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*2024 Cleary Prize Winner Announced

The New Zealand Law Foundation congratulates Rhianna Morar on winning this year’s NZ Law Foundation Cleary Memorial Prize. This is a prestigious award given to a young barrister or solicitor who shows outstanding future promise in the legal profession

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*2024 Ethel Benjamin Scholarship Recipients

The New Zealand Law Foundation along with Universities New Zealand Te Pōkai Tara are delighted to announce that Madeleine (Maddy) Nash and Hannah Yang have been awarded the 2024 New Zealand Law Foundation Ethel Benjamin Scholarship.

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*2023 Cleary Prize Winners Announced

The New Zealand Law Foundation congratulates Oliver Fredrickson on winning this year’s NZ Law Foundation Cleary Memorial Prize. This is a prestigious award given to a young barrister or solicitor who shows outstanding future promise in the legal profession

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*2023 Ethel Benjamin Scholarship Recipient

The New Zealand Law Foundation congratulates the Ethel Benjamin Scholarship recipient for 2023, Jessica Fenton. Jessica graduated in 2019 with a BA and LLB from the University of Auckland – Waipapa Taumata Rau.

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*2022 Ethel Benjamin Scholarship – video

We have just uploaded the video recording of our 25th Annual NZ Law Foundation Ethel Benjamin Commemorative Address by Judge Coral Shaw to our You Tube channel. Click here to view.

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*Removing Disabling Experiences: a vision for the future of our people

In 2017 Warren Forster won the Law Foundation’s prestigious International Research Fellowship with a bold aim to work out how to realise Sir Owen Woodhouse’s original vision of an ACC scheme that does not discriminate based on the cause of … Continue reading

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*EDS releases major report calling for oceans reform

The Environmental Defence Society (EDS) has published a report on the future of Aotearoa New Zealand’s oceans management system, which was funded in part by the New Zealand Law Foundation. The Breaking Wave was launched by Minister of Conservation Hon … Continue reading

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*2022 Ethel Benjamin Scholarship winners announced

Finding ways to use litigation to remedy bias in public decision-making and provide greater recognition of tikanga Maori are the aims of the two recipients of this year’s New Zealand Law Foundation Ethel Benjamin Scholarships. The scholarships, for outstanding women … Continue reading

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*Making Gang Laws in a Panic

New research released today from Jarrod Gilbert, University of Canterbury, examines New Zealand’s most significant legislative thrust targeting gangs, which occurred in the mid 1990s. It examines the efficacy of the gang laws by measuring the political intent of the … Continue reading

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*Important Charities Law Reform report released

The 2019 New Zealand Law Foundation International Research Fellowship Te Karahipi Rangahau a Taiao awarded to Wellington Barrister, Sue Barker, was dedicated to the question “What does a world-leading framework of charities law look like?” with the final report, entitled … Continue reading

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