Events

Welcome to the Brown Bag series for 2025.  The Brown Bag series of seminars is open to all but aimed predominantly at less experienced practitioners.  The aim of the series is to enable such practitioners to learn from the judiciary and senior members of the profession about topical procedural and substantive issues in the law.  This year’s offering follows that format. The LRF has arranged for three senior members of the judiciary and two senior members of the profession to share their knowledge.  The seminars will involve acknowledged subject-matter experts talking about:  the decision to prosecute, The Insolvency List, The work of the Court of Appeal, International Criminal tribunals and The Duty Judge's list.  We encourage firms to support their more junior solicitors to attend these seminars. The seminars will be held over the lunch period of 1pm to 2pm in an informal setting at one of five leading law firms in Auckland.

In the MASTERCLASS™ series leading commentators who regularly contribute to the New Zealand Law Review provide updates on recent developments in their specialist fields. The last few years have seen a proliferation of decisions under the Evidence Act 2006 from the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. In this MASTERCLASS™ Associate Professor Scott Optican and Jack Oliver-Hood will focus on those judgments most significant to the application and development of evidence law in civil and criminal proceedings. They will also discuss recent recommendations for amending the Evidence Act 2006 arising out of the 2024 third (and final) review of that legislation by the New Zealand Law Commission| Te Aka Matua o te Ture.