Registration will be open in the foyer of Waitemata Ballroom, Lobby Level, Langham Hotel.

Welcome Reception and Kapa Haka display

Rt Hon Dame Sian Elias, GNZM
Chief Justice of New Zealand

Registration will be open in the foyer of the Waitemata Ballroom – Lobby Level.

Powhiri and Conference opening

Ceremonial Māori welcome by the local iwi and court staff followed by welcome speeches and reply on behalf of guests

Official Photo

Access to Justice: Challenges for our region

Chair: 
Rt Hon Dame Sian Elias GNZM
Chief Justice of New Zealand

Panel:
To be confirmed

MORNING TEA

Unrepresented litigants

Chair:
Judge Jan-Marie Doogue
Chief District Court Judge of
New Zealand Speaker:

Speaker:
Hon Chief Justice Marilyn Warren
Supreme Court of Victoria
Australia

Commentators:
Hon Chief Justice Gordon Ward
Tuvalu

Hon Chief Justice Sir John Muria
Kiribati

LUNCH

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Chair:
Judge Colin Doherty
District Court of New Zealand

Speaker:
Hon Justice Ambeng Kandakasi,
Supreme and National Court of Justice, Papua New Guinea

Commentator:
Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood
Guam

AFTERNOON TEA

Pacific Executive Council Session

Chair:
Hon Chief Justice Patu Sapolu
Supreme Court, Samoa

Home Hosting

A number of Court of Appeal and High Court Judges will welcome you and your partner into their home for a taste of New Zealand

Youth Justice

• Perspective on criminal culpability
• The adolescent brain
• Dealing with young offenders
• Court processes and sentencing
• Child complainants
• Child witnesses

Chair:
Judge Andrew Becroft
Principal Youth Court Judge of
New Zealand

Speakers:
Judge Heemi Taumaunu
District Court of New Zealand

Ms Lope Ginnen
Chair, Brainwave Trust,
New Zealand

MORNING TEA

Domestic Violence

Chair:
Hon Chief Justice Diana Bryant
Family Court of Australia

Speakers:
Judge Peter Boshier
Pacific Judicial Development
Programme Advisor
New Zealand

Judge Leilani Tuala-Warren
District Court of Samoa

Mr Cam Ronald
Programme Manager
Pacific Prevention of Domestic
Violence Programme at
New Zealand Police

Chief Magistrate Stephen Felix
Vanuatu

Auckland Excursion

Auckland Harbour Cruise with lunch on board

Cocktail Function

Hosted by His Excellency,
Lt Gen Rt Hon Sir Jerry Mateparae, GSZM, QSO
Governor-General of New Zealand and Lady Janine Mateparae at Government House.

DINNER

Own arrangements

Written constitutions, human rights and customary law

Chair: 
Hon Justice Susan Kiefel
High Court of Australia

Speakers:
Dr Alex Frame
Barrister of New Zealand and
Cook Islands and Legal Historian

The historical perspective:
‘King Pomare’s 1819 Code of Laws in Tahiti’

Professor Jennifer Corrin
University of Queensland
Australia

Hon Chief Justice Tom Weston
Cook Islands

Commentator:
Hon Justice Joe Williams
High Court of New Zealand

Appellate Courts of the Pacific

(a)  A regional final court of appeals for the Pacific

(b)  Support for existing appellate structures

Chair:
Hon Chief Justice Sir Albert Palmer
Solomon Islands

Speaker:
Hon Justice John Alexander Logan RFD,
Federal Court of Australia

Commentators:
Judge Richard Clifton
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Hon Chief Justice Arthur Ngiraklsong 
Palau

Open Forum

LUNCH

Judicial education and administration in the Pacific.

Pulling the threads together.

Chair:
Hon Justice Helen Winkelmann
Chief High Court Judge of
New Zealand

Panel:
Hon Consuelo Marshall
U.S. District Court

To be confirmed

Closing remarks

Rt Hon Dame Sian Elias, GNZM
Chief Justice of New Zealand

Conference dinner

Westhaven Room – Langham Hotel