Our immediate objective is to halt the recommendations arising out of the independent review panel process. The panel’s report includes recommended ‘reforms’ that would:
In order to have the recommendations of the independent review panel scrapped, we are asking for your generous support of our effort, with your donations being easily made and gratefully accepted here.
We intend to launch High Court judicial review proceedings as to the independent review panel report process and such actions that the NZLS takes in furtherance of the report’s recommendations.
The Committee believes that the report process is clearly reviewable, in that the NZLS:
Everyone is very welcome to join us in this important cause. The NZLS’s action against the profession affects not only lawyers, but also people who use their services - and society in general. We know that you want your lawyer to be unconflicted in representing your interests – rather than being bound to also adhere to ‘treaty principles’ which might well conflict with your interests.
Gary Judd KC
Gary Judd engages in litigation and advice, principally in areas of civil and commercial law, administrative law, copyright and other intellectual property, and taxation. He has had numerous appearances in the courts of New Zealand including many in the Privy Council whilst it was New Zealand’s final appellate court.
He was the Chairman of the ASB Bank from 1988 to 2011 and also chaired the Ports of Auckland for three years. In January 2012 he concluded a three-year term as a New Zealand Prime Ministerial appointee to the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) where he became a co-chair of the ABAC Advisory Group on APEC Financial System Capacity Building.
Gary has written diligently to raise concern amongst the legal profession about the highly-flawed process NZLS has set in motion. Several of his opinion pieces can be found here.
Stephen Franks
Stephen Franks is director of Franks Ogilvie, a law firm specialising, inter alia, in Administrative Law, has served on several boards and was a member of Parliament for the Act Party for six years.
He’s been a member of the Securities Commission, the Council of the IOD, and the NZ Stock Exchange’s Market Surveillance Panel. In 2009/10 he served on the Minister of Energy’s expert advisory group on the electricity market structure.
He advised the New Zealand Dairy Board on the route to the creation of Fonterra, the Ministry of Commerce in drafting the Electricity Industry Reform Act, Telecom New Zealand during its privatisation and initial international public offering and the World Bank on legal aspects of corporatisation and privatisation.
Everyone is very welcome to join us in this important cause.
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