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.
For more than a decade from 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor had a strong claim to being the most powerful woman in America. She was the first woman to sit on the US Supreme Court from 1981 who strove for public consensus and consistently voted against repealing Roe v Wade. Sandra Day O’Connor, US Supreme Court judge, was born on March 26, 1930. She died of complications from dementia on December 1, 2023, aged 93. This has drawn from her obituary published in The Times, Saturday December 2, 2023.
Voters in a national referendum have overwhelmingly rejected the Labour government’s proposal to create a permanent body for indigenous people to advise parliament. The defeat is a blow for those looking to close the gap between Australia’s indigenous people and the rest of the population. Anthony Albanese, the Australian prime minister, said the result should not divide Australians.
As I write this, the army reservist who opened fire in a bowling alley and then at a bar in Lewiston, Maine, killing 18 people, was found dead. I have close family members who live not far from the scene of the massacre. Like many people, I breathed a sigh of relief tonight knowing that Robert Card is no longer a threat to anyone. He certainly was no terrorist. When tragedy strikes, we should be careful about how we describe it. Sanctifying the word terrorism as an obvious motive for every mass killing was a significant mistake made by Americans and their government after 9/11. The world is crawling with plenty of real terrorists, but we should pause before we reach for a word whose incantation can summon powerful and illiberal forces from within our institutions — and ourselves.
With great coaching by Jeff Maka, along with Tee’s (Tevita Eliesa) ongoing support, our MOJ Rugby Team has been training tirelessly to represent our ministry with pride, passion, and sportsmanship on the rugby field. Their positive development, dedication and success is not limited to the field; they also carry that same energy and enthusiasm back to the workplace and into their community.
You’ll find at the link below, the summary of the best thinking of a number of court professionals, with different subsets having reviewed many different possible scenarios of the future. This report highlights recent assessments and compares NACM assessments with those of the overall group. We are encouraged by the survey’s relevance even as changes are continuing to unfold in real time.
Julie-Anne Kincade KC and Emma Priest are delighted to announce the launch of Augusta Chambers from 1 July 2023. Having outgrown the Blackstone Chambers space, the barristers of Blackstone are moving to a new space at 115 Queen Street.
