Mentions of Auckland District Law Society in New Zealand Parliament debates
Auckland District Law Society has been mentioned in 16 parliamentary debates since November 2005.
Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Bill
In Committee 22 Mar 2011
HILARY CALVERT ... some iwi to override the laws of the land in respect of resource management around the coast of New Zealand. The Auckland District Law Society said as much in its submission on the bill, when it stated that the bill gave Māori unjustifiable legal privilege. That ...
Legislation Bill
First Reading 3 Aug 2010
SIMON BRIDGES ... the case, and in fact quite often it has not been the case. Laws are in dusty old tomes in the libraries of the Auckland District Law Society, the Wellington District Law Society, but perhaps not in the Tauranga District Law Society—
Sentencing (Vehicle Confiscation) Amendment Bill, Summary Proceedings (Vehicle Seizure) Amendment Bill, Privacy Amendment Bill - Third Readings
Third Readings 21 Oct 2009
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... was absolutely confident that the courts would enforce this provision. She is a lawyer, and once was president of the Auckland District Law Society. She knows that no one can guarantee what judges will do. Their job is to interpret the law. The other difficulty we ...
Immigration Bill
In Committee 17 Sep 2009
KEITH LOCKE ... been described as ‘makeweight’ and held not to justify detention without trial in the absence of other reasons:”. The Auckland District Law Society said that the current definition, which includes the phrase “significant impact on New Zealand’s international reputation”...
Labour
Questions for Oral Answer—Answers on Behalf of Minister of Labour 27 Aug 2009
Carol Beaumont How does the Minister reconcile her statement to the Auckland District Law Society that her reason for not attending a National Distribution Union executive meeting was diary clashes, with a message to ...
Appointments - Judicial Conduct Commissioner
Judicial Conduct Commissioner 21 Jul 2009
CHARLES CHAUVEL ... Conduct Commissioner was Ian Haynes, a past president of the New Zealand Law Society and a former president of the Auckland District Law Society. Mr Haynes is a well respected lawyer in New Zealand and internationally, and is the architect of a new model for the ...
General Debate 23 Jul 2008
JUDITH COLLINS ... simply render an account and it gets paid. I have never, in my 20-odd years as a lawyer and in my time with the Auckland District Law Society and the New Zealand Law Society, once come across a situation where a barrister’s job is to ring up people in Monaco and ...
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON ... account. But as my colleague Judith Collins, who was a member of the Law Society—in fact, she was president of the Auckland District Law Society—said, barristers cannot hold trust accounts. So the money had to have gone somewhere else. I put it to members of the ...
General Debate 12 Sep 2007
KATE WILKINSON ... this country. While this is happening, Rome is still burning. The justice system is in disarray. Only last week the Auckland District Law Society said this: “Of note were his concerns at a justice system, particularly in regard to civil work, that is almost grinding ...
Family Courts Matters Bill
First Reading 23 Aug 2007
JUDITH COLLINS ... used in terms of getting legal aid. I have seen that from my time when I was on the legal aid subcommittee of the Auckland District Law Society approving legal aid applications. I have seen applications made where I felt that they were, in fact, being made on the ...
Crimes (Repeal of Seditious Offences) Amendment Bill
First Reading 14 Jun 2007
RON MARK ... members of the House who are most highly regarded for their legal backgrounds read their speeches directly out of the Auckland District Law Society issue No. 20. There was nothing original. It was all written by someone else, and it was read out, virtually word for ...
RON MARK ... paragraph by paragraph. At least Christopher Finlayson varied from the paragraph by paragraph summation from the Auckland District Law Society—some originality was injected. But Dr Worth? My golly, what are we paying him for? Is it to come to this House and read ...
RON MARK ... to go to a select committee, but we give no guarantees. Indeed, here is the great irony. Every example given by the Auckland District Law Society and parroted by the previous two National speakers actually says that those people were charged for inciting violence, ...
Immigration
Immigration, Minister—Ministerial Discretion 10 Oct 2006
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... indicating that repatriation to Iran is inappropriate. I also quote the words of one Simon Laurent, convenor of the Auckland District Law Society’s immigration refugee committee, who stated in the New Zealand Herald today: “He [Mr Yadegary] has been through the ...
Justice
Legal Aid—Changes 21 Apr 2010
Hon SIMON POWER ... administration relating to grants of legal aid, and the extension of the Public Defence Service. The president of the Auckland District Law Society has also welcomed the changes, stating “The society supports any efforts to improve access to justice for disadvantaged ...
Legal Aid—Access to Justice 26 Jul 2006
Christopher Finlayson How can the Minister justify the statement made by the Legal Services Agency in the Auckland District Law Society’s Law News of 21 July 2006 that the agency is not aware of real supply problems generally for legal aid, when in Blenheim,...
Christopher Finlayson I seek leave to table issue 27 of Law News from the Auckland District Law Society, dated 21 July 2006, which refers to the Legal Services Agency survey.
Budget Debate 18 May 2006
RON MARK ... was first made by a professor of law at the University of Canterbury, Professor Philip Joseph, in an article on the Auckland District Law Society’s website. Professor Joseph noted: “This election the realisation has finally dawned that, under MMP, we no longer ...
Urgent Debates - David Parker—Resignation from Executive
David Parker—Resignation from Executive 21 Mar 2006
Dr DON BRASH ... find on the facts that the defendant is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”, or as Gary Gotlieb, President of the Auckland District Law Society, has noted: “Prima facie means there is a sufficient case for the accused to answer.” In other words, establishing a ...
Lawyers and Conveyancers Bill
In Committee 28 Feb 2006
Dr RICHARD WORTH ... in terms of membership, as distinct from commitment—and others are less strong. First, if I take as an example the Auckland District Law Society, quite clearly the impacts of this bill on that society will be significant—I am not saying that they will be bad, but ...
CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON ... provided in a very variegated way because of the different sizes of the law societies. As Dr Worth has said, the Auckland District Law Society—comprising over half of the number of practitioners in this country—has been able to provide an excellent service to the ...
Dr WAYNE MAPP ... of one of New Zealand’s largest law firms. He is on the Council of Legal Education, and was vice-chair of the Auckland District Law Society many years past. Judith Collins was vice-president of the New Zealand Law Society. [Interruption] The Minister in the ...