary ones being acts enacted by the New Zealand Parliament and case law made by decisions of the courts of New Zealand. At a more fundamental level, the law of New Zealand is based on three ...
Tompkins was president of the Hamilton District Law Society between 1969 and 1971, and active in the New Zealand Law Society, serving as a council member from 1969 to 1971 and vice president from 1979 to 1981. He was also a LAWASIA council member between 1979 and 1981, and was chair of the Council of Legal Education from 1992 to 1998. [1]
The judiciary of New Zealand is responsible for the system of courts that interprets and applies the laws of New Zealand.It has four primary functions: to provide a mechanism for dispute resolution; to deliver authoritative rulings on the meaning and application of legislation; to develop case law; and to uphold the rule of law, personal liberty and human rights. [1]
He was councillor and then chairman of the Council of Legal Education. He was president of the Wellington District Law Society in 1961. He was vice president of the New Zealand Law Society and was a Wellington representative for the national body. He represented the World Peace through Law conferences in Athens in 1963 and in Washington DC in 1965.
Denis Pain. Denis Blake Pain (7 January 1936 – 6 July 2019) was a New Zealand jurist and sports administrator. He was a judge of the District Court from 1970 to 1990, subsequently serving as deputy director of the Serious Fraud Office. In the 1980s and 1990s, he was chef d'équipe of the New Zealand eventing team at four world championships ...