• Wednesday 26 Mar 2025
  • 1pm - 2pm
  • In person in the LPP Board Room N.5.01 or via ZOOM
  • Dr Durgeshree Raman
  • dee.raman@waikato.ac.nz
  • Free

In this talk Her Honour Judge Inglis will explore whether the system is broken, and if so, how should it be fixed? Is support for lay litigants part of the answer?

The Waikato Public Law and Policy Research Unit would like to invite you to Her Honour Judge Inglis' talk on Employment Relationship Dispute Resolution.

Chief Judge Christina Inglis was sworn in as Kaiwhakawā o Te Kōti Take Mahi o Aotearoa ǀ the Employment Court of New Zealand, in 2011 and appointed as Kaiwhakawā Matua ǀ Chief Judge, on 10 July 2017.

Chief Judge Inglis holds an LLM (Hons) from Victoria University and an MA (Hons) from Canterbury University. She was a Crown Counsel at Crown Law for many years, with a primary focus on civil litigation, public law and employment law. Most recently she led the Human Rights Team at Crown Law.

While in practice Chief Judge Inglis appeared in most Courts and Tribunals. She was formerly on the Advisory Board of the New Zealand Centre for Human Rights Law, Policy and Practice; is a member of the Board of the Access to Justice Advisory Group, a joint initiative of the Chief Justice and Chief Executive of the Ministry of Justice; was Chair of Te Awa Tuia Tangata, the Heads of Bench judicial diversity committee, for three years; and is a member of the Heads of Bench Conduct Advisory Committee. In 2023 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by Te Herenga Waka ǀ Victoria University in recognition of her contribution to the law.