JUSTICE IN THE ROUND
Perspectives from Custom and Culture, Rights, and Dispute Resolution
Te Piringa – Faculty of Law, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Monday 18 April 2011
7.30-8.30
8.30-9.00
9.00-10.30
Registration
Powhiri – Te Piringa – Faculty of Law, Courtyard
Opening
Room
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The Governor-General, the Right Honourable Sir Anand
Satyanand
Plenary Panel – Perspectives on Justice
Chair: Professor Brad Morse, Dean, Te Piringa – Faculty of Law
The Right Honourable Margaret Wilson, DCNZM, Professor of
Law and Public Policy, Te Piringa – Faculty of Law
The Honourable Justice Eddie Durie, New Zealand High Court
(retired)
Paul Chartrand, Indigenous Peoples’ Counsel (I.P.C.) of the
Indigenous Bar Association of Canada
10.30-11.00
Morning tea
11.00-12.30
Parallel Sessions I
Custom and Culture
Chair: Matiu Dickson
 Matiu Dickson, “Māori Mainstream Systems of Dispute
Resolution”
 Nin Tomas, Paul Meredith, Lucy Kapa “Nga Tikanga Mate
Research Project”
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Indigenous Peoples – Reconciliation
Chair: Phil Chan
 Julie Cassidy, “Political Responses to the Stolen Generations”
 Justice Harry Slade, “State of the Nation, Nations of the
State”
 Stephen Winter, “Legitimacy, Citizenship, and State Redress”
Treaty of Waitangi
Chair: Robert Joseph
 Robert Joseph, “Sculpting Permafrost Rights – The
Indigenous Right to Develop Treaty and Aboriginal Rights in
New Zealand and Canada”
 Audrey Sharp, “Treaty of Waitangi Settlement of Māori
Fishing Claims”
 Linda Te Aho, “Indigenous Rights and Aspirations for Justice
and Treaty of Waitangi Claims Processes”
12.30-1.30
Lunch
1.30-3.00
Parallel Sessions II
Health
Chair: Gay Morgan
 Phil Chan, “Death as Liberty: Exploring a Constitutional Right
to Physician-Assisted Suicide in Singapore through
Comparative Jurisprudence”
 Gay Morgan, “Thou Shall Not Tell: Would a Therapeutic
Approach Enable Children to Break their Silences in Safety?”
 Rogena Sterling , “Why Informed Consent Doesn’t Work:
Intersex Surgeries and the Failure to Get Informed Consent”
Education
Chair: Matiu Dickson
 Keaka Hemi, “Kamehameha Schools, UNDRIP and the Keiki:
What Federal and International Law Say About the Right of
the Native Hawaiian Child in Education”
 Ashli Akins, “Andean Traditional Knowledge and Steps
Towards Cultural Revitalization through Community-Based
Development”
 John Hopkins, “Missing the Point? Law, Functionalism and
Legal Education in New Zealand”
3.00-3.30
Afternoon Tea
3.30-4.30
Keynote Address
Chair: Professor Al Gillespie, Te Piringa – Faculty of Law
Dispute Resolution – Dame Hazel Genn, Dean of Laws,
University College, London
4.45
Cocktail Function, kindly sponsored by Norris Ward McKinnon, Foyer,
Academy of Performing Arts
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9.00-10.30
Tuesday 19 April 2011
Parallel Sessions III
Criminal Justice I
Chair: Wayne Rumbles
 Thalia Anthony, “Criminal Sentencing of Australian
Indigenous Offenders”
 Simon Connell, “What is the Place of Corrective Justice In
Criminal Justice?”
 Bence Takacs, “Maori and Romani Juvenile Justice – A
Community Based Approach (A comparative study between
NZ and Hungary)”
Indigenous Peoples – Rights
Chair: Professor Brad Morse
 Paul Chartrand, “Towards Justice and Reconciliation:
Principles of the Constitution of Canada & Indigenous
Peoples”
 Claudia Masoni, “Indigenous Peoples’ right to SelfDetermination”
 Valmaine Toki, “Indigenous Rights – hollow rights?
Property Ownership
Chair: Barry Barton
 Barry Barton, “Justice in the Geoid: Mineral Exploration
Activity, Indigenous Peoples, and Land Ownership”
 Milena Stefanova, “One Ship, Many Captains: Pressures on
Customary Land in Vanuatu”
 Lynda Tabuya, “I-Taukei Land Rights in Fiji: The Role of the
Law in Achieving Justice within the Matagali”
10.30-11.00
Morning Tea
11.00-12.00
Keynote address
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Chair: Associate Professor Kate Diesfeld, Te Piringa – Faculty of Law
Rights – Professor Margaret Bedggood, Former Chief of the
Human Rights Commission, NZ, Visiting Fellow, Kellogg
College, University of Oxford
12.00—1.30
Parallel Sessions IV
Maori and the Criminal Justice System
Chair: Brenda Midson
 Kim Workman, “Redemption denied: Aspects of Maori OverRepresentation in the Criminal Justice System”
 Wayne Rumbles & Tawhana Ball, “Māori Crime Prevention:
Where Are We At?”
Domestic Violence
Chair: Ruth Busch
 Ruth Busch, “Invisibilising Risk: The Judicial use of Legal
Fictions and Psychobabble in the Parenting Order Cases
Involving Domestic Violence”
 Phillip Rossiter, “A Thorn in the Flesh that Cannot Fester:
Habermas and the Domestic Violence courts”
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1.30-2.30
Lunch
2.30-3.30
Plenary Panel – States’ obligations to respect,
protect and ensure the rights of society’s most
marginalised and vulnerable members
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Chair: Gay Morgan, Te Piringa – Faculty of Law
Sylvia Bell, Human Rights Commission
Associate Professor Kate Diesfeld, Te Piringa – Faculty of Law,
“Is New Zealand Realising the Vision of the United Nations
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities?
7.30-10.30
9.00-10.30
Conference Dinner – Academy of Performing Arts
Wednesday 20 April 2011
Parallel Sessions V
Dispute Resolution I
Chair: Trevor Daya-Winterbottom
 Sadeq Bigdeli, “Internationalism in New Zealand Courts: how
far should we go?”
 Trevor Daya-Winterbottom, “Specialist Courts, Human Rights
and Property”
 Thomas Gibbons, “Jurisdiction, Justice and the Tenancy
Tribunal: Challenges of Public and Private Law”
Criminal Justice II
Chair: Brenda Midson
 Wayne Rumbles, “Virtual Theft – Crime or Non-Crime?
 Brenda Midson and Claire Breen, “Crime and (Corporal)
Punishment – is the Criminal Justice System Protecting the
Rights of Children?”
10.30-11.00
Morning Tea
11.00-12.30
Parallel Sessions VI
Dispute Resolution II
Chair: Les Arthur
 Les Arthur, “Reforms to the Civil Justice System: What’s
Justice Got to Do With it?”
 Daniel Becker, “The Neutrality of Mediators in the Context of
Domestic Violence”
Social Justice
Chair: Juliet Chevalier-Watts
 Juliet Chevalier-Watts, “Charitable Trusts and Political
Activities”
 John Horsley and Jill Jones, “Sustainability in Aotearoa New
Zealand – a Dislocated Agenda”
Indigenous Peoples Rights – International Perspectives
Chair: Linda Te Aho
 Margaret Stephenson, “Consultation and Negotiation with
Indigenous Peoples in Canada and Australia”
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12.30-1.30
Brendan Loizou, “Access to Justice, the Rule of Law and
Indigenous People: Are Their Rights being Protected”
Yogeswaran Subramaniam, “Rights Denied: Orang Asli and
rights to Participate in Decision-Making in Peninsular
Malaysia”
Keynote Address
Chair: Rob Joseph, Te Piringa – Faculty of Law
Custom and Culture – His Honour Justice Joseph (Joe)
Williams, New Zealand High Court – “The Justice
Roundabout”
1.30
2.00
Closing remarks
Conference closes
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