A new report shows the "striking" disparity between men and women in the job - but what's behind it? First published by RNZ.
New Zealand’s justice system is “under considerable stress”, with not enough judges and courtrooms among a number of issues.
The propensity for AI systems to make mistakes and for humans to miss those mistakes has been on full display in the US legal system as of late. The follies began when lawyers—including some at prestigious firms—submitted documents citing cases that didn’t exist. Similar mistakes soon spread to other roles in the courts. In December, a Stanford professor submitted sworn testimony containing hallucinations and errors in a case about deepfakes, despite being an expert on AI and misinformation himself.
This is the fifth report in a series that started in 2014 and covers all salaried and fee-paid judicial office-holders in the three separate jurisdictions of England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
An interesting trial was heard at the Supreme Court in the United Kingdom this month. Miss Boudica from East Anglia, who also goes by the name of Boadicea, was charged with being a terrorist under Section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2000, a surprising legal move since it came into force 1,940 years after she died.
We were very heartened with some good news out of Afghanistan on 26 October 2021. The IAJ General Secretariat told us a humanitarian transit corridor for Afghan women, female judges, judges, and members of parliament and their families opened up. The work of the IAJ and IAWJ supported by what little effort we can muster means a lot.
Mistakes matter in law, even the smallest ones. What would happen if a small but substantively meaningful typographical error appeared in the earliest published version of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion and remained uncorrected for several decades in versions of the decision published by the two leading commercial companies and in several online databases?
You can help by making a donation, however small, to the emergency fund for Afghan Women Judges through NZAWJ. This fund will be managed together with IAWJ, with Susan Glazebrook as president, to help those who are evacuated and those who remain. Thank you to everyone who has generously donated already. Please continue to pass this on to brother and sister judges and lawyers who wish to help.
Written by Fiona Ey. While the global community struggles to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic, Samoa is embroiled in a constitutional crisis. The South Pacific nation is frequently lauded for its good governance and regional leadership. The current crisis, however, has exposed fault lines around race and identity that could significantly undermine Samoa’s democratic institutions and future development.
British judges on Hong Kong’s top court could withdraw in protest at Beijing’s latest crackdown, senior figures have warned. Lord Reed, president of the UK Supreme Court and one of ten British judges on the Hong Kong bench, has indicated to The Times that a decision will be made soon.
