by Jenni McManus | May 17, 2024 | Administrative / Public, Treaty / Māori
The Law Association and its members have over the past two weeks been grappling with the issues of censorship and free speech, sparked by an opinion piece by Gary Judd KC published in LawNews on 3 May and a further commentary penned by David Harvey, a retired District...
by Kingi Snelgar | May 17, 2024 | Treaty / Māori
Ten days after LawNews published an opinion piece by Gary Judd KC about the study of tikanga Māori being made compulsory for law students, Auckland barrister Kingi Snelgar has issued a rebuttal and complained about the publication of Judd KC’s commentary. LawNews has...
by Samira Taghavi | May 17, 2024 | Administrative / Public
I have a question for lawyers of my age or older: in your student days, could you have imagined your law school dean writing that an eminent legal commentator, with years of senior court experience, was an “old racist dinosaur” who should “go die quietly in the...
by Tai Ahu | May 17, 2024 | Treaty / Māori
We write this open letter to our members in response to the recent complaint made by Gary Judd KC. The role of Te Hunga Rōia Māori o Aotearoa is, amongst other things, to “promote fellowship and mutual support amongst its members” and to “promote the education of our...
by Chris Trotter | May 17, 2024 | Administrative / Public
It’s a very German word, created by butting two words together. “Schaltung”, referring to electronic circuitry; and “gleich”, denoting sameness, combine to create “gleichschaltung”. In electrical engineering, gleichschaltung is what you get when all switches have been...
