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The LRF's AGM was held on Tuesday 8 May. Hon Justice Robert Chambers spoke at the AGM, and dinner followed the AGM at District Dining, an interesting new restaurant in the Britomart redevelopment. The annual LRF writing awards were announced at the AGM, and the LRF would like to congratulate all winners. Please refer to the writing awards tab above for details.
Please mark your diaries for an important conference on Friday 29 June 2012. Mapping the Common Law: testing the boundaries between contract, tort, restitution and equity
brings together six highly qualified speakers (the Rt Hon Dame Sian
Elias, Justice Gummow of the High Court of Australia; Professors Peter Watts (Auckland University), Michael Lobban (Queen Mary University), Gerald
Postema (University of North Carolina) and Benjamin Zipursky (Fordham University)) to discuss issues related to
classification of the common law.The conference Chair will be Justice Stephen Kos, High Court, Wellington.
If you are a Judge, a practitioner or
an academic with interests in the core subjects (contract, tort,
restitution, equity and land), jurisprudence or law and philosophy.To register, please email
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On Thursday, 23 February 2012, we held a conference at the Stamford Plaza Hotel, Auckland, on Corporate, Financial Markets and Financial Services Regulation. The conference was very successful, and papers are now available to purchase. Please contact
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for further information or to request an invoice.
A further seminar in our Criminal Law series was held on 9 March. The seminar addressed the recent criminal law legislative changes, and speakers included the Hon Judith Collins, Minister of Justice, Grant Illingworth QC, Dr Warren Young, Charles Chauvel, MP Shadow Spokesperson, Simon Eisdell Moore SC, Brendan Horsley (Public Defence Service), David Jones QC, and Matthew Goodwin.The seminar was fully subscribed.
We were also very fortunate to have Professor G Edward (Ted) White from the University of Virginia as our Visiting Scholar for 2012. Professor White gave several addresses in his time with us.
Professor Susan Bright also visited New Zealand from Australia in early April. She delivered a lecture on 4 April, on the topic of green leases.
An afternoon seminar on New Media was held early in May and addressed the draft New Media Issues paper currently being worked on by the Law Commission. There was much interesting and energetic discussion surrounding the proposals in the report.
We have more conferences and events planned for 2012, and details of these will be posted as soon as they are available.
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