Two people have been named the inaugural winners of the New Zealand Law Foundation’s Doctoral Scholarship (in Law) for 2011. Bridgette Toy-Cronin will study unrepresented litigants in New Zealand civil courts at Otago University and Aline Jäckel will research issues around an ecologically sustainable legal regime of marine biological ... More about Two Law Doctoral Scholarships awarded in 2011.
Auckland University senior lecturer Christopher Hare was awarded New Zealand’s premier legal research award, the New Zealand Law Foundation’s 2011 International Research Fellowship, on 17 November 2011. His research will be published in a book, entitled Banks in the Conflict of Laws, and will cover legal issues arising from international banking ... More about Christopher Hare receives 2011 International Research Fellowship.
David Turner, winner of this year’s New Zealand Law Foundation Cleary Memorial Prize, has packed more into his 24 years than most people do in a lifetime, but he’s only just getting started. A straight-A law student, David is a Supreme Court judge’s clerk with a raft of ... More about David Turner wins 2011 Cleary Memorial Prize.
Husband and wife Andrew Geddis and Jacinta Ruru have both received awards to research different aspects of law at United States universities. Professor Geddis, who obtained an LLM from Harvard University as a 1997 Fulbright New Zealand Graduate Student, has been awarded a Fulbright New Zealand Senior Scholar Award to conduct ... More about Research awards for Otago University academics.
Professor John Dawson and Professor Bruce Harris, both Otago graduates, are having Doctor of Laws (LLD) degrees by examination conferred on 17 December 2011. This is a most unusual occurrence. In the history of Otago University only three have been conferred previously. As a University of New Zealand Degree (before 1962) the LLD ... More about Rare conferral of LLD degrees at Otago University.
Working to make New Zealand a fairer place and achieving “improvements in the lives of people” are among the aims newly-named Rhodes Scholar Max Harris has in his sights. Max’s career ambition is to become a leader in New Zealand law, contributing to constitutional debate and developing a public ... More about Rhodes Scholar Max Harris aims to be NZ law leader.
Dr Nicole Moreham, a former Cleary Memorial Prizewinner, has become the first legal academic to receive a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship. A senior law lecturer at Victoria University, Dr Moreham is putting the scholarship money towards writing a book setting out the protection of privacy in private law. The book addresses ... More about Nicole Moreham awarded Rutherford Discovery Fellowship.
Lower Hutt barrister Greg King has been selected as the Fellow from New Zealand for Eisenhower Fellowship’s 2012 Multi Nation Programme. Mr King is one of 22 fellows who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in their fields, selected from a pool of 155 nations. The fellowship was established during the presidency of Dwight ... More about Greg King Wins Eisenhower Fellowship.
A 2010 Cleary Memorial Prize winner, Rebecca Elvin, has won a Sir Peter Blake Emerging Leaders Award. She was one of six emerging leaders award winners announced on 1 July 2011. Rebecca was a founder of the Not Just Us Trust and organiser of the 'Just Law: Minds Wide Open' conference for young ... More about Rebecca Elvin wins Sir Peter Blake Emerging Leaders Award.
This information is a guide to awards, scholarships and prizes which are available to members of the New Zealand legal profession. Awards made to students are not included (with the exception of New Zealand Law Foundation prizes). CLANZ-LexisNexis In-House Lawyer of the Year Awarded by: CLANZ Section of New Zealand ... More about Awards and Prizes for New Zealand legal profession.
Alternative dispute professionals and law firms were acknowledged at the inaugural LEADR NZ National Awards event held in Auckland on 16 June 2011. Hosted by Bell Gully, the event brought together a wide range of professionals from the mediation community. Warren Sowerby, of Bankside Chambers, won the award for the most creative ... More about LEADR NZ Inaugural National Awards, 2011.
One more Ethel Benjamin scholar than usual has been named in 2011. The three 2011 recipients of the New Zealand Law Foundation award are Charlotte Leslie, Anna Crowe and Natalie Coates. Charlotte Leslie graduated from Auckland University in 2007 with an LLB (Hons) and a Bachelor of Health Sciences. After spending two years ... More about Three Ethel Benjamin scholars named in 2011.
Winners of the 2011 CLANZ awards were announced at the CLANZ conference in Napier from 12-13 May 2011. CLANZ is a section of the New Zealand Law Society. Charles Spillane, the general counsel and general manager, corporate affairs at Auckland International Airport Ltd, is the 2011 CLANZ-LexisNexis In-house Lawyer of the Year. In ... More about CLANZ In-House Lawyer Awards 2011.
Otago University law lecturer Jacinta Ruru, described as “an outstanding emerging scholar with a bright future ahead of her”, has been awarded the Rowheath Trust Award and Carl Smith Medal for best researcher in the university in the first years of their career. “Jacinta’s work is very innovative and ... More about Jacinta Ruru wins Rowheath Trust Award.
The following scholarships and prizes are offered annually by the New Zealand Law Foundation: New Zealand Law Foundation International Research Fellowship This award, worth up to $125,000 a year, assists study in New Zealand or overseas aimed at making a significant contribution to our law. It is open to anyone with ... More about New Zealand Law Foundation legal scholarships and prizes.
Professor Campbell McLachlan QC has received New Zealand’s premier legal research award, the 2010 NZ Law Foundation International Research Fellowship. The award was made at the Law Foundation’s Annual Awards Dinner on 24 November 2010. Worth up to $125,000 annually, it enables recipients to study a defined aspect of the law in ... More about 2010 Law Foundation International Research Fellowship.
The Law Foundation’s Cleary Memorial Prize for 2010 has been won by Rebecca Elvin and Matthew Windsor. Both were admitted as barristers and solicitors in 2009 and both are overseas in 2010 undertaking masters degrees. The New Zealand Law Foundation presented the prizes at its fifth Annual Awards dinner in Wellington on 24 ... More about Joint winners for 2010 Cleary Memorial Prize.
Several recipients of the Law Foundation’s Cleary Memorial Prize have gone on to distinguished legal careers, including former Court of Appeal Judge David Baragwanath and Supreme Court Judge Sir Andrew Tipping. Their selection, and others besides, vindicates the criteria that recipients give the “most promise of service to and ... More about Cleary Memorial Prize history.
Sarah Keast and Lyndon Rogers from Canterbury University won the Mahony Cup at the 2010 New Zealand Law Foundation National Family Law Moot. Four teams contested the 2010 event, hosted by Otago University’s law faculty in October. Shieana Ali and Rosemary Hunt represented Auckland University; Fiona Nelson and Almiro Clere, Otago ... More about 2010 National Family Law Moot.
The CLANZ 2010 Award Winners were announced at the gala dinner of the CLANZ 2010 Conference in Rotorua on 14 May. CLANZ-Bell Gully Young Corporate Lawyer of the Year Nominees have less than five years’ in-house experience (and less than 10 years’ practising overall), and will have made an outstanding contribution to their employer ... More about CLANZ Awards 2010.
Oamaru lawyer George Berry was presented the 2009 NZ LAW Kerry Goldstone Memorial Award for outstanding voluntary community service at NZ LAW’s Annual General Meeting on 2 October 2009. Kerry Goldstone ‘s widow, Margaret, presented what will be the last of five awards to George Berry, who is senior partner in Berry & ... More about NZ LAW Goldstone Award 2009.
Triple graduate Tamina Cunningham is the inaugural recipient of the Judge Karina Williams Prize in Law. The annual $1,500 prize has been created in memory of Manukau District Court Judge Williams, who died on 2 September 2005, just days short of her 43rd birthday. In addition to the financial award, the prize consists ... More about Judge Karina Williams Prize 2009.
University of Waikato law student Maria Collett-Bevan has won a summer internship at the New Zealand Europe Business Council (NZEBC). The internship, which runs for 12 weeks from November 2010 to January 2011, aims to establish a greater understanding of the level of EU member state company subsidiaries with a base in New ... More about NZEBC internship to Waikato.
The inaugural Maori Law Awards, celebrating Maori legal success across all areas of legal practice, were made at Te Hunga Roia Huia Maori o Aotearoa Hui a Tau earlier this month. At the awards tribute was paid to the late Jolene Patuawa-Tuilave, the Co-President of Te Hunga Roia, who died ... More about Maori Law Awards 2010.
Otago law students continued their winning ways in national competitions held during the New Zealand Law Students Association (NZLSA) conference at Dunedin in September 2010. Held at the Faculty of Law, University of Otago, the competitions were in mooting, negotiation, client interviewing and witness examination. The Otago team, Alice Osman and ... More about NZLSA competitions 2010.
University of Canterbury law lecturer Dr Debra Wilson has won the 2009 Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal from her alma mater, Monash University, Melbourne, for her thesis, “The legality of human cloning: an analysis of the legal arguments for and against a ban on reproductive cloning from a eugenics/human rights viewpoint”. ... More about Debra Wilson wins Monash Medal.
David McLauchlan, Professor of Law at Victoria University of Wellington, has won the Sir Ian Barker Published Article Award for the best article at the 2009 Legal Research Foundation Awards. Professor McLauchlan’s award-winning work, “Contract Interpretation: What Is It About?” and an earlier article were cited by Lord Hoffman in ... More about Sir Ian Barker award 2009.
Peter Watts, Associate Dean at Auckland University’s Law Faculty, has won the JF Northey Memorial Book Award for his 2009 textbook, Directors’ Powers and Duties. The Award is bestowed each year by the Legal Research Foundation to recognise outstanding legal scholarship. It recognizes the best monograph or text published in ... More about JF Northey Book Award 2009.
Three law students – Elizabeth Chan, Max Harris and John-Luke Day – were among the 35 A-grade students from New Zealand universities who were presented with Freemasons scholarships in May 2010, totalling $250,000. The awards were presented by HRH The Duke of Gloucester, who is also the founding Chancellor of the University of Worcester, during ... More about Freemasons Scholarships 2010.
Wellington lawyer Rebecca Rose has won a prestigious William Georgetti Scholarship. Several of these scholarships are awarded each year for post-graduate study in a field that will benefit the social, cultural and economic development of New Zealand. Rebecca has been awarded up to $45,000 to do a one-year master’s degree ... More about William Georgetti Scholarship.
Margaret Wilson DCNZM, professor of law and public policy at the University of Waikato and former Speaker of Parliament, has been awarded the inaugural Link Visiting Professorship to the UK. Sponsored by the NZ-UK Link Foundation, the three-month visiting professorship will begin in October 2010 at the School of Advanced Study, ... More about Link Visiting Professor 2010.
Sarah Nolan and Adrienne Anderson are the 2010 NZ Law Foundation Ethel Benjamin scholarship winners. The two women lawyers each received $25,000 to assist with post-graduate study. Sarah Nolan will study for an LLM at the University College London later in 2010. She will further her interest in resource management and environmental law. ... More about Ethel Benjamin scholarships 2010.