Access to Justice Series 2025

Every year the Law faculty offers a series of events exploring equity (substantive equality).  This year, these events will be spread throughout the year rather than being confined to a Substantive Equality Month. 

The theme for this year’s series of events is Access to Justice: we will explore the barriers to accessing the justice system and ways in which access can be improved and made more equitable. This includes access to dispute resolution and grievance resolution institutions such as courts, tribunals and mediation, and access to legal information, advice and representation.

Event 1

Event 2

8 - 9 August 2025

LegalTechHackathon
Students can join us for the first New Zealand Legal Tech Hackathon organised by Center for Advancing Law and Tech Responsibly (ALTeR) & Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) at the University of Auckland, focused on developing innovative solutions to address the access to justice gap in our communities.

View the poster.

Event 3

13 August
5.30-6.30 pm,
followed by refreshments
Panel presentation by Alexandra Andhov and Matt Bartlett on Digital/Online Access to Justice Solutions: Opportunities and Challenges

Watch this space

Further events to come.  Planned topics include:

Event 4
Family Court delays and their impact
Event 5 Finnigan v Rugby Football Union at 40 – where are we at with public interest litigation?
Event 6 Community lawyering