He became a judge of the High Court in 2001 and a judge of the Court of Appeal in January 2004. He was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the High Court in 1977 and became a partner with the firm Chapman Tripp in 1984. Justice Mark O'Regan graduated from the Victoria University of Wellington in 1977. In 2014 Justice Glazebrook was made a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the judiciary. Since becoming a judge, Justice Glazebrook has served as a member of the Advisory Council of Jurists for the Asia-Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (from 2002 to 2010) and from 2007 to 2012 chaired the Institute of Judicial Studies, the body responsible for judicial education in New Zealand. She served as the President of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association in 1998. Before being appointed to the Bench, Justice Glazebrook was a partner in a large commercial law firm and a member of various commercial boards and government advisory committees. Justice Susan Glazebrook is a judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand/Te Kōti Mana Nui and the President of the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ). Pōwhiri and Ceremonial Sitting Chief Justice.Full biography Chief Justice Helen Winkelmann.Justice Winkelmann’s speeches are available on the Courts of New Zealand website. As Chief Justice she retains a keen interest in judicial education.
She is the New Zealand representative on the Board of the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration and from November 2012 – November 2019 was Chair of the Institute of Judicial Studies – the body responsible for providing continued education to judges. In 2004 she was appointed as a High Court Judge followed by Chief High Court Judge in 2010 and was appointed to the Court of Appeal in 2015.
Justice Winkelmann remained at the firm until 2001 when she began practice as a barrister sole specialising in insolvency, commercial litigation, and medical disciplinary litigation. In 1988, she became the first female partner and one of the youngest ever in the firm’s then 117-year history. She is the second Chief Justice since introduction of the Supreme Court Act 2004 which ended appeals to the Privy Council.Ī graduate from Auckland University, Justice Winkelmann began work as a law clerk with Auckland firm Nicholson Gribbin (later Phillips Fox, now DLA Piper). The Rt Hon Helen Winkelmann (GNZM) was sworn in as New Zealand’s 13th Chief Justice on 14 March 2019. The Right Honourable Helen Winkelmann, Chief Justice (Hon Justice Joe Williams, Hon Justice Susan Glazebrook, Right Honourable Helen Winkelmann, Chief Justice, Hon Justice Mark O'Regan, Hon Justice Stephen Kós, Hon Justice Ellen France)
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